Test Technician - 1st Shift
About The Position
At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.
Requirements
- CDL license required
- Four or more years related experience in automotive mechanics, automotive electrical, or mechanical assembly
Nice To Haves
- Possess a CDL
- HVAC certification
- Electrical or mechanical certification
- 5 or more years experience
Responsibilities
- Interpreting shop orders, pump specification charts, and gauges to document performance and timecards.
- Solving problems involving a variety of concrete variables where only limited standardized situations exist utilizing principles of rational thinking and problem solving.
- Transporting trucks between facilities, dealers or repair shops as needed.
- Pumping Trucks: Driving around the lot, fueling and adding DEF, hooking up and drafting water, engaging a pump and discharging water out of any discharge.
- Conducting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic tests (Hydro test at 250 psi to 500 psi).
- Operating each system on the truck including but not limited to foam system, CAFS system, flow meters, electrical valves, dump chutes.
- Road testing: Inspecting trucks to ensure they are safe to drive on the road and refueling.
- Completing DOT checks to ensure the truck is road legal.
- Driving trucks on road and highway safely.
- Using the scale to weigh a truck.
- Calibrating ABS and ESC.
- Performing walk-around fire apparatus inspections.
- Preparing apparatus for testing procedures.
- Initiating tests and monitoring pump performance and engine conditions.
- Documenting test performance.
- Repairing applicable documented inadequacies and providing root cause analysis.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
