Senior Automotive Body Worker

Duties

• Receives and reviews daily work orders.
• Analyzes order and delegates work to appropriate personnel.
• Provides guidance and assistance to body shop personnel especially regarding collision repairs and refinishing procedures.
• Orders parts and materials needed to complete work ensuring that quality parts are obtained at competitive prices.
• Supervises and performs major and minor repairs to bodies and fenders of wrecked vehicles, rounds out dents and fills damaged areas with fiber glass compound.
• Prepares written estimates and inspects work performed by outside vendors.
• Supervises and performs the welding of breaks and fractures in sheet metal and frames, the straightening of frames with pressure equipment, and the repairing and soldering of radiator leaks.
• Ensures that letters and stripes are properly placed on trucks, cars and other automotive and construction equipment.
• Supervises and participates in the brush or spray painting of a wide variety of municipal automotive rolling stock, such as trucks, road rollers, compressors, and other construction and maintenance equipment, as well as fire and police apparatus.
• Instructs, supervises and participates in the sanding, or rough or rusted spots.
• Diagnose and repair of Safety Restraint Systems (Air Bags) both related and unrelated to vehicle accidents.
• Participates in the wide variety of automotive vehicle maintenance and repairs from minor work to major repairs.
• Performs Other Related Tasks As Required.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum six (6) years' experience in a variety of automotive bodywork and painting at the journeyman level is required.
• The incumbent must have a valid Florida Commercial Driver's License Class B.
• CDL requirement may be waived for up to 120 days but must be obtained by the end of the 120 days for continued employment; as long as employee has a valid Florida Driver's License.
• ASE certification preferred.
• Must furnish own tools and repair equipment.
• A comparable amount of training or experience may be substituted for minimum education requirement.