KH Excavation
Overview
Repair and maintain construction equipment and mechanical equipment such as trucks, trailers, bulldozers, excavators, motor graders, engines, motors, pneumatic tools, and other equipment.
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot problems, making economical and durable repairs.
- Dismantle devices to gain access to and remove defective parts using hoists and hand tools.
- Maintain and repair heavy equipment, trucks, shop, and non-mobile equipment on a company-wide basis.
- Service vehicles/equipment to include oil changes, greasing, adding fluids, changing filters and maintaining preventative maintenance schedules.
- Troubleshoot and repair electrical and hydraulic systems, diesel and gasoline engines, transmissions, drive trains, etc.
- Order parts and supplies.
- Operate computer for job functions.
- Repair or replace defective parts.
- Start devices to test their performance.
- Weld broken parts and structural members.
- Maintain a clean and organized work area.
Qualifications
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to work well with others in a group or one on one setting.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, but un-involved written or oral instructions.
- 5 years of experience as a skilled automotive mechanic, including mechanical maintenance experience working with a variety of equipment, especially heavy-duty construction equipment such as (John Deere, Volvo, Yanmar, Mustang, etc.) dozers, excavators, motor graders, water trucks, light-duty support vehicles, and other small engine equipment.