Mechanic - Fleet Maintenance

Responsible for effectively and efficiently diagnosing and repairing mechanical failures of revenue buses, revenue paratransit vehicles, cars, trucks, plant facilities and related equipment, and public transportation related structures and associated equipment both on and off VIA property. Responsible for performing preventive maintenance inspections of VIA owned equipment and facilities to ensure a satisfactory level of mechanical integrity.

Responsible for the design and fabrication of structures and equipment related to vehicle repair or services required of a public transportation entity.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Shop Repairman - (Mechanic, Bodyman, Painter, Welder, Machinist, Radiator Repairman, Electronic Technician, Plant Repairman, Wood Shop Repairman):  Performs skilled work in one or more areas of vehicle maintenance, plant facilities and equipment repair.

Shop Repairman Leader:  Performs the same skilled work as Shop Repairman and is responsible for assisting the Foreman. Performs duties of the Foreman during his absence.

Shop Helper:  Performs same skilled work as Shop Repairman but works under close supervision.

This skilled hourly paid maintenance employee job description excludes marginal functions that are incidental to performing the job. Other duties may exist.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Must be able to read and write English effectively. Ability to perform simple mathematics. Must have the training and experience which provides the required knowledge, abilities and skills to perform the jobs listed in the general description of work.

Shop Repairman and Repairman Leaders must possess the experience required in performing assigned work in specialized field.

Shop Helpers require less knowledge and experience than the Facility Repairman but must have at least three years of full-time verifiable work experience as a mechanic in anyfield or have a Certificate of Completion from an approved Trade School or College in facility maintenance, plant maintenance, or a similar field of study or have successfully completed VIA's Targeted Maintenance Training Program. A Shop Helper is an experienced person in a specialized field when hired but is required to progress to Repairman as skill increases to required level.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must furnish own hand tools.
• Must have ability to acquire knowledge of job and occupational hazards and safety precautions required in the shops.
• Must have the ability to safely operate and drive revenue buses, revenue paratransit vehicles, cars, trucks, tugs, and forklifts.
• Must have the ability to operate automatic and standard shift service vehicles.
• Must have ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees.
• Job requires all Bodymen to be certified State Safety Vehicle Inspectors and obtain such certification prior to completion of probationary period and obtain recertification as deemed necessary by Texas Department of Public Safety.
• Must have a Texas Commercial Drivers Learners License (CDL) (Class-B).
• Must have a Texas Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) (Class-B) prior to completion of probationary period.
• Must have the ability to read, understand, maintain and prepare records on jobs performed.
• Must have the ability to perform job assignments while wearing mandatory safety equipment such as respirators, safety glasses/goggles/face-shields, gloves, and back protection belts.
• Must have ability to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to maintain good work attendance.
• Safety Accountability Statement:
• • Employees must consider safety in all tasks performed, as well as demonstrate safe judgment and decisions that not only maintain their own safety; but that of fellow employees and customers.
  • Demonstrate a professional commitment to assure compliance with all organizational policies, practices and programs; related to safety, health, and system security.
  • Employees have a responsibility to identify and report hazards, as well as potentially unsafe conditions, to your immediate supervisor or Safety Department.
  • Employees are responsible, and required, to stop a job/task to prevent an unsafe incident or act from occurring. This acknowledges the threat of potential injury, property damage and the opportunity for better judgment to be used.
• Must support VIA’s EEO and Diversity Program.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have physical ability to occasionally sit, crawl and be on unprotected heights. Must have physical ability to continuously kneel, bend, stoop, twist, squat, reach, climb up and down stairs, walk, stand, and use foot controls; perform fine manipulation, medium dexterity, forearm rotational movement, and simple to hard grasping, be around moving machinery;
• work in environments of extremes in temperature/humidity, with constant exposure to dust, fumes, gases, noise, and welding arc flash (mandatory safety equipment must be utilized when exposed to hazardous conditions.)
• Must have physical ability to occasionally lift/carry 100 lbs., push/pull 110 lbs. Ability to frequently lift/carry 35 lbs., push/pull 50 lbs. Ability to continuously lift/carry 25 lbs., push/pull 35 lbs.
• Must have physical ability to perform repetitive motions simultaneously or singly throughout the work day which involve continuous body movement, and force exertion. This includes force exertion: with arms extended overhead and forward, head tilted forward or backward, squatting, kneeling, lifting, pushing, pulling, twisting and balancing. Examples of these types of force exertion positions include: lifting typical bus parts, lifting and closing bus tail gates, lifting and closing paratransit vehicle tilt front engine covers, lifting electrical motors, lifting and carrying large ladders, opening and closing bus windows, climbing up and down bus steps, removing and installing streetcar wheel panels, removing and replacing bus wheel assemblies, stooping to check fuel tank gauges on propane vehicles, climbing ladders at least 10 ft. high and performing duties at unprotected heights, operating a one (1) inch air impact wrench while bending to change bus wheel/tire assemblies, removing and replacing bus drive shafts, water pumps, mufflers, starters, brake application valves, differential radius rods, air conditioner compressors, window frame assemblies, batteries, and torquing engine flywheels and kingpin bolts.
• Must have sufficient color vision to identify colors of electrical wires used in the repair and maintenance of motor vehicles and related equipment. These colors primarily include: red, blue, yellow, orange, green, purple, black, white, brown, gray, tan and pink.
• Job requires use of both hands either simultaneously or singly and both feet are required for foot controls either simultaneously or singly.
• Job cannot be performed by alternating sitting or standing. Must be able to hear safety and emergency horns.
• Visual acuity (corrected) must be 20/40 single eye, 20/40 both eyes; 70 degrees field of vision; red/yellow/green color vision. Standards apply to both day and night vision.