Truck - Diesel Mechanic

Truck/Diesel Mechanic

The Truck/Diesel Mechanic position performs a variety of skilled and technical maintenance and repair work on a wide variety of vehicles and light, medium, and heavy equipment. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Performs routine maintenance on trucks, such as checking batteries and changing oil to ensure proper vehicle running.
• Inspects various parts of trucks, including brake systems, wheel bearings, and steering mechanisms to ensure they are in the proper condition to operate effectively.
• Uses different tools and equipment such as pressure gauges, pneumatic wrenches, welding equipment, screwdrivers, hoists, and jacks, to repair trucks.
• Diagnoses malfunctions in defective equipment by inspecting and testing using devices such as motor analyzers, handheld computers, and chassis charts to determine how to address problems.
• Test drives vehicles to ensure they are running properly and to find issues to determine the solution.
• Replaces parts, valves, bearings, and gears as needed and repairs vehicle cooling and heating systems.
• Measures vehicle emissions to ensure they are in the proper limits.
• Ensures parts conform to factory specifications by inspecting and verifying clearances and dimensions.
• Follows all county and industry standard safety procedures.
• Reports all accidents/incidents immediately to supervisor.

Interdepartmental cooperation includes:

• Responds to emergency calls as required.
• May be required to work during adverse weather conditions if warranted.

Special requirement:
Employee must furnish own hand tools with sufficient tool inventory to complete daily tasks and work assignments.

Core competencies include:

• Communication:
  Expresses ideas and thoughts both verbally and in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Cooperation:
  Establishes and maintains effective relations; displays positive outlook and pleasant manner; exhibits tact and consideration; offers assistance and support to co-workers; works cooperatively with supervisor and co-workers; collaborates effectively with other departments as needed. Adapts to changes in work environment, procedures, and assignments; manages competing demands; accepts criticism and feedback; changes approach/method to best fit the situation/work assignment.
• Customer Service:
  Displays courtesy and sensitivity; manages difficult/emotional customer situations; responds promptly to customer needs; meets commitments; solicits customer feedback to improve service.
• Dependability:
  Consistently reports to work on time ready to begin work; responds promptly to requests for service and assistance; follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments.
• Initiative:
  Volunteers readily; seeks increased responsibility; identifies opportunities to improve systems & procedures; asks for help when needed. Exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills; requires minimal supervision; displays understanding of how job relates to others.
• Judgment:
  Displays a willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision making process; makes timely decisions.
• Quality:
  Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; displays commitment to excellence; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality. Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans and uses available resources; works in an organized and efficient manner.

Supervisory responsibilities and competencies:

This position is a non-supervisory position.

Minimum qualifications:

• Education/
  
  Experience:
  
  High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and a minimum of three years of experience in the repair and maintenance of automotive types and heavy equipment; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Technical certification or degree preferred but not required.
• Language
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Mathematical
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability:
  Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Other Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities:
  Working knowledge of the standard practices, methods, materials, and tools used in equipment…