Experience Heavy Equipment Technician

Wagner Equipment Co.

$66K — $109K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • Preferred: Graduation from accredited technical school in diesel engine or earthmoving repair
  • 4+ years experience with Caterpillar Equipment or 4-5 years in heavy equipment, engine, or electric power generation repair
  • 1+ years administrative/clerical experience
  • 3+ years of customer service experience

Responsibilities

  • Perform maintenance on new and rebuilt equipment
  • Service and maintain equipment sold or owned by the company
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot machine and engine malfunctions
  • Order replacement parts accurately and completely
  • Prepare and submit inspection and service reports on time
  • Communicate effectively with team members regarding repair status
  • Provide direction and training to service technicians

Benefits

  • $3,000 sign-on bonus
  • 96 hours of Paid Time Off (PTO) plus 8 paid holidays in the first year
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401K and Roth 401K with up to 7% company contribution
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Access to CEFCU services for banking and loans
  • Additional benefits such as supplemental insurance and discounted employee phone plans
Full Job Description
**$3,000 SIGN-ON BONUS & REFERRAL BONUS OPPORTUNITIES (Details given during interview)**

Benefits include:

  • Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan - Up to 96 hours of PTO in your first year + 8 company paid holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Retirement Plans - 401K and Roth 401K , eligible employees can receive a company contribution up to 7%
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • CEFCU - Employees have access to services include payroll deductions savings, accounts, loans, VISA card, and more.
  • Additional Benefits include: Supplemental life Insurance, Critical Illness + Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and discounted employee phone plans.

Pay: $32.00-$52.60 per hour + shift differential
Pay rate is dependent on education and experience

Essential Functions:Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

  • Performs maintenance activities on new and rebuilt/repaired equipment
  • Services and maintains equipment sold and/or owned by the company
    • Removes, disassembles, assembles, and installs components and parts
    • Tests measures, and adjusts engine and machine systems and components
    • Diagnoses and troubleshoots machine and engine malfunctions and failures
  • Makes recommendations as to repairs meeting warranty criteria
  • Orders replacement parts ensuring that parts orders are correct and complete at the time of order
  • Cleans, repairs, reconditions, and maintains equipment and component
  • Prepares accurate and complete inspection, appraisal and service reports, and turns them in on time
  • Communicates effectively with Service Writer, Shop Coordinators and Shop Managers to ensure problems, nature of repair, and status of repairs are understood and followed up on
  • Provides direction, training, mentoring and guidance to assigned service technicians
  • Other duties as assigned by manager


Required Education and Experience:

  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Graduation from an accredited technical school in diesel engine or earthmoving repair preferred
  • 4+ years experience working on Caterpillar Equipment OR 4-5 years in heavy equipment, engine, or electric power generation system repair (EX: Caterpillar, John Deere, Komatsu, Etc.)
  • 1+ years administrative/clerical experience
  • 3+ years customer service experience


Competencies:

  • Safety Knowledge
  • Reading/writing, reasoning, organizational, communication & math skills
  • Caterpillar Product Knowledge
  • Basic ability to search for and enter data into a computer
  • Ability to type service reports


Work Environment:

  • Noise: Loud, Environment: Indoors and Outdoors


Physical Demands:

  • Standing, Walking, Talking, Squatting/Kneeling,
  • Use of Hands, Hearing
  • Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, etc.
  • Heavy work that includes carrying, lifting and/or moving objects up to 100 pounds or more


Other Duties:

Job Offers are contingent upon all required pre-employment screenings which may include but are not limited to background checks, drug/alcohol testing, fit for duty testing, and any other job-related tests/screenings

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

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