Shop Attendant - CDL

Vehicle Service Attendant:

Responsible for non-skilled work which involves servicing revenue vehicles, support vehicles and equipment.

Vehicle Service Attendant Leader:

Responsible for the same non-skilled work as the vehicle service attendant, but is also responsible for assisting the foreman.

Sign Worker:

Responsible for non-skilled work which involves installation of bus benches, shelters, and route signage, trims trees, performs landscape duties, and cleans and maintains VIA facilities.

Steam Cleaner Operator:

Responsible for non-skilled work which involves steam cleaning parts on revenue vehicles and parts removed from revenue vehicles, support vehicles and equipment. Responsible for cleaning bus yard and garage. Responsible for assisting mechanics perform vehicle preventative maintenance and general repair work.

Tire Changer:

Responsible for non-skilled work which involves changing tires on buses, paratransit vehicles, support vehicles and duties related to cleaning and maintaining VIA facilities.

Shop Attendant:

Responsible for non-skilled work which involves duties related to cleaning revenue vehicles, support vehicles, equipment and duties related to cleaning and maintaining VIA facilities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Vehicle Service Attendant:

• Services revenue vehicles, support vehicles and equipment, checks and services tires, fuel, oil, and coolant levels. Cleans, dusts, washes interior and exterior of revenue and support vehicles. Removes and replaces farebox vaults. Reports vehicle defects and records servicing requirements and other preventative maintenance data. Cleans service station facilities and equipment.

Vehicle Attendant Service Leader:

• Maintains servicing records. Assists Foreman in monitoring the vehicle servicing process and maintaining the security of the system.

Sign Worker:

• Digs post holes and installs route signage. Climbs ladders to update route signage and trim trees. Maintains landscape and operates gas operated weed eaters and push/ride type lawn mowers. Empties garbage cans and replaces garbage bags. Paints route sign posts, shelters, and benches.

Steam Cleaner Operator:

• Steam cleans parts and vehicles with high pressure parts washer. Cleans and maintains garage facilities, equipment and assigned areas of responsibility. Tightens vehicle lugnuts during preventative maintenance inspections. Empties garbage cans throughout the garage, service station, bus yard and VIA facilities. Transports garbage to city refuge site. Empties waste oil receptacles. Crushes used oil filters with filter crushing machine. Assists mechanics with heavy lifting and parts aligning.

Tire Changer:

• Changes wheel/tire assemblies on revenue buses, revenue paratransit vehicles and support vehicles. Washes wheel/tire assemblies. Maintains records on tires. Responds to tire road calls. Cleans VIA's downtown bus stop facilities, using downtown cleaning supply push cart. Cleans bus yard, empties garbage cans and picks up trash. Cleans and details floors, windows, seats, interior, and exterior of revenue buses and revenue paratransit vehicles, cars and trucks.

Shop Attendant:

• Cleans and mops revenue vehicles, support vehicles, and VIA facilities as required. Cleans bus stop locations. Cleans bus and paratransit service station. Cleans equipment, bus ceilings, windows, floors, wheels and scrubs tailgates.
• This non-skilled hourly paid maintenance employee job description excludes marginal functions that are incidental to performing the job. Other duties may exist.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Ability to read and write English effectively. Must have the training and experience which provides the required knowledge, abilities and skills.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have the 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 VIA revenue buses, revenue paratransit vehicles, cars, trucks, tugs, and forklifts.
• Must have the ability to operate automatic and standard shift service vehicles.
• Must have the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees.
• Must have a Texas Commercial Drivers Learners' License (CDL) (Class-B).
• Must have a Texas Commercial Drivers License (CDL) (Class-B) prior to completion of probationary period. Preference given to those already possessing a current CDL Class-A or Class-B license with Passenger Endorsement.
• Must have the ability to maintain and prepare records.
• 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.
• In the event of a sign-up, bump-off or whenever job demands warrant it, Shop Attendants will be required to perform any of the duties within this job description.
• 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.
• All non-skilled hourly paid maintenance employees must be capable of and prepared to perform vehicle service attendant duties upon completion of probationary period.
• Must support VIA's EEO policies

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have the physical ability to occasionally sit, crawl, and be on unprotected heights, and perform fine manipulation. Must have physical ability to continuously kneel, bend, stoop, twist, squat, reach, climb up and down stairs, walk, stand, and use foot controls; perform simple to hard grasping, forearm rotational movement, 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 the 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 the physical ability to perform repetitive motions throughout the work day which involve continuous body movement, force exertion, and balancing such as: lifting typical bus parts, lifting and closing bus tail gates, lifting and closing paratransit vehicle tilt front engine covers, lifting, twisting, pushing and pulling farebox vaults, opening and closing bus windows, climbing up and down bus steps, lifting cement bags, removing and installing streetcar wheel panels, removing and replacing bus wheel/tire assemblies, pushing downtown cleaning supply cart, moving furniture, mopping floors, cleaning interior and exterior bus windows, shoveling dirt/trash, stooping to check fuel tank gauges on propane vehicles, climbing ladders at least 10 ft. high and performing duties at unprotected heights such as tree trimming and cleaning windows, and operating a one (1) inch air impact wrench while bending to change bus wheel/tire assemblies.
• 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.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: