Maintenance Mechanic III

Class Title

Maintenance Mechanic work activities are divided into three (3) classes. Maintenance Mechanic III is the third, or most senior level class, to which Maintenance Mechanic positions are allocated in the classified services.

Duties

• Maintains, repairs, and replaces machinery and equipment such as electric motors, pumps, conveyor systems, air-conditioning and heating systems, special operating equipment such as overhead cranes, streets painting, machines, etc.

• Uses Hand-tools, electrical tools, power tools, precision-measuring and testing instruments

• Works from diagrams, sketches, operating manuals, and manufacturer's specifications

• Installs, repairs, or replaces functional parts and components

• Initiates requests for materials

• Perform other duties as needed and required

Minimum Qualifications

• Hold valid driver's license at time of employment.

• Two (2) years of experience in maintenance type work

• Demonstrated ability to apply craft techniques, processes and principles; ability to use independent decision-making judgment concerning maintenance and repairs; ability to apply shop mathematics and to interpret written instructions; spatial discrimination; form perception; eye-hand coordination; and finger and manual dexterity.

• Hold or be able to qualify for, such certificates or licenses as may be required by Federal, State or City government.

ADA COMPLIANCE:

Physical Requirement:

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel of objects and materials.

• Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and climb to perform work in enclosed areas.

• Involves the ability to exert light to moderately heavy crouching and crawling; balancing, stooping, kneeling, and some lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling or objects or materials of twelve (12) to 100 pounds.

• Requires specific vision abilities (perception of color, near and far vision, depth perception ability to focus), as well as discrimination of sound, odor, depth, and texture.

• Requires good communication ability.

• Job may be performed either with or without accommodations

TRAVEL:

Travel as needed.

Normal Promotional Path From This Class:

ANY HIGHER CLASS OR LEVEL FOR WHICH ELIGBLE OR QUALIFIED.

The City of Shreveport offers many benefits including vacation and sick leave, health, dental and vision insurance, 10 paid holidays per calendar year and long term disability.

01

Do you have a valid driver's license?

• Yes

• No

02

How many years of experience do you have in maintenance type work?

• No experience

• Less than two years experience

• At least two years but less than four years experience

• At least four years but less than six years experience

• Six or more years experience

03

Please list the name of the company where you obtained this experience and the duties that you performed? (if there is more than one company, please list each separately). Company: Duties: Years:

Required Question

Agency City of Shreveport

Address 505 Travis St, Suite 530

Shreveport, Louisiana, 71101

Phone (318) 673-5151

Website http://www.shreveportla.gov