Diesel Engine Mechanic

Position Purpose

Under general direction, inspects, repairs, and maintains heavy machines powered by both diesel and gasoline engines.

Essential Functions and Basic Duties

• Inspects defective equipment and diagnoses malfunctions, using test instruments, such as motor analyzers, chassis charts, and pressure gauges.
• Repairs machines or systems using the necessary tools.
• Perform and plans routine maintenance.
• Determines what is causing an operating error and determining appropriate action.
• Determines the type of tools and equipment necessary to complete a job.
• Installs equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
• Conducts tests to determine whether equipment, software, or procedures are operating as expected.
• Inspects and verifies dimensions and clearances of parts to ensure conformance to factory specifications.
• Inspects, repairs, and maintains automotive and mechanical equipment and machinery such as pumps and compressors.
• Disassembles and overhauls internal combustion engines, pumps, generators, transmissions, clutches, and rear ends.
• Reconditions and replaces parts, pistons, bearings, gears, and valves.
• Reads job orders and observes and listens to operating equipment to ensure conformance to specifications or to determine malfunctions.
• Adjust brakes, aligns wheels, and reassembles equipment.
• Changes oil, checks batteries, repairs tires and tubes, and lubricates equipment and machinery.
• Operates valve-grinding machine to grind and reseat valves.
• Examines and adjust protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices.
• Maintains records relating to maintenance of equipment.
• Makes service calls to start vehicles when necessary and assist others as needed.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Training and Experience:

• Graduation from an accredited high school or its equivalent (GED).
• Minimum three (3) to five (5) years in mechanical, hydraulic, diesel, pneumatic, and electrical repairs involving complex equipment, tools, and vehicles.

Special Requirement(s):

• Possession of a valid driver’s license.
• Possession of a valid Class B CDL license.
• Safety-sensitive position is subject to drug screening test.

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of equipment, tools, mechanical devices, and their uses to produce motion, light, power, technology, and other applications.
• Repair and maintenance of mechanical equipment including fixing, servicing, aligning, setting up, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electrical) principles.
• Experience with dump trucks, excavators, recycling equipment, garbage trucks, solid waste compactors, scrapers, wheel tractors, road graders and bulldozers.
• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, forming, positioning, and moving materials, or in manipulating things, including the use of keyboards.
• Identifying information received by making estimates or categorizations, recognizing differences or similarities, or sensing change in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting or diagnosing equipment, structure, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Performing physical activities that require moving one’s whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, where the activities often also require considerable use of arms and legs, such as in the physical handling of materials.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, often to detect problems and determine when processes are complete.
• Combining, evaluating, and reasoning with information and data to make decisions and solve problems. These processes involve making decisions about the relative importance of information and choosing the best solution.
• Evaluating information against a set of standards and verifying that it is correct.
• Staying current technically and knowing job responsibilities and those of related positions.
• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes.
• Conducting or carrying out work procedures and activities in accordance with one’s own ideas or information provided through directions/instructions for purposes of installing, modifying, preparing, delivering, construction, integrating, finishing, or completing programs, systems, structure, or products.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, co-workers, and the general public.

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An Equal Opportunity Employer

We do not discriminate on-the-basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy/childbirth related medical conditions age, or disability or any other protected class. It is our intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, contact City of Glasgow at 270-651-5131.