Entry Level Heavy Equipment Technician at Wagner equipment

Would you like to be part of a focused, dedicated team? Do you want to work and grow with other motivated, ambitious people?

Wagner Equipment Co. offers challenging career opportunities, extensive training and employee development along with an opportunity to grow your career and thrive under Wagner’s reputation for excellence. We offer excellent benefits and supply you with the tools you need to maximize your potential and grow within Wagner.

Benefits include:

• Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan - Up to 96 hours of PTO in your first year + 8 company paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance 
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Retirement Plans -  401K and Roth 401K , eligible employees can receive a company contribution up to 7%
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• CEFCU- Citizens Equity First Credit Union - Employees have access to services include payroll deductions savings, accounts, loans, VISA card, and more.
• Additional Benefits include: Unum Supplemental life Insurance, Aflac Critical Illness + Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and discounted employee phone plans.

Position: Class D- Class C Technician 
Pay: $22.00-29.44 per hour
Pay rate is dependent on education and experience

Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

• Prepares accurate and complete service reports and turns them in on time
• Correctly charges work to appropriate work order segments
• Communicates effectively with Service Writer, Shop Coordinators and Shop Managers to ensure problems, nature of repair, and status of repairs are understood and followed up on
• Works in a cooperative manner with other team members to accomplish the goals of the shop and the company
• Organize and maintain staging areas
• Prepares, inspects, and operates machines prior to delivery
• Removes, disassembles, assembles, and installs components and parts
• Steam clean incoming components and stage for technicians to tear down
• Cleans, repairs, reconditions, and maintains equipment and components
• Unload washed piece parts from large washers and delivers to technicians
• Wash, tag, and stage shipping stands for technicians and retrieve parts when needed
• Sandblasts, cleans, scrapes and prepares parts for reusability and or reconditioning
• Performs general shop clean-up duties and maintains a clean and organized work area
• Uses safe working practices and follows all company safety requirements
• Operates forklifts and cranes
• Other duties as assigned by manager

Required Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED

Competencies:

• Data Entry, Telephone Skills
• Safety Knowledge
• Reading/Writing, Reasoning, Organizational, Communication & Math Skills
• Product Knowledge
• Career-minded, reliable with a desire to learn and develop a career in the heavy equipment industry

 Work Environment:

• Noise: Loud, Environment: Indoors and Outdoors

Physical Demands:

• Standing, walking, talking, squatting/kneeling
• Use of Hands, Hearing
• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, etc.
• Heavy work that includes carrying, lifting and/or moving objects up to 100 pounds or more

Other Duties:

Job Offers are contingent upon all required pre-employment screenings which may include but are not limited to background checks, drug/alcohol testing, fit for duty testing, and any other job-related tests/screenings.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.  

Wagner Equipment Co. is an EEO/AA/Veterans/Disabled employer.