Team Lead - Mechanic

Location: Kanab, Utah

Hiring Range: This position’s hiring range is anticipated to be $26 per hour to $28 per hour, depending on experience, plus great benefits.

Kanab is in beautiful southern Utah – an outdoor enthusiast's paradise. We are surrounded by world-renowned parks and nature sites such as the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Antelope Canyon, Lake Powell, Horseshoe Bend, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, and many more. If you are looking for a spectacular work-life balance and want to live in the outdoor playground of southern Utah, contact us today!

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Position Summary: This role oversees the day-to-day operations of the Auto Shop, including assigning work orders to mechanics, inventory ordering and control and scheduling and completing repairs in a timely and professional manner. They will cultivate relationships with vendors to ensure procurement of quality equipment, parts and services at competitive prices. The Team Lead ensures proper operation of vehicles and mechanical equipment by inspecting vehicles, determining the mechanical repair needs, performing specified repair and replacing specified parts according to instruction, as well as performing routine vehicle maintenance and inspections. They advise the Maintenance manager on budget requirements and vehicle maintenance needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Treat people around you as our most valuable resource by leading with Kindness and Compassion in all your actions, build trust by demonstrating authenticity and following through on your commitments, encourage self-care and work-life balance through your own example, and work to build strong relationships with your team by creating communication loops to share and receive honest feedback. You are responsible and accountable for the culture of your team.
• Oversees auto shop day to day operations. Troubleshoots and performs repairs and preventative maintenance on vehicles and equipment as needed.
• Maintain various equipment such as tractors, trucks, cars, vans, buses, golf carts and ATVs.
• Maintains and repairs heavy equipment.
• Schedules and organizes work for crew. Training employees in all areas of vehicle repair.
• Provides time and cost estimates of projects.
• Oversees scheduled inventory orders and procurement.
• Works with local dealer Fleet Managers for vehicle and equipment acquisitions.
• Operates, services, cleans, and maintains tools, equipment and vehicles.
• Maintain a safe workplace valuing and modeling safe work practices and communicating about unsafe practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Experience:

• Must have five or more years of mechanic experience, including diagnostic and troubleshooting procedures using an automotive diagnostic computer along with online computer repair software.
• Must have required licenses to operate and service equipment, tools, vehicles, and maintenance equipment skillfully and safely.
• Previous experience supervising or managing employees is preferred, but not required.
• Be able to run the auto shop, scheduling of work, ordering of inventory, and updating of vehicle repair records.
• Preferred to have three or more active ASE certifications in job specific fields.
• Must have your own tools, toolbox and equipment needed to perform all day-to-day repairs.
• Must have advanced knowledge of methods, tools, equipment, and practices used in the automotive industry.
• Work with a positive outlook: upbeat, energetic, and takes initiative.
• A team player, collaborative, willing and able to learn and teach on the job.

Physical Requirements:

• Work indoors and outdoors with the ability to perform physical work requiring coordination, agility, strength, and stamina.
• Work includes heavy lifting (typically up to 80 pounds).
• Prolonged periods of standing; stooping, reaching, crawling, and climbing; manual dexterity.
• Valid driver's license for at least 3 years, ability to qualify to be added to Best Friends insurance, ability to travel, including overnight stays, when needed.
• Work indoors and outdoors in a variety of weather conditions including extreme heat and cold.
• Daily exposure to dogs, cats and other animals of all sizes, temperaments, and medical status.

About Best Friends

Best Friends recently received a 2022 Top Workplaces USA award from Energage. Visit the Best Friends Animal Society page on the Energage Top Workplaces award winners’ site here to learn more. Not only do we take pride in cultivating a welcoming and supportive community and culture for our employees, but we also offer competitive benefits that make it easy to see why we were granted such an awesome award! We offer competitive pay including the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on performance. We offer medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability, paid family leave, dependent care reimbursement, pet sitting reimbursement when traveling for work, flexible spending account, and health savings account. We offer generous paid time off up to 9 hours per month for full time employees, nine paid holidays annually, auto insurance discount, and legal and identity theft coverage. For added well-being support, we offer Pawternity Leave for employees to have time to care for their personal pets, mental health support, and an employee assistance program. We also offer a generous 401k savings plan. Do you want to love where you work and make history and end the killing of shelter pets by 2025? Look no further and apply today!

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends Animal Society is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or domestic partner status.

Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Best Friends Animal Society.