Fleet Maintenance Tech III G122 Metra Transit

This position is responsible for maintaining and repairing the city’s fleet of public transportation vehicles and equipment.

• Performs repairs to all fleet vehicles. 
• Performs preventive maintenance of vehicles and equipment; and tests the operation of the vehicles. 
• Inspects, diagnoses, and analyzes transit coaches and support vehicles. 
• Repairs or replaces brakes, air conditioning and heating systems, wheelchair lifts, fareboxes, electrical systems, and fuel systems; installs engines, generators, and transmissions; replaces engines; rebuilds transmissions. 
• Prepares coaches for quality control inspections. 
• Completes and files inspection sheets for the federal triennial inspections. 
• Writes service orders to document the completion of repairs; records labor and parts used in repairs. 
• Monitors radio and performs road calls as needed. 
• Assists with the quarterly parts room inventory.
• Downloads work orders; performs mileage and fuel calculations. 
• Maintains and calibrates shop tools, machinery, equipment, and parts. 
• Test drives buses upon completion of maintenance work to ensure that the bus is working properly. 
• Services parking garage equipment; repairs tires on street sweeper; services parking garage carts. 
• Schedules equipment for service. 
• Provides transportation to Homeland Security in the event of an emergency (Small or Large Buses).
• Must have personal tools.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of vehicle maintenance and repair. 
• Knowledge of safety precautions.  Skill in reading electrical schematics and flowcharts.  
• Skill in the repair and maintenance of brakes, air conditioning and heating systems, wheelchair lifts, fareboxes, electrical systems, fuel systems, engines, generators, transmissions. 
• Skill in the operation of computers and various software equipment. 
• Skill in the use and calibration of diagnostic tools and repair equipment. 
• Skill in oral and written communication.

High school diploma, GED, Associate degree, or technical certification. A minimum of 1 year of automotive repair experience. CDL permit or full endorsement. Basic knowledge of automotive repairs to incluse brake, electrical, suspension, and computer systems. Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people.

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching.  The employee frequently lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and distinguishes between shades of color.  Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise. 
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading. 
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision. 
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures. 
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment. 
• Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts. 
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, computer room, or outdoors where the employee may be exposed to noise, dust, dirt, grease, machinery with moving parts, contagious or infectious diseases, irritating chemicals, and cold or inclement weather.  The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, or gloves.