journeyman/woman heavy-duty equipment mechanic

Additional Skills

• Keep maintenance reports and documentation
• Instruct apprentices
• Perform repair work on heavy trucks

Weight Handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Specific Skills

• Adjust equipment and repair or replace defective parts
• Clean, lubricate and perform other maintenance work
• Service attachments and working tools
• Verify and repair emission control systems
• Troubleshoot and inspect equipment to detect faults and malfunctions
• Diagnose faults or malfunctions using computerized and other testing equipment to determine extent of repair required
• Test repaired equipment for proper performance and to ensure that work meets manufacturers’ specifications

Transportation/Travel Information

• Valid driver’s licence
• Transportation supplied to and from work

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Overtime required

Work Location Information

• Staff accommodation available
• Staff accommodation provided
• Various locations

Personal Suitability

• Flexibility
• Accurate
• Team player
• Dependability
• Judgement
• Reliability

Health benefits

• Health care plan
• Disability benefits
• Dental plan

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement

Long term benefits

• Pension plan
• Other benefits