Maintenance Mechanic & Parts Driver

• Is your career goal to work as an auto or heavy equipment mechanic?
• Do you have a CLEAN DRIVING HISTORY and a current/clean CA Driver’s License with a minimum of seven years on the road?
• Are you currently living within a 40-minute commute of Richmond, CA?
• If so, please keep reading….

In this position, you’ll join a highly experienced team of professionals who have been in the tree care industry for more than 45 years, Professional Tree Care Co. (see professional tree care dot com and green waste recycle yard dot com).

Maintenance Mechanic & Driver
, you’ll be the person who performs routine maintenance (such as oil, spark plug, filters, wiper blade changes, etc.) on a wide variety of passenger trucks, commercial trucks, and eventually heavy equipment. You’ll also serve as the primary person who drives throughout the greater Bay Area picking up and dropping off parts for our huge fleet of vehicles and machines; the same trucks, cranes, and heavy equipment used to trim and safely take down enormous trees from Mendocino to Monterey and Sacramento to San Francisco.

Reporting to our Fleet Supervisor and working alongside experienced mechanics on the Fleet team, your first priority will be to serve as parts driver, which will take +/-50% of your time. Once parts runs are completed daily, you’ll be trained and then tasked with performing maintenance with increased responsibilities as you successfully master each type of task and/or vehicle type.

The person who fills this role will have a current California Driver’s License and a clean driving record, meaning no moving violations (tickets), accidents, or points for the past five years. The minimum of seven years on the road is also a requirement of the job. The winning candidate will be someone whose long‑term career goal is to serve as a full‑time mechanic for our company.

• Stability. In business since 1980, we’re seasoned veterans of the tree care industry.
• OJT or On‑the‑job training a/k/a “Learn while you earn.”
• Timing. This is a great time to join the team since we are restructuring to attract the most qualified, productive, and positive people we can find.
• Opportunities for promotion. If you do well in the Driver/Maintenance Mechanic role, the next step would be to full‑time as a MIT:
  Mechanic‑In‑Training.
• Short commute. We’re local and prefer to hire folks who live nearby.
• Tree love. We love our customers and their trees as much as they love us.

• You like to drive. You’re a safe driver with a clean driving record, clean CA Class C Driver’s license, and you acknowledge that your work vehicle may/will be tracked throughout the day. You also have a minimum of seven years behind the wheel, which is a requirement of the role.
• You’re a gearhead! You’re naturally mechanically inclined, love all things related to cars, trucks, and heavy equipment, and you want to earn while you learn.
• You have one or more years of hands‑on experience, or a combination of high school training or trade school and hands‑on experience. Or, you have worked on your own car or that of your family/friends for several years.
• You’re authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• You have a high school diploma or G.E.D. Please list all coursework and completion dates on your resume.
• You’re physically able to lift at least 30 pounds regularly to load/unload and deliver parts, can climb under and onto large vehicles and equipment.
• Your career goal is to become a full‑time mechanic.

• Having several years’ experience working as a lube technician, junior mechanic, driver, or anything related to the responsibilities of this position.
• Being bilingual English/Spanish. This is not required but a huge plus since you’ll be working with folks whose first language is Spanish.
• Being computer savvy since you’ll enter part numbers and inventory info into a database. Also not required but would be awesome.

• Serve as our primary parts driver. Drive a company vehicle throughout the greater Bay Area to pick up/deliver parts, special orders, and whatever is needed by the Fleet team.
• Deliver and pick…