Assistant Mechanic

Assistant Mechanic

Job Description

Exempt: No

Department: JETS

Reports To: Transit Field Supervisor

Location: JETS Administrative and Operations Facility/JETS Mechanics Shop

Safety Sensitive: This position is designated as safety/security sensitive and is subject to pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, and random drug and alcohol screening.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

This safety-sensitive position (SS) is to assist JETS mechanic(s) with vehicle and equipment repair work on transit buses, vans, vehicles, and related equipment AND to serve as a relief transit driver in certain situations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Perform preventative and routine maintenance and inspections as required. This duty is performed monthly.

2. Change tires, fluids, belts, lights, oil, and replace filters, hydraulic filters, fuel filters, air filters, and lubricating equipment. This duty is performed daily.

3. Maintain accurate repair and service records on vehicles and equipment. This duty is performed daily.

4. Prepare purchase orders for maintenance parts, equipment, and supplies. This duty is performed as needed.

5. Make service calls as needed for routine and emergency repairs and parts pickup. This duty is performed daily.

6. Maintain an orderly and clean shop. This duty is performed daily.

7. Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions. Serve as a relief transit driver as needed.

8. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

High school or GED, plus specialized schooling and/or on-the-job education in a specific skill area; e.g. data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc., plus 7 to 11 months of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

CDL license to operate assigned vehicle, Valid Driver License

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None

SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED

Basic: Word Processing/Typing

INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

Under immediate supervision, with short assignments of work at frequent intervals with regular checks of work.

PLANNING

Limited responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

DECISION MAKING

Performs work operations that permit frequent opportunities for decision-making of minor importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved but would also affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.

MENTAL DEMAND

Light mental demand. Operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to carry out a predetermined procedure or sequence of operations of limited variability. Operations requiring intermittent attention to control machine or manual motions.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING

Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations that conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS

Responsibility for work of others: not indicated.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT

Occasionally responsible for an organization's property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation would result in moderate damage or moderate monetary loss to the organization. The total value for the above would range from $5,000 to $150,000.

ACCURACY

Probable errors of internal scope should ordinarily be detected within the department or office in which they occur, but may affect the work of others within the unit, requiring additional expenditure of time to trace errors and make all necessary corrections. Errors would require a moderate amount of time to correct.

ACCOUNTABILITY

FREEDOM TO ACT

Defined. Semi-repetitive prescribed processes and procedures with nearby supervision.

ANNUAL MONETARY IMPACT

The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties and responsibilities. Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of organization funds, expense control, and savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.

None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.

IMPACT ON END RESULTS

Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organization's end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitate decision-making by others.

PUBLIC CONTACT

Occasional routine contacts with persons outside the organization. This would include contacts with suppliers, mail service, etc.

EMPLOYEE CONTACT

Contacts of little importance and usually with immediate associates only. Requires only ordinary courtesy to avoid friction in relationships incidental to working with others.

USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS

Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/cdl, etc.)

WORKING CONDITIONS

Periodically exposed to such elements as noise, intermittent standing, walking, pushing, carrying, or lifting; but none are present to the extent of being disagreeable.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions, and occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

Moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities that allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks, which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk or hear; regularly required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

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