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Posted: 17-Jun-22
Location: Los Banos, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: $24.16 - $35.70
Years of Experience:
Salary Details:
This position will be located at the Billy Wright Landfill in Los Banos, CA. Some travel to the Merced Landfill may be required.
DEFINITION:
Under general supervision, to perform skilled work in repairing, overhauling, and maintaining automotive and road construction equipment powered by gasoline, CNG, and/or diesel fuels. Assist the Site Supervisor as needed and perform other related duties, as assigned.
The incumbents in this class perform a full range of diagnosing a wide variety of mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic problems, welding and repair work on construction equipment and trucks with one-ton capacity or larger. They are expected to perform with a high degree of skill and independence. The Heavy Equipment Mechanic II incumbents are normally assigned work requiring a higher level of skill and knowledge and are certified by the State of California to provide service in the areas of lamp adjustment, brake adjustment, and refrigeration/recycling A/C.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Examines and locates mechanical defects in a wide variety of automotive, road construction and maintenance equipment.
- Makes major and minor mechanical repairs including engine tune-ups, brake relining, body and fender, and electrical system repair.
- Fits new parts and adjusts engines, oil, water, and fuel pumps, carburetors and fuel injectors, governors, starting motors, clutches, transmissions, differentials, brakes and steering gear.
- Repairs track layer type tractors, checking and replacing rollers, pins and brushing.
- Overhauls hydraulic lifts and steering assemblies on motor graders and tractors.
- Maintains records of time and materials used on each job.
- Perform gas electrical welding and repair work in the field.
- Performs machinist and fabrication work.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Level I
Experience: Four (4) years of increasingly responsible experience and training in heavy equipment or auto repair or successful completion of an approved apprenticeship program in heavy equipment or auto repair.
License: Possess and maintain a valid Class "A" California driver's license. A Class “C” license may be substituted during the first six months of employment, but a Class “A” license must be obtained by the end of the six month period. Failure to obtain the proper license will result in termination.
Level II
Experience: Two (2) years of heavy equipment mechanic repair performing duties comparable to those of a Heavy Equipment Mechanic I.
License: Possession and maintain a valid California Class "A" driver's license. Possession and maintenance of a valid State of California Class "A" Brake Certificate, a Class "A" Lamp Certificate, and a Refrigeration/Recycling Air Conditioning Certificate.
IDENTIFIED SAFETY SENSITIVE POSITIONS IN THIS CLASSIFICATION WILL BE SUBJECT TO PRE-EMPLOYMENT, POST-ACCIDENT, REASONABLE SUSPICION, RANDOM AND RETURN-TO-DUTY DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE AUTHORITY’S DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING POLICY.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Communicate effectively with others in person and over the telephone.
- Perform job duties under stressful conditions.
- Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and/or Authority regulations.
- Lift and move with help objects weighing over 100 pounds.
- Walk, stand, stoop, crawl, kneel, or crouch on narrow, slippery, erratically moving surfaces.
- Operate large equipment such as cars, trucks, forklifts, cranes.
- Wear a respirator or safety glasses or other protective clothing and equipment.
- Frequent use of depth perception, peripheral vision and color perception.
- Frequent use of hand-eye coordination.
- Normal dexterity, frequent holding and grasping.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge of:
- Methods, materials, tools, and equipment used in the testing, adjustment, repair, and overhaul of automotive and road construction equipment.
- Theory, operation and care of internal combustion engines and their components.
- Hydraulic valves and controls, hydraulic and air brake systems, and electronic ignition.
- Principles and methods of acetylene and electric-arc welding.
- Painting techniques.
- Safe work practices.
Ability to:
- Inspect equipment to locate and accurately diagnose mechanical defects.
- Use a variety of power hand tools, diagnostic equipment and shop equipment.
- Perform testing, adjustment, repair, and overhaul work on automotive and heavy equipment.
- Understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
- Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
- Read and write at the level required for successful job performance.
- Cut, reform, and fabricate parts using welders and shop equipment.
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