Equipment Technician/Mechanic

Equipment Technician/Mechanic

The COST of Wisconsin, Inc. team creates award-winning construction for zoos, theme parks, casinos, resorts, museums, botanical gardens, residential communities, golf courses, family entertainment centers, theme retail stores, and restaurants.

An equipment technician/mechanic, under general supervision, conducts preventive maintenance, repairs, and fleet and safety inspections on motorized vehicles, small engines, and heavy equipment. This nonexempt position performs the role efficiently, while adhering to equipment guidelines, safety standards, and policies.

What the Role Does

1. Repair vehicles and equipment to include brakes, engines, electrical systems, hydraulics, transmissions, ignitions, air and exhaust systems, and axle assemblies.
2. Inspect, analyze, and determine sources and issues with vehicles and equipment; recommend and/or implement the most cost effective and logical repair or replacement.
3. Assist by conducting required tests, certifications, and documentation on all equipment.
4. Respond to internal customers who use equipment and vehicles, explaining maintenance and repair plans, triaging reported problems, and scheduling repairs and routine/preventive maintenance.
5. Perform metalwork and fabrication on equipment.
6. Maintain records of equipment and vehicles, as well as daily service logs. Legibly complete forms.
7. Diagnose, dismantle, and perform repairs on tools and machinery.

What You Bring Knowledge, Education

• High school diploma or equivalent

Experience

• Two years of technical auto mechanic training
• Combined experience and education will be considered
• Mechanical aptitude

Skills, Abilities

• Must demonstrate COST's Core Competencies
• Willing to learn through on-the-job training
• Ability to drive a forklift; welding skills
• Computer skills including MS Office and internet search; able to operate a tablet and scanning tool
• Ability to operate various trucks; light, medium, and heavy equipment and tools; hand tools; automotive lifts; and hydraulic equipment (for purposes of repair and maintenance)
• Significant attention to detail and safety standards, procedures, and practices
• Rapid response, problem identification, and accurate problem solving in emergency repair situations
• Able to prioritize, collaborate, and work well as a team member and independently
• Effective communication skills including verbal, written, reading, and listening
• Able to explain problems/solutions to users; strong customer focus

Physical

• Will regularly walk, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; reach above shoulders, and move
• Regularly required to talk and listen; frequent sitting and use hands to handle, type, or feel
• Lift 70 lbs. floor to waist; lift 90 lbs. waist to chest; lift 25 lbs. chest to overhead; carry 50 lbs. over a distance of 50 ft.; push a 100 lbs. wheeled cart over a distance of 100 ft.; and drag 50 lbs. over a distance of 100 ft.
• Close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment/Schedule

• Exposed to typical noises and smells associated with the production environment, such as fumes or airborne particles and production machinery.
• Noise level is moderate to loud.
• Overtime may be required.

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