HEAVY VEHICLE MASTER TECHNICIAN

Job Title

This position performs highly skilled mechanical repair work on City-owned diesel- and gasoline-powered trucks and other specialized medium-to-heavy equipment, ensuring that repaired vehicles run properly and safely; performs preventive maintenance on such equipment as scheduled, and performs related work as required.

Essential Job Functions

• Opens and prepares the shop for operation daily;
• Collects work requests from the vehicles left overnight and creates work orders on Fleet Focus;
• Assists anyone who waits on their vehicles and/or equipment on an expedite manner;
• Prepares the new vehicles prior to delivery to the divisions; makes sure the turned-in vehicles get ready for surplus;
• Gets estimates on vehicles involved in accidents, and delivers them to the lowest bidder and picks them up when repaired;
• Diagnoses and performs mechanical repair work on diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles, trucks and heavy equipment, including repairing or replacing engines, fuel injection systems, electronic engine controls, electrical systems, brake systems, hydraulic systems, HVAC systems, computer systems, drivetrains, differentials, etc.;
• Supervises and assigns work load to employees, ensures work is completed in a timely manner and of quality; and completes performance evaluations on employees;
• Repairs emergency services and law enforcement vehicles; installs and maintains specialized equipment on emergency vehicles as necessary;
• Performs welding and fabrication work as needed;
• Performs a variety of preventive maintenance duties as scheduled, including changing oil, lubricating, replacing hoses and belts, replacing brakes, checking lights, and tuning engines;
• Installs and repairs emergency lights and equipment (computers, GPS, radios, etc.) on Police, Fire and other division's vehicles;
• Changes and repairs tires on vehicles;
• Conducts road tests after repair work is completed to ensure that all vehicles are mechanically safe and function properly;
• Provides emergency field assistance to disabled vehicles; tows vehicles to the Fleet maintenance shop when necessary and/or when they are involved in an accident;
• Picks up parts from vendors as necessary; assists in maintaining inventory of necessary parts and supplies;
• Reviews work orders to ensure repairs are completed correctly and in a timely manner;
• Maintains records of work completed and parts used;
• Maintains assigned tools and equipment; responsible for decaling City vehicles and removals; troubleshoots electrical issues in all light vehicles and removal of lighting and IT equipment when necessary;
• Assists in maintaining a clean and orderly shop;
• Provides training, instruction and leadership of lower-level mechanics and technicians as assigned; performs the duties of other mechanics when they are absent;
• Coordinates special division operations, such as daily tire shop activities;
• Attends training, workshops, meetings, etc., as appropriate to maintain or enhance job knowledge and skills; and
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications to Perform Work:

• High school diploma or GED;
• Seven (7) years of relevant prior experience;
• Valid South Carolina Class "A" Driver's License;
• Preference may be given to ASE Certified Master Medium-Heavy Truck Technicians;
• Possess a mechanic's tool set.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of basic addition and subtraction, such as making change or measuring;
• Ability to coordinate or determine time, place or sequence of operations or activities based on analysis of data or information and may implement and report on operations and activities;
• Ability to provide information, guidance or assistance to people to directly facilitate task accomplishment; may give directions or assignments to helpers or assistants;
• Ability to speak or signal to people to convey or exchange information of a general nature;
• Ability to lead, operate or repair complex machinery or equipment that requires extended training and experience, such as vehicles, trucks, emergency vehicles and other mechanical equipment; may involve installation and testing. Involves operations of limited scope;
• Ability to perform skilled work involving rules/systems with almost constant problem-solving;
• Ability to read technical instructions, procedures, manuals and charts to solve practical problems; composing routine reports and specialized reports, forms and business letters with proper format; speaking compound sentences using normal grammar and word form;
• Ability to perform clerical, manual or technical tasks requiring a wide range of procedures and requiring intensive understanding of a restricted field or complete familiarity with the functions of a unit or small division of an operating agency; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure; and
• Ability to guide others, requiring frequent decisions affecting co-workers, customers and others who depend on the service or product; works in a somewhat fluid environment with rules and procedures but with many variations from the routine.