What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanic position at Solid Waste Authority?
Salary : $50,585.60 - $88,524.80 Annually
Location : West Palm Beach, FL 33412
Job Type : Full-Time
Job Number : R00018
Department : Equipment Maintenance Services
Opening Date : 01 / 29 / 2025
Closing Date : 2 / 28 / 2025 11 : 46 AM Eastern
Position Schedule : Monday - Friday
Position Summary
This position is a skilled mechanical position responsible for the maintenance and repair of a wide variety of automotive and heavy equipment. This position performs work on diesel and automotive equipment and is required to perform a variety of physical tasks. This position reports to the Senior Mechanic / Equipment
Supervisor.
Essential Functions & Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- Diagnose and make major repairs to cars, class eight tractors, walking floor trailers, graders, bulldozers, tractors, cranes, loaders, and other heavy and off-road equipment.
- Make minor and major repairs on such items as engines, air brake systems, Allision transmissions, differentials, front and rear suspensions, hydraulic systems, pneumatic undercarriages, electrical and air conditioning systems.
- Inspect, produce diagnostic checks, adjust, or replace necessary units and parts on heavy equipment and automotive vehicles.
- Operate automotive and heavy equipment as necessary.
- Weld and cut various metals to repair SWA equipment.
- Perform tire service and repair on SWA equipment.
- Perform other related work as required.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education, Experience, Certificates and Licenses
The ideal candidate possesses the education and experience listed below.
CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position works outdoors, and the employee is routinely subject to extreme heat, wet and humid conditions, loud noises, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and moving mechanical parts and the risk of electrical shock. On rare occasions, the employee will work indoors and be exposed to high precarious places.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is routinely required to climb on and off heavy trucks and large type heavy off-road equipment. The employee is routinely required to operate equipment and stand, walk, talk, hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is also routinely required to sit, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, lift, and smell. The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 50 pounds and on rare occassion,100 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
The Solid Waste Authority of PBC offers an exceptional benefits package after 60 days of employment which includes employer paid medical, dental, vision, and life insurances, educational assistance, paid holidays, paid sick, paid vacation and retirement benefit through the Florida Retirement System (FRS).
Salary : $50,586 - $88,525