Apprentice Diesel Technician
Company: Wagner Equipment
Location: Grand Junction
Posted on: April 28, 2024
Job Description:
Would you like to be part of a focused, dedicated team? Do you
want to work and grow with other motivated, ambitious people?
Wagner Equipment Co. offers challenging career opportunities,
extensive training and employee development along with an
opportunity to grow your career and thrive under Wagner's
reputation for excellence. We offer excellent benefits and supply
you with the tools you need to maximize your potential and grow
within Wagner.
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- Citizens Equity First Credit Union - Employees have
access to services include payroll deductions savings, accounts,
loans, VISA card, and more.
- Additional Benefits include: Unum Supplemental life Insurance,
Aflac Critical Illness + Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and
discounted employee phone plans. Under direct supervision, the
Apprentice Technician is responsible for the diagnosis, repair,
reconditioning, overhaul and maintenance of customer and company
heavy equipment and/or components. Depending on location and
assignment, this position will be responsible for some or all of
the functions and duties listed below. The Apprentice Technician
will perform work at 150% of the standard productivity times
expected of a Journey Technician. Working as one professional team
delivering quality solutions to every customer.
Important Dates:
- Application deadline: April 5, 2024
- Program Start Date: June 17, 2024 Pay rate: $22.00 per hour
Pay rate is dependent upon education & experience. Employee
benefits will be discussed upon hire.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Prepares accurate and complete service reports and turns them
in on time
- Prepares inspection and appraisal reports
- Correctly charges work to appropriate work order segments
- Successfully completes all classes at the partner Community
College for the region in which the Apprentice is sponsored
- Communicates effectively with Apprentice Coordinator, Service
Writers, Shop Coordinators and Shop Managers to ensure problems,
nature and status of repairs are understood and followed up on
- Communicates effectively with College Instructors, Apprentice
Coordinator, and Managers to ensure successful completion of the
required college coursework
- Works in a cooperative manner with other team members to
accomplish the goals of the shop, classroom, and company
- Cleans, repairs, reconditions, and maintains equipment and
components
- Prepares, inspects, and ensures proper operation of machines
prior to delivery
- Removes, disassembles, assembles, and installs components and
parts
- Determines reusability of parts in accordance with published
Caterpillar guidelines
- Orders replacement parts, ensuring that parts orders are
correct and complete at the time of order
- Services and maintains equipment sold and/or owned by the
company
- Tests measures, and adjusts engine and machine systems and
components
- Diagnoses and troubleshoots machine and engine malfunctions and
failures
- Analyzes customer repair and maintenance requirements
- Keeps up to date with developments in tooling, technologies and
systems
- Uses safe working practices and follows all company safety
requirements
- Maintains a clean and organized work area
- Makes recommendations as to repairs meeting warranty
criteria
- Makes parts replacement decisions assuring optimum economic
reusability
- Other duties as assigned by Manager Required Education &
Experience:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Can show an interest in working on cars, trucks, motorcycles,
etc. An automotive or diesel course in High School, and/or a job as
an entry level Technician preferred. Strongly Preferred:
- An automotive or diesel course in High School
- Experience as an entry level technician
- 1-3 years administrative/clerical experience
- 1-3 years customer service experience
- 1-3 years Technical or mechanical experience Physical Demands &
Competencies:
- Standing, walking, talking, sitting, use of hands &
hearing
- Heavy work that includes lifting and/or moving objects up to 96
pounds or more
- Data Entry, telephone, reading/writing, reasoning,
organizational, communication & math skills
- Safety & Product Knowledge
- Basic ability to search for and enter data into a computer.
Ability to type service reports Work Environment:
- Nosie: Loud
- Environment: Indoors/Outdoors
- Specific Risks: Works with moving, mechanical parts; may work
in high places and be exposed to equipment vibration and fumes.
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.
Wagner Equipment Co. is an EEO/AA/Veterans/Disabled employer.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner
discriminate against employees or applicants because they have
inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of
another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access
to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as
a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of
other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise
have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is
(a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance
of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an
investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the
contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR
60-1.35(c)
Keywords: Wagner Equipment, Grand Junction , Apprentice Diesel Technician, Professions , Grand Junction, Colorado
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