Description
Mechanic's Helper
Full-Time Permanent (1.0 FTE - 8 hours per day - 12 months)
Swift Current Bus Garage
Competition #3949
Chinook is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in our schools and workplace as indicated in AP 176. Successful candidates are expected to:
- understand the importance of supporting a welcoming environment;
- present a positive attitude towards inclusion and diversity;
- identify opportunities to support inclusion and diversity; and,
- take meaningful action.
Start Date: February 2, 2026
Qualifications:
- Hold and maintain a valid driver's license
- Able to work with minimal supervision
- Able to work as a team player
- Able to work co-operatively with garage personnel, bus drivers, and the public
- Able to do heavy work (exerting up to 100 lbs. of force occasionally and up to 50 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 20 lbs. of force constantly to move objects
Duties may include but are not limited to the following:
- Deal tactfully with staff and the public.
- Maintain the garage in a clean, neat, and well-organized manner.
- Practice safe work habits at all times
- Empty garbage containers as required
- Clean and organize common areas in the garage
- Assist mechanics with day-to-day servicing of buses and other school division owned vehicles
- Assist mechanics with the annual safety inspection of buses
- Wash and clean division vehicles, spare buses and route buses as required
- Pick up and deliver buses and other division vehicles as required
- Ensure spare buses are ready for their next use
- Assist mechanics with heavy or two person tasks
- Assist mechanics with telephone duties, i.e. answering the telephone during busy periods, taking messages, and making telephone calls
- Assist mechanics with inventory ensuring parts are in stock
- Practice safe work habits at all times
- Promote the vision, mission, principles and goals of the Chinook School Division
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits:
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan
- Employee benefit package
- Positive work environment
- Pay range: $20.29 to $22.17 per hour
Applications must be submitted prior to 3:00 pm on December 29, 2025.
For more information about this position, please contact Travis Kelln, Superintendent of Schools and Transportation at 306-778-9200. Please submit your application to the attention of Shauna Lacher, Manager of Human Resources.
Please note: all successful applicants must agree to a Criminal Record Check including a Vulnerable Sector Search as a condition of employment.
Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
By virtue of the submission of the application, the applicant agrees that the Director or designate can contact previous employers for the purpose of conducting confidential reference checks whether or not the applicant has listed a reference for that employer.
