Field Service Technician - Agriculture ($5000 Signing Bonus)

Our Ag Equipment Dealership has an opening for a full-time, experienced Field Service Mechanic to work to work on agricultural equipment. The Dealership sells and services Challenger tractors, combines, and hay equipment; LEXION combines; AGCO RoGators, TerraGators, and SpraCoupes; Sunflower tillage equipment; and White Planters. We are looking for a dedicated employee with excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills to help deliver top notch service as a mechanic to our rapidly growing customer base. Includes a $5000 signing bonus. Competitive minimum wage based on experience of $34+/hr.

Responsibilities

• Communicates job status with supervisor and communicates job is completed to receive the subsequent assignment.
• Diagnose and repair agricultural equipment including tractors, combines, balers, sprayers, tillage equipment, and planters in the area
• Responds to customer needs in a positive, supportive, and timely manner to ensure maximum value for work performed; a company truck is provided
• Maintains paperwork documentation of work performed (work orders) in a complete and timely manner on a daily/job basis
• Using a high degree of independent judgment, assumes responsibility for the safe maintenance and repair of a variety of complex equipment and tools, which involve mechanical, hydraulic, gas, diesel, and electrical systems at branch or customer locations
• Maintains a clean and safe work area, adheres to all safety procedures; maintains a service vehicle in a clean and professional manner, and ensures the vehicle is always properly maintained
• Positively interacts with manager and team members to satisfy customer needs
• Willing to respond to after hour emergency calls as directed by supervisor
• Performs other duties as assigned/required
• Documents labor, addition of segments, assuring that work order can be closed and billed as communicated with the customer
• Provides assistance to all other levels of technicians as needed in regard to troubleshooting repairs
• Identifies and communicates the need for parts for inventory

Qualifications

• Knowledge of hydraulics, transmissions, undercarriage, track systems, components, electrical, and fuel systems;
• Basic computer skills
• 2-year technical degree or high school diploma and several years of comparable mechanic experience
• Previous experience with CAT equipment; Challenger tractors, combines or hay equipment; LEXION combines; AGCO RoGators, TerraGators, and SpraCoupes; Sunflower tillage equipment; or White Planters a plus but not required
• Obtain a DOT medical certification card
• Pass a DOT pre-employment drug screen & physical
• Able to operate equipment safely
• Possesses the ability to diagnose all equipment without supervision; is also able to read, follow, understand, and communicate schematics.
• Personal characteristics: Desire to provide outstanding, professional customer service, strong attention to detail, excellent problem solver, committed, and possesses written and verbal communication skills
• Own mechanic tool set
• 5+ years of relevant diesel/Ag equipment repair experience, preferably some field experience
• Ability to maintain safe and clean work environment
• Class A CDL or willingness to obtain one within a defined period of time
• Willing and able to respond to after-hour emergency calls as directed by supervisor
• Clean driving record

Minimum Physical Requirements

• Lift bulky objects
• Neck rotation, trunk rotation, stair climbing, repetitive bending, kneeling, sustained squat, forward reaching, overhead reaching, reach and lift, ladder climb and carry, crawling.
• Push/pull up to 50 lbs.
• Lift/carry up to 60 lbs.
• Working conditions may be indoor and/or outdoor. Noise level may be loud at times.