Automotive Diesel Technician
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Automotive Diesel
Technician (Medium/Heavy-duty Truck Technician)
Service Chevrolet, Inc.
Summary
Repairs and maintains
diesel and gasoline engine industrial
trucks according to dealership and factory specifications.
Essential Duties
- Performs work as outlined
on repair order with efficiency and accuracy, in accordance with dealership and
factory standards.
- Diagnoses cause of any malfunction and performs repair.
- Communicates with parts department to obtain needed parts.
- Saves and tags parts of
the job if under warranty or if requested by the customer.
- Examines assigned vehicle
to determine if further safety or
service work is required or recommended.
- Communicates with service advisor/dispatcher
immediately if additional work is needed, if work outlined is not needed, or if
repairs cannot be completed within the promised time.
- Documents all work performed and recommended on the repair order.
- Road tests vehicles when required.
- Participates in manufacturer-sponsored
training programs, schools, and events.
- Keeps abreast of manufacturer technical bulletins.
- Supervises work of any apprentice technicians as assigned.
- Reports machinery defects or malfunctions to supervisor.
- Ensures that vehicle is
kept clean. Notifies service advisor/dispatcher immediately of anything that
has happened to change the appearance
or condition of the vehicle.
- Keeps shop area neat and clean.
- Maintains and is
accountable for all dealership-owned
tools and manuals. Returns them to the proper place and in the same condition
as when they were received.
- Understands, keeps abreast
of and complies with federal, state
and local regulations, such as hazardous waste disposal, OSHA Right-to-Know
etc.
- Operates all tools and equipment in a safe manner.
- Reports any safety issues immediately to management.
- Other tasks as assigned.
Requirements
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must
be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below
are representative of the
knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations
may be made to enable individuals
with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
- Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent from
two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education
and experience.
- Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year
college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Two to four years related experience and/or
training; or equivalent combination
of education and experience.
Language Skills
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to
effectively present information in one-on-one
and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.
- Ability to read and
interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance
instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to write
routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak
effectively before groups of
customers or employees of organization.
Mathematical Skills
- Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with lO's and lOO's.
Ability to perform these operations
using units of American money and
weight measurement, volume, and distance.
- 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 draw and
interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to calculate
figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions,
percentages, area, circumference and
volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Reasoning Ability
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved