What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fleet Diesel Equipment Specialist position at Performance Foodservice?
Fleet Diesel Equipment Specialist
The Fleet Diesel Equipment Specialist is responsible for maintaining, repairing, and overhauling diesel equipment in a safe and compliant manner. This role involves preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and documentation of repairs while ensuring that all vehicles meet safety standards.
Key responsibilities include performing preventative maintenance on medium to heavy-duty trucks, trailers, refrigeration units, and convertor dollies. The specialist must ensure equipment has required licensing and registration prior to being deemed as 'roadworthy'. Additionally, thorough documentation for work orders of repairs and preventative maintenance must be completed through the online Enterprise Asset Management system.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Completes and performs preventative maintenance on minor repairs and standard component inspections/repairs of fleet diesel equipment (tractors, trailers, refrigeration units). Identifies root cause of basic failures/conditions and performs repairs as required.
- Ensures equipment has required licensing and registration prior to being deemed as 'roadworthy'.
- Completes thorough documentation for work orders of repairs and preventative maintenance through the online Enterprise Asset Management system.
- Installs, replaces, and repairs onboard computers.
- Inspects brake systems, steering mechanisms, wheel bearings, and other important parts to ensure that they are in proper operating condition which may require replacement of parts.
- Performs routine maintenance such as changing oil, checking batteries and lubricating equipment and machinery requiring the use of hand tools such as screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches, pressure gauges, and precision instruments, as well as power tools such as pneumatic wrenches, welding equipment, and jacks and hoists.
- Trains/provides guidance to other Mechanics.
