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. This role requires less than two years of experience and relies on immediate supervision and established guidelines.
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
- 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
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities
- Requires regular and punctual employee attendance
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Must have/acquire basic mechanic hand and pneumatic tools (metric/standard)
- One or more years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is preferred
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
- 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
- Be able to maneuver safely and work underneath equipment
- Routinely reacts to visual, auditory, and other signals, including alarms and instructions
- Visually inspects work
- 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)
