Position Summary:

The Mechanic is responsible for the repairs of trucks and trailers, replacing needed parts, and providing an excellent customer experience.

Essential Job Functions:

Perform routine preventative maintenance on trucks, such as checking batteries and changing oil to ensure proper vehicle maintenance.
Inspect various parts of trucks, including brake systems, wheel bearings and steering mechanisms to ensure they are in the proper condition to operate effectively.
Use different tooling and equipment, such as pressure gauges, pneumatic wrenches, welding equipment, hoists and jacks, to repair trucks while constantly exercising safety precautions.
Diagnose malfunctions in equipment by inspecting and testing using devises such as motor analyzers, handheld computers and chassis charts to determine how to address problems.
Test drive vehicles to ensure they are running properly and to find issues to determine what the solution will be.
Conduct repairs that include replacing auto parts, valves, bearings and gears as needed and repair vehicle cooling and heating systems.
Measure vehicle emissions to ensure they are in the proper limits.
Ensure parts conform to factory specifications by inspecting and verifying clearances and dimensions.
Provide excellence customer service to every customer who visits Cornhusker Truck Center.
Must have own hand tools.
Keep the shop area picked up, clean, and safe.
Check tractor/trailers on the lot for obvious maintenance concerns for customers.
All other duties as assigned.

Preferred Talents:

Organization skills.
Mechanical skills and knowledge of mechanical systems and diagnostic repairs.
Customer service skills.
Problem-solving.

Qualifications:

High school diploma or equivalent, required.
Obtain CDL within the first 6 months of employment.
Technical certification or degree, preferred.
Experience working with diagnostic computers, preferred.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands or arms, climb or balance, talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 100 pounds occasionally.

Working Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be exposed to indoor conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person

Cornhusker Truck Center

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