Service Technician

Service Technician

The Service Technician is responsible for servicing and repairing vehicles as assigned by the Service Manager, Supervisor, or Team Leader. In addition, the Service Technician may also be assigned to conduct pre-delivery service on new vehicles to ensure excellent working order upon delivery to the customer.

The ideal Service Technician has an unrestricted driver's license, clean driving record, a minimum of one year of dealer-level or large facility experience, post-secondary automotive training, is ASE certified (or is willing to obtain certification), and has a strong technical performance record.

Benefits include:

• Medical- 4 plans (BCBS)
• Dental
• Vision
• Term Life
• Company-paid Term Life
• STD/LTD
• Accident indemnity rider
• PTO / Sick days (annually)
• 401(k) with an employer match
• Employee Assistant Program
• FMLA / Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills and other characteristics. This list is illustrative only and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class.

Duties and responsibilities associated with this position include:

• Expertly diagnose issues based upon experience, analysis, and testing
• Maintain leading-edge knowledge of automotive diagnosis technology, digital manuals, and reference materials
• Possess an increasingly broad knowledge of how vehicles' complex components work and interact
• Perform routine service inspections, test, and lubricate engines and other major components
• Repair automobiles and light trucks that run on gasoline, electricity, or alternative fuels, such as ethanol
• Adapt to rapidly changing technologies in the automotive industry, as well as in the diagnostics arena
• Adhere to all company policies, procedures and safety standards
• Perform other duties as assigned

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Walking: Moving about on foot
• Lifting: Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling) 50-75 lbs.
• Carrying: Transporting an object, usually holding it in the hands or arms, or on the shoulder
• Pushing: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves away from the force (Includes slapping, striking, kicking, and treadle actions)
• Pulling: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves toward the force (includes jerking)
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles using feet and legs or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces, or maintaining body equilibrium when performing gymnastic feats
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist, requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees
• Crouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hand or hands. Fingers are involved only to the extent that they are an extension of the hand, such as to turn a switch or shift automobile gears
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or to the public and to convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds by ear
• Tasting/Smelling: Distinguishing, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors or odors, or recognizing Near particular flavors or odors using tongue or nose
• Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less
• Far Vision: Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more
• Depth Perception: Three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are
• Visual Accommodation: Adjustment of lens of eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This factor is required when doing near point work at varying distances from the eye
• Color Vision: Ability to identify and distinguish colors
• Field of Vision: Observing an area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point

Environmental conditions include exposure to:

• Weather
• Moving mechanical parts
• Non-Climate controlled conditions
• Wet and/or humid conditions
• High, exposed places
• Noise
• Vibration

We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.