Vehicle Mechanic

Truck Maintainer

Inspects, repairs, services, and maintains gasoline, diesel, and electronically operated mobile plant equipment and change, repairs, and services batteries and tires.

Truck Maintainer's essential functions include:

• Inspects, removes, repairs, and replaces parts as necessary for maintenance of equipment, working from blueprints and diagrams.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining priorities, scheduling work and securing parts from the most economical source.
• Consults usage histories via CRT parts catalogs, calls vendors, purchases materials within established limits.
• Repairs, maintains, paints, charges, removes and replaces electric storage batteries.
• Tests equipment after repairs to check proper operation.
• Does limited welding as required.
• Does body and fender work and painting on vehicle.
• Lubricates, washes, steam cleans, and services plant mobile equipment and parts, gasoline, diesel, and electric.
• Keeps accurate records of all work performed via CRT terminals and/or standardized forms.
• Performs above duties with a minimum of supervision because of thorough knowledge of the principals of internal combustion and diesel engines and electrical/electronic equipment.
• Keeps work area in a clean and orderly condition.
• Comply with all safety, quality and environmental regulations.

This position has been determined to be a safety-sensitive position and requires a pre-employment drug and alcohol screen that includes marijuana.

Applicants must have 3 years' experience in all phases of repair on gas, diesel and electric mobile equipment. This includes trouble shooting and repair of motors, hydraulics, brake systems, fuel injection systems, electronic controls and electric motor repair.

Be willing to work shifts, weekends, holidays and rotating schedules, if necessary.

Computerized electronic test equipment, hose-making machine, CRT terminal, overhead cranes, hoists, jacks, welding and cutting equipment, grinders, sanders, hydraulic tire press, battery chargers, voltmeter, hand and power tools, standarized forms, etc.

Gasoline, diesel and electrically powered equipment and associated mechanical and electrical components, oil, grease, solvent, electric batteries, acids, hot tar, caustic solution, etc.

Approximately 100% of the job function is required in the plant. There is exposure to loud noises, operating machinery and a manufacturing environment.

There will be periods of walking and standing.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and climb or balance.
• The employee is regularly required to reach with arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk and hear.

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.