Baler Systems Mechanic
City of Casper · Casper, WY · Today
Full-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We need to extract substantive info.
Let's parse the posting.
Key info:
- Class Summary Assigned to: Solid Waste Schedule (maybe schedule info)
- This position is regularly scheduled Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with a 30-minute unpaid meal break. To support major maintenance projects and operations during extreme weather conditions, occasional early morning shifts are required. These shifts are 4:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., with a 30-minute unpaid meal break, and typically occur approximately 10% of the work year.
- Applications are being accepted now. Interviews will be scheduled throughout the recruitment process. Selected candidate will begin employment on January 11, 2027. (application instructions - we must drop application instructions)
- Keep Casper Moving—One Bale at a Time. (tagline)
- The City of Casper Solid Waste Facility is home to one of the region's most important pieces of infrastructure. Every day, our baler processes thousands of tons of recyclable materials, helping serve our community efficiently and sustainably. We're looking for an experienced mechanic who enjoys solving complex mechanical problems, fabricating solutions, and keeping essential equipment operating safely and reliably. If you have a strong background in industrial maintenance, heavy equipment, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, aggregates, or similar industries, we encourage you to apply. Prior baler experience is helpful, but not required. We are looking for someone with exceptional mechanical aptitude, welding and fabrication skills, and a passion for troubleshooting complex systems.
- What You'll Do As the Baler Systems Mechanic, you'll be responsible for maintaining, repairing, and troubleshooting the Solid Waste Facility's baler and related equipment. Your work will include: Diagnosing and repairing complex mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and gas systems. Performing preventive maintenance to maximize equipment reliability. Fabricating and repairing components using welding equipment and a plasma table. Troubleshooting mechanical failures and identifying long-term solutions. Coordinating the ordering of parts and maintaining repair records. Maintaining forklifts, loaders, and other support equipment as needed. Operating specialized tools, diagnostic equipment, welders, forklifts, skid steers, and other heavy equipment. Working safely while supporting the City's commitment to exceptional public service.
- We're Looking For Someone Who Has Extensive experience diagnosing and repairing industrial mechanical equipment. Strong welding and metal fabrication skills. Experience with hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical systems. Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities. The ability to work independently and manage maintenance priorities. A commitment to workplace safety and preventative maintenance. Experience maintaining equipment in industries such as manufacturing, mining, recycling, heavy equipment, oil and gas, construction, or industrial processing is highly desirable. If you're an experienced mechanic looking for a challenging and rewarding career where your skills truly make a difference, we'd like to hear from you.
- Why Join the City of Casper? This is a unique opportunity to build a long-term career maintaining one of the City's most specialized and mission-critical operations. You'll enjoy meaningful work, a collaborative team environment, competitive pay and benefits, opportunities for continued technical development, and the satisfaction of knowing your expertise keeps essential public services operating every day.
- Incumbent is responsible for performing a variety of skilled maintenance, repair and service of baler machinery and equipment.
- REPORTING STRUCTURE: Receives direction from the Solid Waste Superintendent or higher level management.
- Typical Class Essential Duties (list)
- Knowledge (position Requirements At Entry) (list)
- Abilities (position Requirements At Entry) (list)
- Skills (position Requirements At Entry) (list)
- Training, Experience & Certifications (Education, Experience, Licensing & Certifications)
- Supplemental Information & Physical Requirements (physical demands, environment, etc.)
We need to map to sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what goes where.
- About the role: could be the introductory paragraph about the facility, mission, what the role entails generally. Could include "Keep Casper Moving—One Bale at a Time." and description of facility.
- Responsibilities: the "What You'll Do" list and maybe "Incumbent is responsible for performing a variety of skilled maintenance..." and "Typical Class Essential Duties". Could combine.
- Requirements: maybe the "Knowledge", "Abilities", "Skills"? Actually "Requirements" could be the knowledge/abilities/skills needed. But we also have separate "Skills" section. The instruction says use headings for: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Skills. So we need to differentiate Requirements vs Qualifications vs Skills. Typically Requirements could be education/experience, certifications. Qualifications could be knowledge/abilities. Skills could be specific skill list. But we need to follow instruction: include a section only when posting has real specific content for it. So we need to see if we have content for each.
Let's extract:
Education/Experience/Training: "High school diploma or equivalent (G.E.D.) required. Minimum of five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience performing mechanical maintenance, service, and repair or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed below." Also "Possession of, or ability to obtain, a trade certification for baler services is preferred. American Welding Inspector (AWS) certification preferred." That's qualifications/experience.
Knowledge: list of knowledge items.
Abilities: list of abilities.
Skills: list of skills.
Thus we could map:
- About the role: introductory paragraphs about facility and mission.
- Responsibilities: "What You'll Do" list plus maybe "Incumbent is responsible for performing a variety of skilled maintenance..." and "Typical Class Essential Duties".
- Requirements: Education, Experience, Certifications (maybe also licensing). Could also include "REPORTING STRUCTURE" but that's not a requirement.
- Qualifications: Knowledge and Abilities (maybe combined). Or we could separate Knowledge as Qualifications and Abilities as Requirements? But we need to avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting has sections labeled "Knowledge (position Requirements At Entry)", "Abilities (position Requirements At Entry)", "Skills (position Requirements At Entry)". So they treat Knowledge, Abilities, Skills as subsets of Requirements. But the instruction wants separate headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Might be overlapping. We need to decide a sensible mapping that uses the content without inventing.
We could assign:
- Requirements: Education, Experience, Certifications (the "Training, Experience & Certifications").
- Qualifications: Knowledge and Abilities (combined).
- Skills: Skills list.
But we also have a separate "Skills" heading already in the list; we must not duplicate content. So we will put the skills list under Skills heading.
Now Benefits, Pay, Schedule: we need to see if posting mentions benefits, pay, schedule.
Schedule: we have schedule info in the class summary: Monday-Friday 6am-2:30pm with 30 min unpaid break, occasional early morning shifts 4:30am-1pm, 10% of work year. That's schedule specifics. So we can create a Schedule section.
Benefits: The posting mentions "competitive pay and benefits" under Why Join the City of Casper. Also maybe "opportunities for continued technical development". But no explicit benefits like health insurance, retirement, etc. The phrase "competitive pay and benefits" is generic but still mentions benefits. However instruction says: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state "competitive pay and benefits". That's a statement about benefits existing, but not specific. Is that enough? It says "competitive pay and benefits". That is a mention of benefits, albeit vague. The instruction says: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state benefits (competitive pay and benefits). So we can include Benefits section with that statement? But we should avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". "competitive pay and benefits" is not filler; it's a statement. However we might want to elaborate if there is more detail. There's no further detail. So we could include a Benefits section with a short paragraph: "Competitive pay and benefits are offered." That's preserving the info.
Pay: The posting does not state specific pay amount. It mentions "competitive pay". That's a statement about pay but not specific. The instruction says: never create Pay section unless posting actually states them. It does state "competitive pay". That's a statement about pay, albeit not a number. Is that enough? It says "competitive pay". That is a mention of pay. The instruction says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state pay (competitive pay). So we could include Pay section with that statement. However we must avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". "competitive pay" is not filler but it's vague. I'd say we can include Pay section with that statement.
But we also have schedule already.
Now we need to ensure we don't repeat content across sections.
Let's draft sections:
About the role: Could combine the tagline and facility description: "Keep Casper Moving—One Bale at a Time. The City of Casper Solid Waste Facility is home to one of the region's most important pieces of infrastructure. Every day, our baler processes thousands of tons of recyclable materials, helping serve our community efficiently and sustainably. We're looking for an experienced mechanic who enjoys solving complex mechanical problems, fabricating solutions, and keeping essential equipment operating safely and reliably. If you have a strong background in industrial maintenance, heavy equipment, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, aggregates, or similar industries, we encourage you to apply. Prior baler experience is helpful, but not required. We are looking for someone with exceptional mechanical aptitude, welding and fabrication skills, and a passion for troubleshooting complex systems."
That seems good.
Responsibilities: Use the "What You'll Do" list and maybe also "Incumbent is responsible for performing a variety of skilled maintenance, repair and service of baler machinery and equipment." and "Typical Class Essential Duties" list. We'll combine into a
- list. We need to avoid duplication: The "What You'll Do" list includes items: Diagnosing and repairing complex mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and gas systems. Performing preventive maintenance to maximize equipment reliability. Fabricating and repairing components using welding equipment and a plasma table. Troubleshooting mechanical failures and identifying long-term solutions. Coordinating the ordering of parts and maintaining repair records. Maintaining forklifts, loaders, and other support equipment as needed. Operating specialized tools, diagnostic equipment, welders, forklifts, skid steers, and other heavy equipment. Working safely while supporting the City's commitment to exceptional public service. The "Incumbent is responsible for performing a variety of skilled maintenance, repair and service of baler machinery and equipment." is a generic statement that could be covered by the list; we could include it as a separate bullet or incorporate. The "Typical Class Essential Duties" list includes many items: Performs highly skilled mechanical repairs, work, and preventative maintenance on the baler at the Solid Waste facility. Inspects, diagnoses, and locates mechanical difficulties on the baler and construction equipment. Fabricates and repairs metal parts using welding equipment and Plasma table. Maintains accurate records and monitors the status of work orders. Coordinates the purchasing of baler parts, purchasing, and repairs. Monitors equipment and supply inventories; schedules equipment for repairs; purchases equipment and supplies as needed; maintains equipment as necessary. Operates equipment and tools including balers,