Fleet Maintenance Technician II -Metra Part Time

Fleet Maintenance Technician

This position is responsible for maintaining and repairing the city's fleet of public transportation vehicles and equipment.

Responsibilities include:

• Daily inspection, maintenance, and minor repairs to buses.
• Repairing, replacing, and maintaining tires and batteries. Inspects buses for damage, loose bolts, and transmission leaks.
• Washing and refueling buses daily; adding oil and fluids as needed.
• Draining air tanks, and installing and removing small electrical on vehicles.
• Responding to road calls as necessary, completing work orders, and ordering parts as needed.
• Inspecting safety equipment, removing and vaulting fareboxes, and running night-time GFI reports.
• May work with and supervise tasks performed by community service workers.
• Withdrawing revenue from fareboxes; storing revenue in the vault.
• Ensuring that the supervisor is informed of all job-related issues.
• Providing transportation to Homeland Security in the event of an emergency (Small or Large Buses).
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Required knowledge and skills include:

• Fleet maintenance techniques.
• Safety precautions.
• Cleaning and inspecting vehicles and equipment.
• Repair or replacement of tires and batteries.
• Oral and written communication.
• Reading, writing, and performing mathematical calculations.

Education and experience requirements include:

High School Diploma, GED, Associate degree, Technical Certification. Minimum level of automotive repair experience. CDL permit or full endorsement. Basic knowledge of essential automotive maintenance tasks includes fluid level checks, tire changes fuel, and minor mechanical repairs. Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people. Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid commercial driver's license (CDL) issued by the State of Georgia for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.

Physical abilities required include:

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 - shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
• Visual Acuity 5 - close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, computer room, or outdoors where the employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, machinery with moving parts, contagious or infectious diseases, irritating chemicals, and cold or inclement weather. The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves.