About the Role
This entry-level position involves performing basic inspections, diagnoses, and repairs of heavy equipment. You will work as part of a team to provide essential mechanical services, satisfying customer needs and achieving departmental goals.
Responsibilities
- Performs basic troubleshooting and diagnosing of equipment malfunctions and failures
- Assists in the rebuilding, repairing, and maintaining of equipment and components
- Learns how to plan equipment and component repairs
- Learns how to complete parts orders and identify parts for return
- Maintains all equipment and work areas in good, clean, and orderly condition
- Completes all documents associated with repairs in a timely manner
- Works safely at all times and adheres to all applicable safety policies
- Complies with all company policies, procedures, and standards
- Works overtime as required by workload and customers’ needs
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, e.g., ProTech Technician Training Paths
- Requires regular and punctual employee attendance
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Must have/acquire basic mechanic hand and pneumatic tools (metric/standard)
- Must be able to move objects, and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue
- Frequently moves materials or equipment weighing up to 50 pounds
- Requires good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina
- Ascends/descends with gradual or continuous progress by oneself, using both hands and feet and climbs up and down ladders and/or equipment
- Able to maneuver safely and work underneath equipment
- Routinely reacts to visual, auditory, and other signals, including alarms and instructions
- Required to visually inspect work
- Regularly works indoors around moving mechanical parts
- May be exposed to weather extremes when working outside in conditions that include inclement weather, heat, cold, and humidity
- Noise level may be loud at times
- Exposure to small quantities of chemicals, dust, steam, high-pressure water, and high speed rotating equipment
- Requires wearing common protective or safety equipment
- Required to perform work in cramped spaces and/or high places
Skills
- General knowledge of equipment and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance
- Proficiency with current computer software, related hardware, and machine electronic systems
- Operation and control skills
- Equipment selection skills
- Ability to operate a conventional forklift
- Ability to operate hand tools, power tools, pneumatic tools, and equipment used in mechanical repair
- Ability to quickly and repeatedly operate the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact position
- Ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects
- Ability to read, write, and understand information
- Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
Location
- TFR - South Austin
Work Type
- Full Time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- Less than two years of experience
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
About the Company
- Texas First Rentals (TFR)
