Mechanic-EVT

General Description

To provide and coordinate preventative maintenance and repair for the vehicles owned and in use by the Washington County Regional Ambulance Authority-Central EMS to ensure safe, reliable transportation for response to emergency and non-emergency calls by the EMTs and Paramedics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Order parts for the maintenance of the vehicles. (daily, about 10% of the time)
• Repair medical equipment and stretchers. (monthly, about 5% of the time)
• Fabricate and install components. (irregularly, about 5% of the time)
• Diagnose and repair the ambulance module. (daily, about 20% of the time)
• Cosmetic and body repair. (irregularly, about 10% of the time)
• Mechanical diagnosis and repair. (daily, about 20% of the time)
• Preventative maintenance. (daily, about 50% of the time)
• Aid with vehicle specifications. (irregularly, about 5% of the time)
• Maintain the generator. (monthly, about 10% of the time)
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

• High school, plus specialized schooling and/or on the job education in a specific skill area; e.g. data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc, plus 4 years related experience and/or training. Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibility for Funds, Property and Equipment

Funds, Property & Equipment Responsibility: $ 100,000

Supervisory Responsibility

None.

Communication Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and understand general business/company-related articles and professional journals;
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.

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 define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form, and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Decision Making

• Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance, either of which would affect the work operations of small organizational component and the organization's clientele.
• Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance, either of which would affect the work operations of small organizational component and the organization's clientele.

Planning

• Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work, in addition, the work operations of a group of employees, all performing basically the same type of work.

Public Contact

• Occasional contacts with patrons on routine matters.

Employee Contact

• Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal course of performing duties.
• Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.

Physical Activities

• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; frequently required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally required to sit, taste or smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Environmental Conditions

• While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, outdoor weather conditions; frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles; and occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.