Normal communication skills are required. The work requires moderate physical exertion. The work environment involves hazards, risks or discomforts typical of working with or around machinery with exposed moving parts, irritant chemicals, heavy equipment or abusive or hostile clientele and patients. Exposure to disagreeable weather conditions and extreme levels of temperature, ventilation, lighting and sound are normal. Protective clothing or gear and specific safety standards or procedures may be required.
Serious injury is possible.
Distinguishing Features Differs from the Mechanic II class in which most work is performed on light automotive equipment. Differs from Equipment Mechanic II class in which the work is highly skilled mechanical work. Makes working diagnoses of mechanical failure by means of visual and auditory checks and test equipment, such as voltmeters, armature growlers, brake testers, test stands, compression gauge testers, ohmmeters, and engine analyzers to determine the exact nature or extent of repair or adjustment necessary to complete work orders, and whether any additional repairs other than those stated in the work order are necessary. Removes, disassembles, repairs, adjusts, overhauls, modifies, reassembles, and installs or replaces engine and major assemblies, sub-assemblies, components, and systems such as fuel injection, hydraulic, and oil pressure systems. May occasionally perform oxyacetylene and electric welding or blacksmithing, as in forming, bonding and tempering iron and steel.