MECHANIC FOREMAN - 07072026-79000

About the role

The Mechanic Foreman serves as a frontline supervisor within TDOT's Garage Team, providing technical oversight and team leadership to ensure the efficient, safe, and compliant maintenance of State's fleet.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a frontline supervisor within TDOT's Garage Team, providing technical oversight and team leadership to ensure the efficient, safe, and compliant maintenance of State's fleet.
• Develop, lead, mentor, and train each team member through empowerment, communication, and delegated authority.
• Plan, assign, and monitor the work of garage personnel performing diagnostics, maintenance, and repairs on a variety of light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles and equipment.
• Ensure operational readiness, enforce safety and environmental regulations, and support the implementation of maintenance procedures that extend equipment life and reduce downtime.
• Use department policies, standard operating guidelines, procedures, and manuals to deliver the expected outcomes.
• Implement performance plans, ensuring expected outcomes, performance, and accountability of each crew member.
• Identify efficiencies within the operations and assist with the development and implementation of innovative best practices as appropriate.
• Serve as a frontline supervisor within TDOT's Garage Team, providing technical oversight and team leadership to ensure the efficient, safe, and compliant maintenance of State's fleet.
• Supervise garage personnel in the maintenance, repair, and inspection of State fleet vehicles and equipment, including dump trucks, trailers, pickups, pavers, milling machines, sweepers, stripers, loaders, excavators, rollers, forklifts, skid steers, tractors with mowers, and other machinery.
• Absorb and track vehicle and ancillary purchases and disposals, including completing and maintaining General Services Property Disposition (GSPD) forms, to ensure alignment with agency guidelines and support fleet inventory management activities.
• Coordinate winter weather readiness by overseeing pre-storm inspections and preparation of fleet equipment, performing calibration of salt spreaders and other winter maintenance attachments before and after storm events, and managing post-storm cleanup, damage assessment, and equipment repairs to ensure continued operational readiness.
• Plan and assign daily work based on garage priorities, personnel availability, and emergency response needs.
• Maintain progress and adjust workloads as necessary to meet defined schedules and service targets.
• Oversee diagnostics and troubleshooting for complex mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical issues.
• Provide technical guidance and hands-on support for high-complexity repairs and major component replacements.
• Respond promptly to service requests, set clear expectations, and ensure timely, high-quality service.
• Mentor and train garage personnel, promoting skill development, and certification compliance.
• Support the Garage Team in implementing process improvements, integrating diagnostic technologies, and aligning local practices with statewide fleet maintenance strategies.
• Stay current on industry best practices and national trends to identify opportunities that improve operational efficiency, safety, and service quality.
• Develop performance factors that ensure garage staff provide deliverables that are consistent, predictable, and repeatable, providing uniformly high levels of achievement, mitigation of risk, and an established track record of success.

Qualifications

• High school diploma and 5 years of demonstrated competency in related field.
• Necessary special qualifications: Some positions within this classification may require candidates to possess and maintain a Class D driver's license valid to operate vehicles in the State of Tennessee. Some positions within this classification may require candidates possess and maintain, or obtain at their own expense and within 11 months of hire or promotion to this classification, a Class A Commercial Driver's License with an N endorsement without a Code O restriction (Code 52 restriction is allowable) that is valid in the State of Tennessee.