Diesel Mechanic- Ag Equipment

Bane-Welker Equipment; Pendleton (IN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health Savings Account

401K with 10% matching

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Term life insurance

Job summary

Bane-Welker Equipment is seeking an experienced AG Service Technician in Pendleton, IN to independently diagnose, service, repair, and maintain customer and dealer equipment. The role reports to the Service Manager and emphasizes safety, accuracy, and customer satisfaction in the service process.

Ideal candidates will have strong mechanical aptitude, the ability to diagnose advanced systems (Monitors, Nav, autosteer), and a commitment to ongoing skill development.

Qualifications

• The service technician must be thoroughly familiar with the dealer’s line of equipment.
• Natural mechanical ability and familiarity with testing equipment and diagnostic procedures.
• Ability to diagnose and repair all AFS equipment (Monitors, Nav, autosteer, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Performs repair and maintenance work on equipment on time schedules.Makes recommendations for additional work and informs the customer via the service manager.
• Ensures correct work assignment and seeks clarification when needed.
• Maintains tools and company equipment; notifies when replacements are needed.
• Adheres to safety rules and reports injuries immediately.
• Keeps work area clean and presents professionally; maintains customer equipment cleanliness.
• Collaborates with parts department; communicates needed parts.
• Reports delays or parts orders to the service manager.
• Seeks additional opportunities to complete jobs; completes and submits daily documentation.
• Maintains attendance with time tracking and job tickets; aims to improve billable hours.

Job description

AG Service Technician

Bane-Welker is currently seeking an experienced Service Technician to join our Pendleton, IN Service Department. In this role the candidate's primary responsibilities will be to independently perform basic and complex diagnostic, service repair and maintenance work on customer and/or dealer owned agricultural equipment. This position will report to the Service Manager.

Technicians need mechanical skills and should have an aptitude for increasing these skills to expand the kinds of jobs they can perform. A “be-of-service” attitude is also important when dealing with customers since your customer satisfaction is so vital to the growth of the service department.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Performs repair and maintenance work on equipment, in accordance with time schedules as assigned by service manager.
• Make recommendations of additional needed work to the service manager and ensure the customer is notified.
• Ensure that work assignment is correct, ask the service manager for clarification if there are questions.
• Maintain tools and company equipment, notify service managers if tools need to be replaced
• Observes all safety rules and consistently works in a safe manner – reports any injuries “immediately” to the service manager.
• Ensure that your work area is clean, and you present yourself in a professional manner
• Maintains and respects cleanliness of the customer’s equipment.
• Work as a team with the parts department and communicate the parts needed
• Notifies the service manager if delays are expected, or if a part needs to be ordered.
• Seek other opportunities when temporarily unable to finish the job
• Demonstrate teamwork to co-workers and fellow employees as needed.
• Accounts for all time and material used.
• Maintains a consistent attendance record by clocking in and out daily showing job tickets, personal/vacation/sick time, etc.
• Completes and submits all daily documentation to the service manager in a timely manner.
• Consistently strive to improve percentage of billable hours to meet or exceed quota.
• Bring value to the company by seeking areas of cost reductions or revenue increases and reports observations to the service manager.
• Immediately reports any malfunction or defects to service manager.
• Pay attention to repeat repairs, so the problem is corrected, and future re-dos are avoided.
• Maintain education on the product lines and abreast of any changes.
• Maintains appropriate licenses and certifications.
• Ability to diagnose and repair all AFS equipment (Monitors, Nav, autosteer,etc…)
• Other duties as may be assigned by the service manager.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Transports equipment, or parts as needed. Always loading and securing carefully to ensure no damage by transport. Performs equipment checks both before and after transport to avoid transport damage claims and gives customer instructions for basic operation.
• Performs set up or pre-delivery inspections on new or used equipment as prescribed by manufacturer’s manual.
• Performs all field service assignments promptly and efficiently with a minimum of non-billable comebacks.

Reports to: the Service Manager

Environmental Factors/Physical Demands:

• Work is performed in an office, maintenance shop and outdoor environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have the ability to maintain active customer and employee communication; access, input and retrieve information from the computer system. May be subject to sitting, standing, climbing, lifting, grasping, reaching, stooping, crouching, speaking, listening and motor coordination.
• Bane-Welker is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to our full-time employees; overtime pay for hourly employees, competitive salary, company-paid term life insurance (option to purchase more), paid vacation, and holidays. Health, Dental, Vision, Short Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance are all available. Bane Welker also offers a Health Savings Account and 401K with a 10% matching contribution. As well as our Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

General:

• The service technician must be thoroughly familiar with the dealer’s line of equipment. They must know the detailed construction of many machines and have the knowledge and skill to make repairs properly. A natural mechanical ability and familiarization with testing equipment and diagnostic procedures, as well as maintaining proficiency, as required. Listed are just some of the additional requirements: sitting, standing, climbing, lifting, grasping, reaching, stooping, and crouching, speaking, listening and motor coordination skills.

Bane-Welker Equipment reserves the right to modify, interpret or apply this job description in any way the company desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties, to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees are required to perform any other functions or duties assigned to them by management. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “at-will.

BANE-WELKER EQUIPMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER