Automotive Mechanic

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Castaway Construction & Restoration LLC

Job Title: Automotive Mechanics

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Department: Castaway Construction & Restoration, LLC - Field

Reports To: Executive Management

Job Summary

Repair automobiles, trucks, vans, and other vehicles.

Essential Duties

• Examine vehicles and equipment to determine extent of damage or malfunctions.
• Test drive vehicles and equipment, and test components and systems, using equipment such as infrared engine analyzers, compression gauges, and computerized diagnostic devices.
• Perform routine maintenance service, including oil changes, battery replacements, tire rotations, alignments, filter changes, fluid top-offs or replacements, etc.
• Repair, reline, replace, and adjust brakes.
• Review work orders and discuss work with supervisors.
• Follow checklists to ensure all important parts are examined, including belts, hoses, steering systems, spark plugs, brake and fuel systems, wheel bearings, and other potentially troublesome areas.
• Plan work procedures, using charts, technical manuals, and experience.
• Test and adjust repaired systems to meet manufacturers' performance specifications.
• Source parts and materials needed to service or repair vehicles and equipment.
• Service and repair equipment or work with Executive Administrator to schedule appointments.
• Confer with Castaway Group Management and employees to obtain descriptions of vehicle and equpment problems, and to discuss work to be performed and future repair requirements.
• Pick up and deliver parts and materials from supply shops.
• Transport vehicles and equipment when needed.
• Clean vehicles and equipment by washing, vacuuming, polishing, etc.

Secondary Duties

• Align vehicles' front ends.
• Repair damaged automobile bodies.
• Cleaning and preparing work sites.
• Loading and unloading materials and equipment.
• Perform additional assignments per supervisor's direction.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education

This position requires a post-secondary certificate (awarded for training completed after high school).

Behavioral Characteristics

• Attention to Detail -- Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Integrity -- Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Dependability -- Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Independence -- Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
• Initiative -- Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Cooperation -- Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
• Achievement/Effort -- Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
• Persistence -- Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
• Must exemplify company core values: ‘OHANA – ‘Ohana (Family), Ho’ihi (Respect), Alaka’i (Leadership), No’eau (Craftsmanship), Aloha (Compassion)

Language Skills

• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates -- Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Oral Comprehension -- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Written Comprehension -- The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Reasoning Ability

• Problem Sensitivity -- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning -- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Flexibility of Closure -- The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material