Location: Picatinny Arsenal,NJ, USA
**Summary**
**CHENEGA HEALTHCARE SERVICES, LLC**
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The **Motor Vehicle Mechanic** is responsible for testing, inspecting, repairing, servicing, maintaining, transporting, and processing / de-processing commercial and/or tactical equipment. This includes associated mechanical, electrical, and electronic assemblies and sub-assemblies to component level.
**Responsibilities**
+ Perform sustainment maintenance for all heavy mobile equipment, including automotive, tactical vehicles (wheels and tracked), construction equipment, and special/general equipment.
+ Repair, build, or overhaul major assemblies of internal combustion automobiles, buses, trucks, tractors, etc.
+ Work involves most of the following: Diagnosing the source of trouble and determining the extent of repairs required; replacing worn or broken parts such as piston rings, bearings, or other engine parts; grinding and adjusting valves; rebuilding carburetors; overhauling transmissions; and repairing fuel injection, lighting, and ignition system.
+ Perform initial, random, and final inspections on equipment submitted for repair or services.
+ Test drive vehicles, and test components and systems, using equipment such as infrared engine analyzers, compression gauges, and computerized diagnostic devices.
+ Perform the full range of repair and modification work on heavy equipment and military vehicles to include but not limited to commercial, non-tactical, tactical, and tracked vehicles. A few examples of the various types of vehicles repaired are passenger cars, trucks, forklift trucks, warehouse tractors, large missile-carrying tanks, tank retrievers, tanks, and multi-wheel drive vehicles with standard or automatic transmissions.
+ Have a full understanding of two and four-cycle engine operation.
+ Be able to perform a complete engine diagnosis on all engine systems and components.
+ Replace and adjust tracks, road wheels, road wheel bearings, idler wheels, idler bearings, and oil seals; replace suspension arms, torsion bars, stabilizer bars, etc.
+ Repair braking systems by repairing hydraulic systems, including master cylinders.
+ Repair and adjust power and mechanical steering systems as required.
+ Determine nature and extent of repairs required and perform major and minor repairs on engines, power transmissions, transfers, and related electrical, fuel, hydraulic, wheel, and engine assemblies.
+ Demonstrate a working knowledge of all engine systems.
+ Use technical manuals and other publications to identify and order repair parts.
+ Operate and inspect machines or equipment to diagnose defects.
+ Dismantle and reassemble equipment using hoists and hand tools.
+ Examine parts for damage or excessive wear, using testing equipment such as compression testers, motor analyzers, test meters, micrometers, and gauges.
+ Test overhauled equipment to ensure operating efficiency.
+ Set up and operate various types of manual and automatic metal forming machines.
+ Repair damaged bodies and body parts using hand tools, power tools, cutting torch, and welding equipment.
+ Removes upholstery, accessories, and trim to gain access to vehicle body and fenders.
+ Bend, shape, and form dented areas to return vehicle to original form.
+ Fill depressions with solder and other plastic material.
+ Remove damaged fenders, panels, and grills, using wrenches and cutting torch, and bolts or welds replacement parts in position, using wrenches or welding equipment.
+ Perform minor acetylene and electric arc welding.
+ Straighten bent frames, bumpers, and panels using hydraulic pulling post jack or power press.
+ File, grind, and sand surfaces, using power and hand tools.
+ Refinishes repaired surface, using paint spray gun and sander.
+ May be required to work an uncommon tour of duty including nights, weekends, and holidays.
+ Other duties as assigned.
**Qualifications**
+ High school diploma or equivalent required; or completion of technical courses in service, trade, or craft
+ Minimum three (3) years of experience
+ Possess and maintain a valid state drivers license in order to drive any customer or company vehicles
+ Possess a CDL Class B Preferred
**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
+ Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
+ Skilled in minor acetylene and electric arc welding
+ Ability to follow oral and written directions
+ Ability to work independently using sound judgment, perform tasks normally associated with vehicle operations, and operate heavy trucks in a reliable manner with public safety in mind
+ Experience working on a government services contract Preferred
**Physical Demands** (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
+ While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
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