What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automotive Technician position at Blake's Automotive?
Job Title: Automotive Technician – Steering, Suspension, Alignment & Brake Specialist
Location: Coffeyville, KS
Job Type: Full-Time, Monday – Friday, No Weekends
Salary/Pay Rate: $18.00 - $25.00 / hour base pay performance-driven production bonuses.
About Our Shop
At Our Shop Name, we pride ourselves on delivering honest, high-quality automotive care to our community. We run a clean, modern, and fast-paced facility equipped with the latest diagnostic tools. We value our team's hard work, which is why we offer a steady hourly base coupled with a bonus structure that rewards your efficiency and productivity.
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled and dependable Automotive Specialist to join our service team, focusing on steering, suspension, alignments, and brake systems. In this role, you will be diagnosing, repairing, and optimizing vehicle chassis setups, front-end steering linkages, wheel alignments, and complete braking systems across various foreign and domestic vehicles.
Core Responsibilities
- Chassis & Brake Diagnostics: Perform visual, hands-on, and computer-aided diagnostics to isolate issues like uneven tire wear, vehicle pulling, clunking noises, brake squealing, or soft brake pedals.
- Brake System Service: Diagnose and repair complete hydraulic and mechanical braking systems, including replacing pads, rotors, calipers, wheel cylinders, master cylinders, brake lines, and performing system flushes/bleeds.
- Component Replacement: Correctly and safely replace worn struts, shocks, control arms, ball joints, tie rod ends, sway bar links, and wheel bearings.
- Precision Wheel Alignments: Operate state-of-the-art alignment machinery to adjust caster, camber, and toe geometries back to OEM or performance specifications.
- Safety Inspections: Conduct thorough multi-point courtesy inspections on under-car steering, brake, and suspension components to recommend vital safety adjustments.
- Documentation: Maintain clean, detailed service records outlining vehicle diagnostics, parts used, and labor performed.
What You Need to Bring (Qualifications)
- Experience: Minimum of 6 months of dedicated automotive repair experience with a proven track record in wheel alignments, brake jobs, and light front-end repairs.
- Equipment Mastery: High proficiency using shop lifts, pneumatic tools, scan tools, brake lathes, and modern wheel alignment systems.
- Certifications: Active ASE A4 (Suspension & Steering) and/or ASE A5 (Brakes) certifications are highly preferred: required within 6 months of hire or willing to certify after hire.
- Tools: Must possess your own set of basic hand tools and diagnostic equipment appropriate for chassis and brake work.
- Logistics: A valid driver's license and a relatively clean driving record are required for vehicle test drives.
- Must pass background check.
What We Offer (Benefits & Perks)
- Competitive Pay Structure: Financial stability with a guaranteed hourly base rate plus lucrative production bonuses that reward your speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Work-Life Balance: Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid major holidays.
- Professional Growth: Paid ASE certification assistance .
- Environment: A supportive team culture with a steady, year-round workflow in a well-equipped, safe shop.
Pay: From $18.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: In person
Salary : $18 - $25