Maintenance Mechanic

Brief Summary:

A Maintenance Mechanic will perform a variety of activities designed to service, repair and maintain pieces of heavy equipment and all of the Shipyard facilities including offices, bathrooms, and specific items on vessels.

Essential job duties include:

• As a Mechanic, you will perform maintenance and repair activities on various pieces of heavy equipment and general facilities maintenance including but not limited to heavy-duty truck and semi-tractors, excavators, skidders, high pressure pumps, 25 ton and smaller bulldozers, cranes, crawler tractors and trailers, backhoes, trailer, man lifts, HVAC, toilets, light fixtures.
• Diagnoses, services and repairs of various systems that are found on pieces of heavy equipment such as mechanical air brake systems, transmissions, propane powered equipment, and pneumatic systems.
• Diagnoses, services and repairs of various systems located throughout Alabama Shipyard.
• Troubleshooting malfunctions in the equipment, repair and service.
• Repairs and services will also be required on track drive sprockets, rails, idler wheels, hard bars, track adjusters, hydraulic reversers, final drivers, brake bands, steering clutches and hydrostatic transmissions.
• Routine maintenance checks and adjustments on heavy equipment and all Alabama Shipyard facilites.
• Routine changing of filters, oil and lubricates.
• Must be able to diagnoses problems, disassemble units, repairs or replace parts and reassemble units’ systems such as: brakes, cooling, drive, electrical, exhaust and emissions control, heating and air conditioning, hydraulic, air, steering and suspension system and coupling devices.
• Overhauls of engines replace engines and rebuild components.
• Required services logs and records of maintenance to be logged.

The above description is general in nature. A Maintenance Mechanic may be required to perform other related duties not specifically described herein.

Work Hours:
Monday through Friday, 6:30 AM to 5:00 PM, with overtime and weekend work as needed.

Pay Rate:
DOE and interview. The pay for 1^st Class Maintenance Mechanics will fall within the range of $23.25 - $ 29.00, which will be determined at the time of the interview.