Heavy Equipment Mechanic (Yermo, CA)

Location: Yermo, CA

Hourly Rate: $36.15 (contingent upon contract award)

About the Role

This position requires a Commercial Driver's License (CDL). The Heavy Equipment Mechanic analyzes malfunctions and repairs, rebuilds, and maintains power equipment such as cranes, power shovels, scrapers, paving machines, motor graders, trench-digging machines, conveyors, bulldozers, dredges, pumps, compressors, and pneumatic tools.

Responsibilities

• Operate and inspect machines or equipment to diagnose defects.
• Dismantle and reassemble equipment using hoists and hand tools.
• Examine parts for damage or excessive wear using micrometers and gauges.
• Replace defective engines and subassemblies, such as transmissions.
• Test overhauled equipment to ensure operating efficiency.
• Weld broken parts and structural members.
• Direct workers engaged in cleaning parts and assisting with assembly and disassembly of equipment.
• Repair, adjust, and maintain mining machinery such as stripping and loading shovels, drilling and cutting machines, and continuous mining machines.