Equipment Mechanic
Job Title: Equipment Mechanic
Salary range: $24.00-$26.00 DOQE
Location: PWD Campus, 1057 Dudley Street
Department: Public Works
Hours: Full-time (40 hours a week), non-exempt with limited overtime opportunities. Eligible for benefits.
Job Description:
The Equipment Mechanic is responsible for a full range of servicing, repairing and maintaining both heavy equipment and light duty equipment (heavy duty trucks, material spreaders, excavators, skidders, backhoes, high pressure pumps, bulldozers, graders, blades, dump bodies, snow plows, trailers, street sweepers, and other city equipment and vehicles) as directed by the Fleet Maintenance Superintendent.
- Amazing opportunity to work with a varied and diverse municipal equipment fleet – both diesel and gasoline engines
- $24.00-$26.00 starting wage DOQE
- Work experience with engines and heavy equipment repair and maintenance required
- Preventive maintenance work only (e.g., changing oil, lubing, or removing and replacing parts) may not be considered qualifying experience.
- Experience in welding and fabrication, preferred
- Great benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance benefits
- Participate in the South Dakota Retirement System, receive a pension when retire
- No residency requirement – Must be able to respond within 45 minutes if on call.
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