What are the responsibilities and job description for the Shock Technician position at Hendrick Motorsports?
Hendrick Motorsports
Location: 4400 Papa Joe Hendrick Blvd, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262
Hendrick Motorsports is currently seeking a Shock Technician to join our team. The Shock Technician will play a key role in ensuring the performance, maintenance, and optimization of all shock and related components used in the team's race cars. This individual will work closely with race teams to set up and tune shocks to the desired specifications with a high attention to detail.
Hendrick Motorsports is currently seeking a Shock Technician to join our team. The Shock Technician will play a key role in ensuring the performance, maintenance, and optimization of all shock and related components used in the team's race cars. This individual will work closely with race teams to set up and tune shocks to the desired specifications with a high attention to detail.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Regularly inspect, maintain, and repair shocks to ensure they are in top working condition. Perform routine tear-downs, rebuilds, and replacements as needed.
- Uses a shock dynamometer to test shocks to verify they match desired specifications.
- Maintains spring inventory including weekly inspection and rating.
- Utilizes database to record measurements and track component mileage for reference.
- Assists in the management of parts inventory relating to shocks and related components.
- Ability to operate and interpret shock dyno graphs.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
- Accountability - Accept responsibility and account for his/her own actions.
- Accuracy - Perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Analytical Skills - Possess critical thinking and reasoning skills to solve a problem.
- Collaboration - Collaborates with other individuals and/ or departments to achieve a common goal.
- Competitiveness - Willingness to strive to be the best and to finish projects ahead of schedule.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
- Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
- Detail Oriented - Pays attention to the minute details of a project or task.
- Innovative - Ability to look beyond the standard solutions.
- Multi-Task - Exercises the ability to work on several items simultaneously.
- Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
- Problem Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
- Project Management - Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.
- Quality Work - Responsible for producing quality, to specification work.
- Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
- Research Skills - Ability to design and conduct a systematic, objective, and critical investigation.
- Self-Motivated - Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his or her own drive or initiative.
- Systems Analysis - Ability to determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
- Troubleshooting - Determining the causes of operating errors and deciding the action to take.
- Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks in stressful situations.
Skills & Abilities:
- Education: High School diploma or equivalent: Required
- Experience: 1 plus years of experience
- Computer Skills: Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Other Requirements: Mechanical experience in a related field and industry. Ability to understand and follow instructions. Ability to communicate effectively. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Required to talk and hear, as well as frequently reach with hands and arms.
Hendrick is an Equal Opportunity employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information regarding the EEOC, please visit
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf
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