Truck & Trailer Mechanic — Repair, Diagnose & Grow

Job Summary

Repair company equipment in a safe, timely, cost‑effective, and practical manner, including performing preventative maintenance, general repairs, troubleshooting, and electronic diagnostics.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build, rebuild, and repair all parts of company equipment as required.
• Diagnose any mechanical, electrical, or other breakdown or failure to a motor truck or related equipment.
• Read precision instruments such as micrometers, dial indicators, bore gauges, voltmeters, digital multimeters, calibrators, and other electronic diagnostic tools.
• Troubleshoot and perform failure analysis of the component parts and systems on the truck or truck tractor; or the component parts and systems of the trailer or converter dolly (this requirement may not apply to body and frame specialists).
• When applicable use welding skills and knowledge of metals to complete truck repairs.
• Individuals who work on converter dollies must be able to weld horizontally and vertically without air pockets in the bead.
• Apply knowledge of DOT, EPA, ICC, and OSHA rules and regulations.
• This is not an all inclusive list of job responsibilities and duties. Employees are expected and must be able to perform all duties and tasks as assigned.

Job Qualifications

Education:

• High School degree or equivalent.

Experience:

• Experience working as a maintenance technician or equivalent education.
• Experience with truck repair, body and frame repair.
• Must provide own tools to perform job duties.
• Ability to complete required paperwork and records.
• Must possess a valid Commercial Driver’s License (when required).
• Working knowledge of most systems located on a truck/truck tractor, a semi‑trailer or converter dolly.
• Proficient at reading precision instruments such as micrometers, dial indicators, bore gauges, voltmeters, digital multimeters, calibrators and other electronic diagnostic tools.
• Ability to troubleshoot and do failure analysis of some of the component parts and systems on the truck or truck tractor; or the component parts and systems of the trailer or converter dolly (This requirement may not apply to body and frame specialists).
• Knowledge of DOT, EPA, ICC and OSHA rules and regulations.
• Willingness to participate in training classes offered and/or requested by the company and willingness to attend when the class is offered which might require a shift change.
• Willing to take written and/or oral tests to provide management with information to be used for management and classification.
• Consistent with company policies, individuals are expected to maintain superior customer relations.
• Willing to work on any piece of rolling stock and associated equipment as directed by the company.

Physical Demands

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.

• Sitting: Must be able to sit 10% of time on stools, ground, and other potentially unforgiving surfaces.
• Standing: Must be able to spend a significant amount of time, up to 8 or 10 hours/shift, 5‑7 days per week, standing while performing work on the vehicles on non‑forgiving surfaces such as concrete, wood and metal and sometimes on wet and slippery surfaces.
• Moving/Walking: Must be able to walk up to 8 hours a day on non‑forgiving surfaces such as concrete, wood and metal and sometimes on wet and slippery surfaces.
• Bending/Stooping/Kneeling: Must be able to perform frequent bending, squatting, or kneeling to reach into tight spaces and to reach certain engine components.
• Climbing: Must be able to get onto and off the truck cabins or forklifts during regular maintenance functions many times throughout the day.
• Moving Materials: Must be able to load and unload trailers and or move materials in boxes from one area of the shop to another. Often carrying boxes and/or parts throughout the shop to and from equipment being worked on.
• Lifting: Must be able to frequently lift and handle objects weighing up to 100 lbs. of varying sizes or shapes, using OSHA guidelines and lifting techniques, distances of 1 foot but usually no less than 100 feet.
• Reaching: Must be able to spend time reaching into tight spaces to access engine components.
• Hearing/Speaking: Must be able to hear the horns of forklifts, trucks, and shouted instructions and warnings.
• Must be able to use right, left or both hands to get in and out of trucks, tight spaces, forklift, wrapping and using pallet jack or hand truck, using the steering wheel, buttons on lift gates, etc.
• Must be able to grip with right, left or both hands to use all necessary tools, to get in and out of the forklift, holding tablet, using pallet jacks or hand trucks, controlling and pushing the buttons, holding the steering wheel, etc.
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