Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Tec

About the role

Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Tec are needed to perform various duties related to diagnosing, adjusting, repairing, and overhauling diesel farm machinery and gas vehicles such as tractors, trucks, farm implements, etc.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, repair, and overhaul farm machinery and vehicles, such as tractors, forklifts, trailers, any and all equipment used during the planting, production, and harvest of crops.
• Record details of repairs made and parts used.
• Reassemble machines and equipment following repair, testing operation, and adjusting, as necessary.
• Examine and listen to equipment, read inspection reports as to problems determined to be repaired.
• Maintain -repair maintenance records.
• Inspect mechanical equipment to locate damage, defects, or wear.
• Test and replace electrical wiring components for proper functioning, using test meters, soldering equipment, and hand tools.
• Test mechanical equipment to ensure proper functioning.
• Tune or overhaul engines.
• Perform routine maintenance on vehicle and farm equipment such as changing oil and filters, brakes, brake pads, and repairing tires.
• Knowledgeable and repair in hydraulic systems.
• Repair or replace defective parts, using hand tools, and grinders.
• Repair worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
• Install machine or equipment replacement parts.
• Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
• Repair defective engines or engine components.
• Adjust vehicle/equipment components to ensure optimal performance, according to specifications.
• Reassemble equipment after repair.
• Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order.
• Diagnosing, adjust, repair all small engine equipment such as mowers, trimmers, and power washers.
• Replace components, such as carburetors, fuel pumps, generators, ignition points, and spark plugs.
• reassemble, adjust, and equipment to ensure efficient operation.
• May install and repair wiring and motors to maintain farm electrical system.
• May assist other workers in more complex maintenance tasks, such as overhaul of machinery and equipment.

Requirements

• Must have at least 6 months experience operating as an agricultural equipment mechanic.
• Must lifting 75 lbs.
• Driving Requirement
• Exposure to extreme temps, repetitive movements, extensive push/pulling, and extensive walking.
• Frequent stooping.
• Pre-hire drug screening at employer expense.

General Conditions

• Field work begins at assigned time usually shortly after daylight.
• Work environment will be dirty, dusty, and damp, with temperature fluctuations according to the season.
• Work is performed during light rain and in high humidity and in temperatures ranging from 100+ degrees to below 35 degrees F.
• Workers must have multi-limb coordination ability while standing, walking, and climbing for long periods while pruning and harvesting.
• Workers will supply their own work clothes.
• Workers will make repetitive movements, extensive pushing, pulling, and walking.
• Workers may be required to perform work, on the farm, that is incidental to farming the crops listed in the application, such as performing hand cultivation tasks, weeding or hoeing, cleaning and repairing farm buildings, grounds, setting up and moving aluminum irrigation pipes and equipment, cleaning and maintaining drip irrigation systems, using backpack sprayers, gardening, weeding, shrubbing, etc.

Qualifications

• Must have at least 6 months experience operating as an agricultural equipment mechanic.
• Must lifting 75 lbs.
• Driving Requirement
• Exposure to extreme temps, repetitive movements, extensive push/pulling, and extensive walking.
• Frequent stooping.
• Pre-hire drug screening at employer expense.

Skills

• Knowledgeable and repair in hydraulic systems.
• Repair or replace defective parts, using hand tools, and grinders.
• Repair worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
• Install machine or equipment replacement parts.
• Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
• Repair defective engines or engine components.
• Adjust vehicle/equipment components to ensure optimal performance, according to specifications.
• Reassemble equipment after repair.
• Clean equipment, parts, or tools to repair or maintain them in good working order.
• Diagnosing, adjust, repair all small engine equipment such as mowers, trimmers, and power washers.
• Replace components, such as carburetors, fuel pumps, generators, ignition points, and spark plugs.
• reassemble, adjust, and equipment to ensure efficient operation.
• May install and repair wiring and motors to maintain farm electrical system.
• May assist other workers in more complex maintenance tasks, such as overhaul of machinery and equipment.

Benefits

• Not specified

Pay

• Up to $19.98

Schedule

• First Shift (Day)
• Hours per week: 40

Benefits

• Not specified