Fleet Mechanic II

This position is responsible for performing intermediate skilled work in the maintenance and repair involving the inspection, preventive maintenance, and repair of a wide variety of automotive, heavy duty vehicles, refuse vehicles, and construction and support equipment. The Fleet Mechanic II receives frequent verbal and written instruction through on the job training, attendance at general shop meetings, and formal classroom instruction.

The formal training may require employees to attend classroom instruction outside their regularly scheduled hours. The employee has contact with coworkers and on occasion, employees of other divisions and departments. The Mechanic II work is subject to general directions of standardized practices and is able to perform most mechanical work, but would still require direction and development in areas of diagnosis and particularly complex repair jobs.

Employees will be responsible for carrying out preventive maintenance tasks; determining causes of vehicle/equipment/apparatus operating problems by tracing and locating defects; selecting and safely using proper tools, equipment, devices, manuals, references, established procedures and techniques; and making repairs to automotive, light and medium duty trucks, heavy mobile equipment/vehicles, refuses collections trucks and utility maintenance equipment/vehicles. A Mechanic Technician II uses initiative in carrying out recurring assignments independently without specific instruction, but references deviations, problems, and unfamiliar situations not covered by instructions to the supervisor or more experienced mechanics.

Complexity of the work derives from work on gasoline and diesel engine vehicles and equipment which include hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, electrical, electronic, and computer controlled utility systems, controls, and features, many of which work in consonance with and are dependent upon each other for proper functioning. In performing work on recurring assignments, the employee maintains vehicles and equipment, and repairs defects or malfunctions which are more readily diagnosed than on the most complex assignments.

Work is performed in accordance with technical manuals, illustrations, specifications, diagrams, and schematics. The impact of properly performed work is the provision of vehicles which are both operationally safe and capable of performing in the manner for which they were designed. While positions of this class are non-supervisory, employees periodically provide on-the-job training and instruction to less experienced Mechanic I.

Work is performed in all of the following settings:
Fleet Services maintenance building, maintenance yard, on the road, or wherever a break down occurs. Repair work may be performed in any weather conditions. Employees work in tiring and uncomfortable positions for long periods, and must continuously bend, reach, stretch, lift, stoop, climb and crouch often on top of, in, and under vehicles and engines in cramped and awkward positions.

Performance of the work of the class regularly involves exposure to loud noises, vibrations, dust, dirt and grease. Employees perform physically strenuous work while standing, lying down, or sitting; and pull, push, lift and carry items which weigh up to one hundred (100) pounds, and occasionally in excess of one hundred (100) pounds. The work requires employees to push, pull, turn, position and otherwise move parts, assemblies, components, equipment and tools often near or immediately adjacent to running engines where employees are exposed to compressed air, electrical current, belts, pulleys, fan blades and sharp edges.

Additional hazards include spring-loaded parts, lifts and presses on wet/greasy floors, hot…