Heavy Equipment Technician

Job Description

The Service Technician at Vermeer Buda is responsible for high quality and effective repair of construction equipment. Provides excellent customer service, maintains professionalism, and ensures appropriate and detailed records for time, parts, supplies, purchases, and repairs.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Reconditions and repairs equipment and components.
• Maintains complete and detailed working records for time, parts, supplies, and outside purchases for repairs.
• Performs diagnostic inspections as directed.
• Accountable for following all DOT, OSHA, ISO9001 and established Company rules, regulations, and guidelines.
• Measure of success determined by established Company guidelines, including but not limited to repairs completed, time required to complete repairs, feedback from customers, ability to take guidance and direction from Manager professionally, and execute upon such feedback.
• Ability to hookup to machines and diagnose with laptop.
• Ability to perform fabrication and welding processes.
• Maintains and cares for shop tools, all Company equipment and Company vehicles.
• Keeps and maintains a clean work area
  
  

Desired Skills and Experience:

• High School diploma, GED, or vocational training/certification
• 1 - 3 years’ experience in the same or similar industry
• Obtain certifications from necessary manufacturers.
• Owns and maintains personal tool inventory.
• Mechanical/technical aptitude, safe work habits, a good working knowledge of equipment operations and mechanical functions. Strong current electronic diagnosing capabilities, works with minimal supervision, customer service oriented, a problem solver, reliable, ethical, able to adapt to the people and environment around them - customers, suppliers, co-workers, and manufacturer's employees.
• Experience with hydraulic systems, electrical, electronics, pneumatics, diagnosing and calibration a plus.
• Communicates professionally, respectfully, and honestly at all times and communication is to be clear and language is to be profanity free while employee demeanor is to be calm and composed.
• Must be able to lift at least 50 lbs., stand, walk, use hands and fingers, handle, feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk and hear.
• Personal appearance must be neat and clean.
• Certain positions require a valid driver's license and ability to meet requirements of the Company Driver Policy; the Company will review motor vehicle records annually for all employees for whom driving a motor vehicle is an essential job function of the job, and when employees must obtain and drive rental vehicles during the course of conducting company business.
  
  

Company Description

Celebrating nearly 50 years of Excellence -- Founded in 1978, we are a full-service equipment dealer specializing in selling, leasing and servicing equipment manufactured by Vermeer Corporation located in Pella, Iowa. You can count on our Texas-sized dedication to you in everything we do. That spirit comes out loud and clear through our industry-leading equipment and our constant drive to back it up with quality parts, reliable service, superior support and our extensive industry experience and expertise. As of 2023, the Vermeer Texas-Louisiana dealership employs more master certified service technicians than any other dealer in the world!

Regional leader — We’ve grown to be the region’s leader in getting you the products and service you need to succeed. Today, you can find us at 14 full-service locations in Texas and southern Louisiana.

Honors — We’ve earned Pinnacle status in the Vermeer Mark of Excellence program, the highest achievement bestowed on an industrial dealer from the manufacturer. We’re proud of this designation that recognizes superior achievement in parts, service, sales & marketing, financial management, operations, employee development and market share.

Celebrating nearly 50 years of Excellence -- Founded in 1978, we are a full-service equipment dealer specializing in selling, leasing and servicing equipment manufactured by Vermeer Corporation located in Pella, Iowa. You can count on our Texas-sized dedication to you in everything we do. That spirit comes out loud and clear through our industry-leading equipment and our constant drive to back it up with quality parts, reliable service, superior support and our extensive industry experience and expertise. As of 2023, the Vermeer Texas-Louisiana dealership employs more master certified service technicians than any other dealer in the world! Regional leader — We’ve grown to be the region’s leader in getting you the products and service you need to succeed. Today, you can find us at 14 full-service locations in Texas and southern Louisiana. Honors — We’ve earned Pinnacle status in the Vermeer Mark of Excellence program, the highest achievement bestowed on an industrial dealer from the manufacturer. We’re proud of this designation that recognizes superior achievement in parts, service, sales & marketing, financial management, operations, employee development and market share.