Town of Belmont Employment Opportunity

Mechanic, AFSCME GRADE 9

Department of Public Works

Hourly Rate Range: $33.5567 – $38.5245 

Qualified applicant needed to perform maintenance and repairs on town vehicles and equipment including cars, police cruisers, fire equipment, pickup trucks, dump trucks, front end loaders, back hoes, snow fighter loaders, compressors, cement mixers, asphalt cutting saws, ground tamper, jackhammer, gas operated water pumps, lawn mowers, blowers and trimmers, sweepers, chainsaws, roto tillers, chipper, traffic line painting machines, rollers, which includes tune-ups, repairs on brakes, transmission, and electrical systems, using diagnostic equipment to diagnose problems. Designs, builds and fabricates using torches, wire feed welders, and other types of welding to repair vehicles and equipment; while maintaining a safe work environment

Responds to and maintains availability to respond to emergency road repair calls.

  • Associate’s degree in automotive technician with three to five years mechanic experience or equivalent.
  • Massachusetts Commercial driver’s license Class B with airbrake and tank vehicles endorsements
  • Division of Professional Licensure Hoisting Engineer license Class HE-2B.
  • Or the ability and commitment to obtain with six months of employment.

This is a fully benefited, 40 hours per week position covered under The AFSCME collective bargaining agreement. Benefit information and collective bargaining agreement can be obtained through the HR office.

Resume, application and cover letters accepted at the HR Department, 455 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478 or humanresources@belmont-ma.gov

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