Light Duty Operator Job Baltimore area,Maryland USA,Automotive

Description

Summary:

Perform emergency road service, towing, accident recovery, and abandoned vehicle recovery using assigned truck and towing equipment correctly as trained. Present to the customer a professional self-image and company image through excellent service, safe operation and timeliness. Maintain truck and equipment in compliance with Company guidelines. Perform necessary documentation timely and correctly according to procedures in effect. Display competency, professionalism, dependability, and an aptitude for safety and communication with others.

Be Safe, Smile and enjoy your job! You are a “Hero of the Highway”!

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must by 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to fingers, handle or feel and talk t or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must be able o sit in vehicle seat for extended periods, perform significant amount of driving, bending, lifting, twisting, climb or lance, and listen to and respond to radio and telephone communications.

This job requires the FULL USE OF the following body parts AT ALL TIME:

Both hands Both arms

Both eyes The back

Both legs Both Knees

Both hips Both Hips

Specific physical tasks include:

Grasping with both hands tightly a 4-way (star) wrench and twisting and spinning it in order to break free and retighten lug nuts that can be torque tightened to over 100 ft lbs.

Grasping with both hands a 50 lb. air jack and lifting it out of a truck tool box and over a truck bed to place under a vehicle, then reversing the process.

Grasping an impact wrench and operating it for both tightening and loosening some lug nuts.

Grasping with both hands and pushing/pulling back and forth a “frozen” or rusted/stuck – on wheel and tire from the automobile’s drum/disc brake assembly.

Grasping with both hands and lifting, from either the ground or the truck of a vehicle, up to an eighth of chest level, a wheel/tire assembly that can weigh up to 85 lbs.

Crawling under a vehicle, and grasping tightly with both hands, using bolt cutters to cut chains or cables off the spare tires

Using both hands, reaching into unseen areas of an automobile’s engine bay, tracing by feel the automobile’s main wiring to feel for and detect broken, frayed or loose wiring, connectors, or cables.

Using both hands, removing the heavy back seats entirely from the vehicle in order to access the battery holding compartment, then removing automobile battery from the rear seating area of the automobile, by using both hands to tightly grasp and balance the battery to prevent spills while inside the automobile, them carrying said battery (weighing up to 48 lbs.) out of the automobile and placing it into the service trucks battery holding tray.

Crawling under a disabled vehicle, and using both hands, holding onto a tow rope and clamp, feeling into unseen areas for the correct holes in the frame to attach said tow rope and lamping device.

Grasping with both hands, a tool box filled with tools, weighing up to 40 lbs. and carrying it back and forth between the truck and disabled vehicles.

Grasping with both hands, a steel hydraulic floor jack weighing up to 50 lbs., lifting it out of the service truck’s storage bin, carrying it to the disabled vehicle, placing it under the vehicle, the reversing the process when through servicing the vehicle.

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