Shop Assistant

Wagner Equipment Co. offers challenging career opportunities, extensive training and employee development along with an opportunity to grow your career and thrive under Wagner’s reputation for excellence. We offer excellent benefits and supply you with the tools you need to maximize your potential and grow within Wagner.

Benefits include:

• Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan - Up to 96 hours of PTO in your first year + 8 company paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Retirement Plans - 401K and Roth 401K , eligible employees can receive a company contribution up to 7%
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• CEFCU- Citizens Equity First Credit Union - Employees have access to services include payroll deductions savings, accounts, loans, VISA card, and more.
• Additional Benefits include: Unum Supplemental life Insurance, Aflac Critical Illness + Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and discounted employee phone plans.

The Utility Worker performs general support and housekeeping functions for an assigned shop, which may include refueling equipment, reporting machine hours to the counter representative upon rental returns, and organizing the yard by equipment status, in a manner that reflects the company’s vision of working as “One Professional Team.” Depending on what shop/location assigned to, the Utility Worker will perform all or some of these functions.

Pay rate: $16.00 - $19.32 per hour
Pay rate is dependent upon education & experience.


Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Paints and details parts and components
• Ships, receives, and delivers components and other items
• Power washes parts and delivers to the shop floor
• Empties scrap metal containers
• Picks up and delivers parts for Technicians as needed
• Keeps property clean, mowed, and well landscaped
• Runs power sweeper through shop
• Cleans and preps new and used machinery for delivery
• Removes snow and grades parking lot as needed
• Performs general housekeeping duties as assigned
• Maintains equipment such as forklifts, hot tanks, power washer, and paint equipment
• Loads and unloads equipment as required by work assignments
• Maintains good organization in the yard by keeping a regular up and down line pattern
• Applies 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Sweep, Standardize, and Sustain) principles in the yard
• Meets the needs and requests of the customer in a professional and courteous manner
• Acts as an ambassador for our company; promotes additional sales by learning what other pieces of equipment or services our company can provide to our customers
• Engages in required safety practices at all times
• Reads and understands the manufactures Operation and Maintenance Manual per machine type and complies with its contents
• Instructs customers to safely operate equipment in accordance with manufactures instructions, and shows the location of the Manufactures Operation Manual (if so equipped) for their future reference
• Knows proper tie-down techniques and procedures to ensure equipment is correctly secured for transport in accordance with manufactures instructions
• Inspects machines returned from rental for customer damage and notifies the Shop Coordinator regarding any specific damage found
• Other duties as assigned by manager

Required Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED
• 1+ years customer service experience
• 1+ years machine service/maintenance
• 1+ years machine operating skills
• 1+ years forklift operation

Physical Demands & Competencies:

• Standing, walking, talking, sitting, use of hands & hearing
• Squatting/Kneeling
• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, etc.
• Heavy work that includes lifting and/or moving objects up to 60 pounds or more
• Data Entry, telephone, reading/writing, reasoning, organizational, communication & math skills
• Safety & Product Knowledge
• Basic ability to search for and enter data into a computer
• Ability to type service reports

Work Environment:

• Noise: Loud
• Indoors and Outdoors
• Small and/or enclosed spaces
• Specific Risks: Works with moving, mechanical parts; may work in high places and be exposed to equipment vibration and fumes

Other Duties:

Job Offers are contingent upon all required pre-employment screenings which may include but are not limited to background checks, drug/alcohol testing, fit for duty testing, and any other job-related tests/screenings.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.


Wagner Equipment Co. is an EEO/AA/Veterans/Disabled employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities


This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
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