Diesel Engine Technician

City of Glasgow is seeking a highly skilled Diesel Engine Mechanic to join our team. As a Diesel Engine Mechanic, you will be responsible for inspecting, repairing, and maintaining heavy machines powered by both diesel and gasoline engines.

• Inspect defective equipment and diagnose malfunctions using test instruments.
• Repair machines or systems using the necessary tools.
• Perform routine maintenance and determine what is causing an operating error.
• Determine the type of tools and equipment necessary to complete a job.
• Install equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
• Conduct tests to determine whether equipment, software, or procedures are operating as expected.
• Inspect and verify dimensions and clearances of parts to ensure conformance to factory specifications.
• Inspect, repair, and maintain automotive and mechanical equipment and machinery.
• Disassemble and overhaul internal combustion engines, pumps, generators, transmissions, clutches, and rear ends.
• Recondition and replace parts, pistons, bearings, gears, and valves.
• Read job orders and observe and listen to operating equipment to ensure conformance to specifications or to determine malfunctions.
• Adjust brakes, align wheels, and reassemble equipment.
• Change oil, check batteries, repair tires and tubes, and lubricate equipment and machinery.
• Operate valve-grinding machine to grind and reseat valves.
• Examine and adjust protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices.
• Maintain records relating to maintenance of equipment.
• Makes service calls to start vehicles when necessary and assist others as needed.

• 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.

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

• 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.
• 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.