FLEET MECHANIC

JOB SUMMARY: Repairs and maintains diesel and gasoline industrial trucks, following manuals, and using hand tools, power tools, and knowledge of electrical, power transmission, brake, and other automotive systems.

This position has direct responsibility to ensure that all work activities under its span of control are performed with attention to the highest standards of food quality, safe processes, compliance with all appropriate legal requirements and a focus on continuous process improvement.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Reads repair job order and perform the diagnosis

2. Observes and listens to truck in operation to determine malfunction and part as needed

3. Plan work procedures to repair vehicle

4. Installs new ignition systems, aligns front wheels, changes or recharges batteries, replaces

Transmissions and other parts, and overhauls gas or diesel engines

5. Examines protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices on trucks, and makes

adjustments

6. Lubricates moving parts and drives repaired truck to verify conformance to specifications

7. May travel to other IBC facilities to perform duties of fleet mechanic

8. Mount and dismount tires

9. Do federal inspections on trucks once a year

10. Perform preventive maintenance per company standards

JOB SPECIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Requires high school diploma, or equivalent. Additional post-secondary education is preferred (ie: Technical of Vocational education) in areas of shop management or equivalent experience in shop management.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Fleet Mechanic, DOT# 620.281-050 is a skilled position (2-4 years vocational preparation). The general educational development requirements include the following:

Reasoning Skills – Apply principles of rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form.

Mathematical Skills – Compute discount, interest, profit, and loss; commission, markups, and selling price; ratio and proportion, and percentages. Calculate surfaces, volumes, weights, and measures.

Language Skills – Read safety rules, instructions in the use and maintenance of shop tools and equipment, and methods and procedures in mechanical drawing and layout work. Speak before an audience with poise, voice control, and confidence, using correct English and well-modulated voice.

Previous work experience in a motor transportation shop management is preferred.

Prefer previous safety training.

PHYSICAL REOUIREMENTS

Ability to sit (5%), stand (50%), walk (25%), kneel/squat (15%), and bend (5%) for 8 hours a day. Ability to lift approximately up to a maximum of 100 pounds approximately 4 times per day from floor to waist. Ability to reach overhead 10 times per day and to ground 10 times per day. Climbing stairs and ladders 12 times per day. Climbing in and out of trucks on jack stands 60 times per day. Using repetitive motions, using the hands/arms approximately 200 times per hour. Also uses the back (twisting) 5 times per hour. Ability to push/pull engines, air jacks, and tool boxes weighing from 120-500 pounds, using upper body approximately 5 times per hour and whole body 6 times per day. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a Fleet Mechanic is considered a heavy physical demand level job, defined as occasional exerting force of 5-100 pounds frequently 25-50, and constantly 10-20 pounds.

OTHER ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS NOT LISTED ABOVE INCLUDE

Reading, writing, seeing, hearing, communicating, adding, subtracting, and understanding instructions. Ability to tolerate temperature extremes 5 times per day. Exposure to grease, oil, solvents, and fumes. The U.S. Department of Labor also reports near and far acuity, depth perception and color vision are other physical demands. Required to have CDL tractor trailer, A/C Certification, and Brake Inspection Certification.

MACHINES/TOOLS USED

Mechanic hand tools, brake lathe, pressure washer, electric and gas welder, drill press, hydraulic press, fork lift, and shop tools related to automotive work.