SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC LEADER (TITLE 32)

Surface Maintenance Mechanic Leader

As a SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC LEADER (TITLE 32), WL-5801-10, you will serve as a working leader of three or more Surface Maintenance Mechanics, WG-5801-10. Major Duties - This is NOT an all-inclusive list:

• Assign work orders to specific crewmembers and select workers for various jobs on the basis of knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Pass on to workers instructions received from the supervisor, demonstrates proper work methods, and starts work.
• Insure that needed plans, blueprints, material, and tools are available, and that needed stock is obtained from supply locations.
• Assure that there is enough work to keep the work crew busy.
• Troubleshoot, perform maintenance and major repairs on heavy-duty mobile equipment, combat, tactical and automotive vehicles.
• Make repairs to assemblies and components such as voltage regulators, generators/alternators, brake cylinders, etc.
• Troubleshoot equipment and diagnose the cause of mechanical failures by means of visual and auditory checks and/or uses test equipment such as engine analyzers, compression testers, voltmeters, ohmmeters, pressure gauges, and computer diagnostic tools.
• Utilize embedded diagnostics in equipment and a wide variety of original equipment manufacturer system analyzers in order to determine the exact nature or extent of repair.
• Determine what adjustments may be necessary to complete work orders, and whether any additional repairs other than those specified or indicated on the work order are necessary.