Skilled Heavy Equipment Mechanic Needed
GPAC
2024-11-05 05:42:51
Big Spring, Texas, United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Transport & Logistics
Job description
"Ready to get your hands dirty and keep the heavy machinery rolling? Dive into a role where your mechanical skills meet high-stakes equipment maintenance!"
Description: This role involves performing skilled mechanical work on heavy equipment and motor vehicles, working under the direct supervision of either the Heavy Equipment Supervisor or the Light Duty Equipment Supervisor. You'll tackle hands-on challenges, ensuring everything runs smoothly, even when the job site pushes the limits. Please note that you may be exposed to ionizing radiation, managed to be As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) and within regulatory limits, ensuring your safety while you focus on what you do best.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform repairs on vehicles, heavy equipment, and other machinery, including computerized systems, as assigned through work orders.
- Carry out preventative and scheduled maintenance on vehicles, heavy equipment, motors, and other equipment.
- Keep detailed records of vehicle, heavy equipment, motor, and other equipment operation and repairs.
- Clean the shop, offices, vehicles, heavy equipment, motors, and other equipment as required.
- Report any safety hazards within the shop area to the Supervisor.
- Apply skills from human performance training to minimize personal and team errors.
- Perform other related tasks as required.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to a satisfactory level. The requirements listed below represent the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma or GED.
- Two (2) years of experience in automotive and/or heavy equipment repairs, including gasoline and diesel engines, pumps, compressors, and other rotating equipment.
- Equivalent education and experience will be considered.
- Knowledge of preventative maintenance and general repairs of motor vehicles, heavy equipment, and mechanized equipment is preferred.
Language Skills:
- Ability to read, comprehend, and write simple instructions, correspondence, and memos in English.
- Capable of presenting information in small groups and one-on-one settings.
Mathematical Skills:
- Proficiency in basic math: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and working with fractions, decimals, and percentages.
- Familiarity with both standard and metric measurement systems.
Reasoning Ability:
- Ability to apply common sense to execute detailed but straightforward written or verbal instructions.
- Capable of handling problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here represent those necessary to perform the job's essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
While performing the job duties, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, handle or feel objects, reach with hands and arms, and communicate. Occasional activities include sitting, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, tasting, and smelling. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds. Vision abilities required for this role include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are typical of those an employee may encounter while performing the job's essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
During the performance of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, vibration, electrical shock risk, high and precarious places, airborne particles, toxic chemicals, and outside weather conditions, including extreme cold and heat. The employee may also be exposed to ionizing radiation, kept within ALARA and regulatory limits. Noise levels are generally moderate.
How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume to
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.
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