Assistant Mechanic; JETS

Assistant Mechanic (JETS) – City of Jonesboro, AR

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$5,000.00/yr – $/yr

Title:

Assistant Mechanic (JETS)

Exempt:
No

Department: JETS

Reports To:

Transit Field Supervisor

Location:

JETS Administrative and Operations Facility/JETS Mechanics Shop

Safety Sensitive:
This position is designated as safety/security sensitive and is subject to pre‑employment, reasonable suspicion, and random drug and alcohol screening.

General Description:

This safety‑sensitive position (SS) is to assist JETS mechanic(s) with vehicle and equipment repair work on transit buses, vans, vehicles, and related equipment and to serve as a relief transit driver in certain situations.

• Perform preventative and routine maintenance and inspections as required. This duty is performed monthly.
• Change tires, fluids, belts, lights, oil, and replace filters, hydraulic filters, fuel filters, air filters, and lubricating equipment. This duty is performed daily.
• Maintain accurate repair and service records on vehicles and equipment. This duty is performed daily.
• Prepare purchase orders for maintenance parts, equipment, and supplies. This duty is performed as needed.
• Make service calls as needed for routine and emergency repairs and parts pickup. This duty is performed daily.
• Maintain an orderly and clean shop. This duty is performed daily.
• Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions. Serve as a relief transit driver as needed.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Education and Experience:

High school or GED, plus specialized schooling and/or on‑the‑job education in a specific skill area; e.g. data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc., plus 7 to 11 months of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Communication

Skills:

Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

Mathematical

Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.

Critical Thinking

Skills:

Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature.

Required Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: CDL license to operate assigned vehicle, Valid Driver License.

Preferred Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
None.

Software

Skills Required:

Basic word processing/typing.

Initiative and Ingenuity: —

Supervision Received: Under immediate supervision, with short assignments of work at frequent intervals with regular checks of work.

Planning: Limited responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations.

Decision Making: Performs work operations that permit frequent opportunities for decision‑making of minor importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved but would also affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.

Mental Demand: Light mental demand. Operations requiring intermittent directed thinking to carry out a predetermined procedure or sequence of operations of limited variability. Operations requiring intermittent attention to control machine or manual motions.

Analytical Ability / Problem Solving: Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations that conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

Responsibility For Work Of Others: not indicated.

Responsibility for Funds, Property and Equipment: Occasionally responsible for an organization’s property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation would…