Experienced Lift Truck Technician (Shop & Field)

Ring Power Corporation; Saint Augustine (FL); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Ring Power Corporation in Saint Augustine, Florida, seeks a Technician to repair and maintain machinery, ensuring safety and efficiency. Candidates must possess a high school diploma or GED, with 1+ years of relevant experience and a valid Class D driver's license. The role involves creating repair estimates, monitoring expenses, and adhering to safety protocols. Working hours typically include business hours with potential nights and weekends. This position supports career development and offers a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of experience working with machinery.
• Valid Class D Driver’s License is required.
• Ability to comprehend written material and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Repair or replace defective parts on machinery.
• Create repair estimates and submit documentation.
• Monitor job expenses and report inaccuracies.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Planning and Organizing

Customer Oriented

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Repairs or replaces defective parts on machinery/equipment. Disassembles components and properly clean parts. Inspects components to ensure maximum parts are being reused to control repair costs. Tests, diagnoses and adjusts failures of equipment.

Creates repair estimates and submits information to substantiate quotes and estimates. Prepares all parts requisitions, time cards, or service reports, as requested by the supervisor. Ensures they are legible and accurate with sufficient detail for service accounting needs.

Monitors job expenses versus repair estimates and ensures that the lead person is aware of any cost over run, prior to the job being completed. Assumes the lead person position temporarily, as necessary.

Demonstrates utilization of dealer computer systems for work orders and other documentation.

Maintains a minimum set of tools required for job performance

Works in a neat, orderly, and safe manner while caring for and maintaining company machines/equipment.

Maintains personal company service literature, and maintains a high awareness of technical changes in the industry.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Essential Job Competencies

Safety: fully supports, encourages and follows safe work behavior, and considers safety of paramount importance in the workplace.

Job Specific Skills: Demonstrates the required depth and mastery of knowledge and skill associated with the job as identified in the Learning Management System (LMS) and other applicable sources. Demonstrates the effective application of the job specific knowledge, skills and ability required to resolve job related challenges in the workplace. Refer to job specific training requirements for the job identified in the LMS.

Communication: Uses active listening skills, conveying information with the appropriate medium that is clear and easily understood. Uses feedback to verify effective and accurate communication has occurred. Ensures that others having a need to know are kept informed about developments, progress, problems and plans through consistent, effective communication. Avoids surprises.

Information Gathering: Checks all appropriate sources in identifying the information needed for analysis and decision making. Uses skillful methods in obtaining high quality relevant information. Checks work to ensure accuracy and completeness. Compares observations or finished work to what is expected to find inconsistencies. Clearly documents sources, and organizes the information according to the research needs.

Planning and Organizing: Creates realistic schedules and follows them. Evaluates progress against schedule and goal. Identifies the sequence of tasks and the resources needed to achieve a goal, and prioritizes key action steps. Anticipates the impacts / risks of actions. Seeks and uses others' input about critical actions, timelines, sequencing, scope, methodology, expected outcomes, and priorities. Adjusts plans based on input.

Takes Initiative: Takes appropriate action to resolve issues without requiring direction. Seeks out others involved in a situation to learn their perspectives. Makes difficult decisions in a timely manner. Is willing to make decisions in difficult or ambiguous situations, when time is critical. Assertive in a group when it is necessary to facilitate change, overcome an impasse, face issues, or ensure that decisions are made.

Customer Oriented: Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers. Responsive, quickly and effectively addresses customer concerns or problems. Assures customers he/she is willing to work with them to meet their needs. Presents a cheerful, positive manner with customers.

Confidence and Drive: Confident in one's own ideas and capability to be successful; willingness to take an independent position in the face of opposition. Approaches challenging tasks with a "can-do" attitude. Driven to see projects and tasks through to successful completion, is not swayed by resistance and focuses on achievement of the initiative.

Self-Aware: Conscious of one's own feelings, character and personality and the implications for how your behavior impacts others. Understands personal goals, strengths, weaknesses and motivating forces in one's life. Has an awareness of one's most important personal beliefs and values. Accepts personal weaknesses and works to improve these areas.

Personal Development: Takes responsibility for personal learning and development by acquiring and refining technical and professional skills needed in job related areas. Obtains developmental opportunities proactively. Actively seeks and embraces growth opportunities.

Qualifications

Formal Education: High School diploma or GED

Experience: 1-10+ years

Able to easily and effectively comprehend written material and communicate orally and in writing with employees and customers.

Must possess a valid Class D Driver’s License.

A specialized technical course or equivalent years experience as a Technician preferred.

Job requirements occasionally change requiring re‑training to stay current every 3-5 years.

Problem Solving: Job requires basic problem solving ability using established examples / guidance.

Creativity: Job requires some creativity to generate solutions or improve effectiveness within well-established boundaries.

Autonomy: Job is not normally monitored, but overall objectives are clearly defined. Use of discretion in how the work is done, setting priorities and decision making is encouraged. More emphasis is placed on achieving the desired outcome, not on controlling the process.

Working Environment

Stress Load - Regular exposure to these stresses (20-80% of the time).

Workload Fluctuation - Job involves occasional changes in priorities, complexity and/or quantity of work.

Work Schedule - Work is typically performed during regular business hours with occasional requirements to work nights, holidays and weekends.

Organizational Impact

A person's performance in this job has considerable immediate impact on expense, efficiencies or achievement of overall department objectives.

Supervisory Responsibility

Job has no subordinates / no supervisory responsibility (may work independently or as a member of a team)

Physical Demands

• NA: Not Applicable
• O: Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)
• F: Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)
• C: Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

F: Climbing

O: Balancing

O: Stooping

F: Kneeling

F: Crouching

O: Crawling

F: Reaching

C: Standing

F: Sitting

F: Walking

O: Feeling

F: Fingering

F: Grasping

F: Repetitive Motion

C: Talking

C: Hearing

F: Pushing - Up to 25 lbs.

F: Pulling - Up to 25 lbs.

F: Lifting - Up to 25 lbs.

O: Pushing - 26-50 lbs

O: Pulling - 26-50 lbs

O: Lifting - 26-50 lbs

O: Pushing - Over 50 lbs

O: Pulling - Over 50 lbs

O: Lifting - Over 50 lbs

Environmental Conditions

• NA: Not Applicable
• O: Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)
• F: Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)
• C: Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

O: Inside conditions: Protection from weather but not necessarily from temperature change.

C: Outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.

O: Extreme cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour.

F: Extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour.

F: Noise: sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise level

F: Vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities of whole body.

F: Hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions (i.e. proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working in high places, exposure to heat and/or chemicals.

F: Atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: Fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation.

F: Oils: The air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.

O: Air particulates / contaminants: the worker is required to wear respirator.

RING POWER CORPORATION, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER