Heavy Equipment Maintenance Technician III

Open Recruitment

Position Specific Recruitment

This is a position-specific recruitment, open to anyone who meets the minimum qualifications listed below. The resulting list of eligible candidates will be used to fill this position or function only. You will need to reapply for any future recruitment conducted for this job classification.

The Maryland Aviation Administration (MAA) is the owner & operator of both BWI Thurgood Marshall and Martin State Airports, serving over 27 million passengers annually.

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The MAA is currently accepting applications for the position of Heavy Equipment Maintenance Technician III within the Office of Fleet Maintenance at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI Marshall Airport).

• Performing preventive maintenance inspections.
• Inspecting, diagnosing, and repairing major malfunctions on motor vehicles and motor equipment.
• Performing standard preventive maintenance services such as changing oil, fueling, cleaning, or greasing parts.
• Assisting in snow removal procedures on Airport Runways and taxiways.
• Road-testing vehicles and equipment to ensure safety and reliability.

This position is an emergency essential position. All employees designated as emergency essential are required to be available to work during weather, operational, and/or disaster emergency conditions. Furthermore, this position requires work in a 24-hour facility, and you must be available to work any shift as required by the operational needs of the MAA.

This position is located at BWI Marshall Airport in Anne Arundel County, MD.

• Education: Graduation from a standard high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.
• Experience: Four years of experience servicing, maintaining and repairing motor vehicles, gasoline and/or diesel engines, or heavy-duty construction equipment. Two years of the required experience must include servicing and repairing heavy duty construction equipment and diesel engines.
• Notes: 1. Applicants may substitute additional documented and relevant experience repairing, servicing and maintaining automobiles, trucks, buses or comparable equipment on a year-for-year basis for the required education.
  2. Completion of an accredited training program for Heavy Equipment or Diesel Repair may be substituted for one and one-half years of the general experience. The accrediting body for the training program must be listed on the U.S. Department of Education's Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs.
  3. U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as defined under the
  
  Minimum Qualifications may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required education and experience.
  4. Certification as a Technician by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) can be substituted for two years of the required education. (The two years of experience used to qualify for ASE testing is considered an integral part of this substitution and cannot also be considered separately to meet Education or Experience
  
  Minimum Qualifications .)
  5. Certification as a Master Technician in one or more subject areas by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) can be substituted for the required education.