Experienced Heavy Equipment Diesel Technician - 2nd Shift

About the role

The Class A Technician at Wagner Equipment Co. is responsible for diagnosing, repairing, reconditioning, and maintaining heavy equipment and components. This position requires a combination of technical skills and customer service experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepares accurate and complete service reports and turns them in on time
• Communicates effectively with Service Writers, Shop Coordinators, and Shop Managers to ensure problems, nature of repair, and status of repairs are understood and followed up on
• Cleans, repairs, reconditions, and maintains equipment and components
• Prepares, inspects, and operates machines prior to delivery
• Removes, disassembles, assembles, and installs components and parts
• Determines reusability of parts in accordance with published Caterpillar reusability guidelines
• Orders replacement parts ensuring that parts orders are correct and complete at the time of order
• Serves 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
• Performs maintenance activities on new and rebuilt/repaired equipment
• Makes recommendations as to repairs meeting warranty criteria
• Makes parts replacement decisions assuring optimum economic reusability

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent
• At least 3 years of experience in heavy equipment, engine, or electric power generation system repair
• At least 1 year of administrative or clerical experience
• At least 3 years of customer service experience

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited technical school in diesel engine or earthmoving repair preferred

Skills

• Basic ability to search for and enter data into a computer
• Ability to type service reports
• Data entry
• Telephone
• Reading/writing
• Reasoning
• Organizational
• Communication
• Math skills

Benefits

• 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 - Employees have access to services including payroll deductions savings, accounts, loans, VISA card, and more
• Additional Benefits include: Supplemental life Insurance, Critical Illness + Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and discounted employee phone plans

Pay

$30.00 - $50.60 per hour + Shift Differential

Schedule

Monday - Friday 2pm - Midnight