trailer mechanic

mécanicien

yard driver

laborer

warehouse associate

Ocean Trailer

I feel valued and appreciated at Ocean Trailer.  Many surprises throughout my first year, like bi-weekly lunches for the entire team, a roof-top deck where BBQs happen, free golf shirts, jackets, caps, hoodies, etc...!  An onsite gym and enough time during the day to use it. 100% paid benefits as well, which is amazing!  

And, to celebrate a job well done employees at Ocean Trailer have the opportunity to go on a fishing trip at a lodge that has 4-star treatment for it's guests!  An experience that is very unique and amazing!

When you hit 5 years at Ocean Trailer, you are presented with a gold ring with a diamond, and every 5 years you receive another diamond in your ring!  I have never been with a company that celebrates long tenured employees like this! 

Top that off every 5 years you get a bonus week of paid vacation!!

Staff is amazing. Management is untrained, hates changes. Systems and processes are Super archaic!!! Toxic company culture!!! Owner is very caring and likes to recognize his employees but the reality is the company employs terrivle, untrained, management....which has resulted in a terrible, negative culture with management using fear as theor tactic to manage staff. Not an open minded conpany at all and management does not take kindly to new ideas or change! Everything is taken personally by management...they are very unprofessional and dated in their thinking and processes! Bot a place for people looking to grow and evolve! If money is your only concern and you just need a job...this is the place for you! 

Start my shift at 0600, check yard for misplaced trailers (trailers that clients would drop anywhere, instead of having to back up into correct stalls.[ some of the new drivers admit they don't know how to backup a 53' trailer]).
 I learned that if a client pays good money to the company, that some safety protocols will be over looked. (ie; glad hands will not release if trailer breaks away from tractor). 
 Yard foreman was easy to get along with, good communication with shop foreman.
 The company did throw in a barbeque once a month, during lunch time.
 Most of the office staff was pleasant and courteous, upper management was profit driven, and I felt like a number not an employee.

You’ll live and work a static life style. The owners are very about themselves. You are going to work for their children. If you are young you will not grow here or advance in your life. They do not offer schooling or education beyond a forklift certification. If you’re older and have credentials this place would probably be good for you. As a young technician this company will hold you back as they want to have you for 4 years then get you to challenge the test rather than sending you school and getting your ticket in a year. 

Most mechanics and welders here are second to non especially the Senior Mechanics. There knowledge is what makes this company a great place to work for. The parts Manager and Parts personnel are second to none and have a huge access to parts internally as well as externally. Huge shop that is very well stocked for shop tools as well as specialized bays for special work classes of units.

I worked the evening shift, very different from the day shift.
They took me on with absolutely no experience and taught me everything you could ever need to know about a trailer. Management was very dis-organised and the people were hardly more than a number on the page at the end of the day.

Culture there is very every man for himself and pass the buck. 
The hardest part of the job was the environment. In the summer, it's very hot and dusty and in the winter everything is frozen and wet. Between those seasons, it's all the above and was impossible to get a raise. What you got hired on at was it.

 The mechanics were a great group of guys, I worked mostly the night shift in the yard. (Grave yard shift)
 Tasked with unloading trailers and stacking trailers for storage, getting customer's damaged trailer or equipment into repair bays.
 Checking trailers before renting out to customers, was also tasked with organizing the yard so drivers could pick up empty trailers during the day.

Arrogance from the top down is the name of the game here. The owners really think they are something and their management are full of uneducated has beans that could not get a job anywhere else. The owner is the most arrogant person you will ever meet. Poor wages and a heavy work load. They claim to be family oriented but maybe only about their own dysfunctional one. Do yourself a favor and work elsewhere.

It's a pretty stable/reliable company.  Great family feeling environment.  It really is a great company to work for but the management needs work.  Management would rather make excuses for other managers poor behaviour and lack of professionalism and sweep problems under the rug rather then deal with them and fix the problem.

Management is rude, and arrogant. The day shift and night shift shop Forman ar both great, they care and will help whenever you need it and are quick to respond to issues,  only for management to put their foot down and make everything difficult. 
Management on the other hand could not care less about their "minions".

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Trailer mechanic 13 salaries reported	$32.12 per hour
Mécanicien 13 salaries reported	$34.08 per hour
Yard driver 3 salaries reported	$23.83 per hour
Laborer 3 salaries reported	$20.12 per hour
Warehouse associate 5 salaries reported	$21.90 per hour

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