Requirements and Responsibilities for Diesel Mechanic:

• Performs inspection, maintenance and repairs on heavy duty vehicles, such as trucks, trailers, forklifts, pickups, etc.
• Responsible for diesel engines, transmissions, brake systems, electrical trouble shooting, steering and cooling systems.
• Keeps track of the maintenance work on the vehicles.
• Ensures services provided are following safety procedures.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
• Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Performs a variety of tasks.
• Works under general supervision.
• A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.
• Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.

Key Performance Areas:

• Maintain and repair all mechanical defaults to specification.
• Communicate and report mechanical analysis to relevant stakeholders.
• Identify mechanical risk and exercise preventative measures.
• Ensure that all work is performed under the strictest safety conditions.
• Delegate and mentor direct assistants.
• Perform duties within the required performance standards of the team.
• Verifies vehicle performance by conducting test drives, adjusting controls and systems.

Qualifications:

• Minimum grade 10 high school certificate with artisan trade tested qualification in diesel mechanics.
• Proven experience (3 to 5 years) in the maintenance and repairs of heavy-duty trucks and trailers.
• Other experience such as transmissions, hydraulics, brake systems, steering, cooling systems, gearbox and electrical troubleshooting.
• Intermediate or advance knowledge of all makes and brands of trucks.eg Mercedes, Volvo, Scania, MAN, Freightliner etc.
• General Health and Safety knowledge pertaining to use of workshop equipment, tools and practices

Other requirements:

• Must be able to effectively work within a team
• Ability to relate to people at all levels in an organization
• Proven ability to quickly get things done in a diverse and pressurised environment
• Must be available to work extra hours to get the job done during key periods and breakdowns
• Basic command in English and Afrikaans
• Ability to work independently and without supervision on a regular basis.
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Strong attention to detail with good problem-solving abilities.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading technical and regulation publications.

Competencies

• Dependability – Job requires being reliable, responsible, dependable and fulfilling obligations.
• Attention to detail – Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in work tasks.
• Leadership – Job requires delegation of tasks and instructions.
• Stress Tolerance – Job requires accepting criticism and deal calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
• Decision Making – Job requires effective and constructive decisions to resolve mechanical deficiencies. Must be able to apply good judgement.
• Observation – Job requires strong awareness and observation of mechanical and technical compliance.
• Communication – Job requires effective communication between staff, management and external stakeholders. To be customer focus.

Please email all CVs to shameema@wastemart.co.za

No Chancers

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Waste-Mart seeks to employ a welder with at least 3 – 5 experience to do maintenance and repairs on waste equipment and vehicles.

Age 25-40

Job Criteria
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to effectively communicate with co-workers and supervisor. Must be able to communicate with all other employees in a socially acceptable manner.}

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Basic math, tape measure reading, Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY
Ability to apply experience and training to similar assignments with limited supervision.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Welding certificate plus 3 to 5 years proven experience with contactable references.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach outward & above shoulder, twist / turn, push / pull, climb, crouch, stoop, and crawl. The frequency of these activities is mixed and varied dependent on the stage of construction. The employee is required to utilize their fingers to handle and feel throughout the entire process.

Please email your cv to:shameema@wastemart.co.za or drop off at HR office

No chancers

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