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Job title : Truck Mechanic
Job Location : Oyo
Deadline : June 30, 2024
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Responsibilities
- Maintaining trucks and other vehicles by checking things such as batteries, oil, lubrication, nuts and bolts, and other items.
- Inspecting trucks on a routine or on-demand basis to address concerns of the owner. This can mean looking at one or multiple areas of the vehicle, such as the braking system, steering mechanism, engine, etc.
- Understanding the purposes of different tools and how to effectively use them. These include welding equipment, pneumatic wrenches, and jacks.
- Ability to diagnose defective equipment through visual and auditory inspections and confirm this with devices such as motor analyzers.
- Replacing any parts on a vehicle that have become defective.
- Measuring vehicle emissions and making corrections to get them within legal limits.
- Perform routine maintenance on trucks, such as checking batteries and changing oil to ensure proper vehicle running.
- Inspect various parts of trucks, including brake systems, wheel bearings and steering mechanisms to ensure they are in the proper condition to operate effectively.
- Use different tools and equipment, such as pressure gauges, pneumatic wrenches, welding equipment, screwdrivers, hoists and jacks, to repair trucks while constantly utilizing safety precautions.
- Diagnose malfunctions in defective equipment by inspecting and testing using devices such as motor analyzers, handheld computers and chassis charts to determine how to address problems.
- Test drive vehicles to ensure they are running properly and to find issues to determine what the solution will be.
- Replace parts, valves, bearings and gears as needed and repair vehicle cooling and heating systems.
- Measure vehicle emissions to ensure they are within the proper limits.
- Ensure parts conform to factory specifications by inspecting and verifying clearances and dimensions.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Must be able to lift heavy equipment and parts regularly.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Must have completed standard mechanic certification program.
- 6-10 years of experience working as a mechanic is required.
- Good physical strength, grip strength, dexterity, flexibility and endurance.
- Critical thinking, analysis and evaluation abilities.
- Technical certification or degree.
- Experience working with diagnostic computers.
- Previous experience as a diesel mechanic.
How to Apply for this Offer
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.
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