Equipment Mechanic (Driver License Required) - ATE

Job Title: Equipment Mechanic

This position provides regular servicing, maintenance, and repairs to heavy equipment and tools.

Are you a real go-getter looking for an amazing opportunity with a nationwide full-service-utility contractor offering competitive wages and incredible benefits? Keep reading because this job might be for you!

Since 1928, Asplundh has been dedicated to safe, efficient and innovative line clearance services to the utility industry. Reliable, uninterrupted power is an important service provided by the world's electrical utilities and Asplundh has the expertise to help keep the power flowing. Diversification over the years has opened up vegetation management services to other specialized markets such as municipalities, railroads, pipelines, helicopter vegetation services, and departments of transportation.

A family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asplundh has grown to employ over 36,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Job Type: Full-Time , Non-Exempt

Pay: Competitive, Hourly

Benefits:

• Benefits Available and Vary per position and location

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Handles all necessary repairs including the replacement of worn or damaged parts.
• Provides regular servicing including using jacks, cranes, and various handheld tools to dismantle and reassemble areas of heavy equipment.
• Makes adjustments to engines, as well as any additional assemblies such as gear transmissions and hydraulic.
• Examines critical parts and operating components of heavy equipment for possible wear and tear, defects, or other damage with the use of specialized tools, and trained eyes and ears.
• Tests equipment and machines on a regular schedule to ensure things are operating efficiently and safely.
• Cleans all components using approved solvents formulated for heavy equipment.
• Checks for components and parts that need to be welded and then, with a gas or electric welder, perform the work.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be able to safely drive an approved company vehicle.
• Experience working on and/or repairing Hydraulic systems on fleet vehicles preferred.
• Must be able to operate the type of machinery being worked on.

Education & Experience

• Automotive Service Excellence Mechanics Certification (A.S.E Certification) preferred.
• Certification for Fleet Repairs / Maintenance preferred.
• Certification for Welding preferred.
• Certification for Aerial Device Repairs / Maintenance preferred.

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

License & Certifications:

• Driver's license required.

Travel Requirements:

• Must have transportation to and from the show-up location.

Physical Requirements:

• RARE (less than 10%): walking, sitting, climbing poles, climbing ladders, climbing stairs.
• OCCASIONAL (up to 33%): kneeling, crawling, speaking clearly, climbing on/off truck, reading, hearing-speech range, color vision, carrying, pushing, pulling, lifting up to 50 lbs.
• FREQUENT (up to 66%): standing, stooping, squatting, body twisting, sense of touch, manual dexterity, seeing distant, gripping, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., reaching, range of motion, depth perception, balancing.
• CONTINUOUS (up to 100%): seeing, lifting, lifting up to 10 lbs.

Safety

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of the industry and requirements to work with or around hazardous equipment, employees must have sufficient eyesight to judge distance/coordination of equipment and tools, be able to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods, be able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather while completing work assignments, be able to wear personal protective equipment as necessary, be able to enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day, have the endurance necessary to traverse various terrain, be capable of performing job duties throughout a standard 8- or 10-hour day, be able to communicate with others, read, write, and comprehend written/verbal job instructions and information, and communicate and handle conflict professionally.

• Works around moving equipment.
• Works in tight spaces.
• Works with hazardous tools, i.e., welding torch.

About Us:

As a full-service utility contractor Asplundh performs tree pruning and removals, right-of-way clearing and maintenance, vegetation management with herbicides and emergency storm work and logistical support. Asplundh is the parent company of Asplundh Infrastructure Group whose subsidiaries provide overhead and underground line construction, planning and design, meter reading and AMR/AMI installation, electrical testing, and street lighting/traffic signal services. Asplundh also operates Rotor Blade Airborne Utilities Management, overhead electric distribution and transmission lines using MD 500 helicopters.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without a reasonable accommodation.  Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.