Heavy Equipment Mechanic - GPAC

Job Title: Heavy Equipment Mechanic

Summary

This role involves performing skilled mechanical work on heavy equipment and motor vehicles. 

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 the Heavy Equipment Mechanic's 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. 

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or GED.
• 3-5 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.

The physical demands described here represent those necessary to perform the Heavy Equipment Mechanic's essential functions. 

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 the Heavy Equipment Mechanic's 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 Heavy Equipment Mechanic's essential duties. 

During the performance of the Heavy Equipment Mechanic's 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.  Noise levels are generally moderate.

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.

GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.