Utility Mechanic

Overview

H&K Group is looking for an experienced utility mechanic to repair, maintain, and install infrascture for essential services such as water, gas and electricity.

 

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

 

• Reviews job order and observes and listens to equipment/infrastructure in operation to determine malfunction and to plan work procedures.
• Identify parts for repairs or replacement for all systems on equipment when needed.
• Examines protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices on equipment, and makes adjustments.
• Dismantles machine or equipment to examine parts for defect or to remove defective part.
• Replaces defective part with new part or repairs or reproduces part from various kinds of metal.
• Assembles and test operates machine to verify correction of malfunction and to confirm that it meets manufactures specifications.
• Performs diagnostics thru the use of computers.
• Utility maintenance 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications

Required Skills, Education, and Experience

 

• Written and verbal communication skills
• Problem solving
• Ability to fit test & utilize appropriate PPE as needed
• Ability to meet physical requirements (movement, lifting, as relevant to job)

 

Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience

• One year of relevant utility construction experience
• Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered
• Experienced in underground utilities such as storm sewer, sanitary sewer, water main, and structures
• Three years of related experience and/or training
• OSHA or other relevant safety certifications

 

Physical Demands

• Regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms
• Regularly talk or hear
• Frequently required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Vision abilities include distance, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

 

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to outside weather conditions
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles
• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts
• Noise level is usually moderate

 

H&K provides complete heavy civil contracting and construction materials solutions with safety, speed, quality, efficiency and value. Beginning as a small family business a half century ago, we are now a dynamic group of vertically integrated companies that has been growing and prospering for 50 years.

 

Thank you for your interest in employment with H&K Group, Inc. At H&K, we invest in our people, providing the essential training, instruction and supervisory support that they need to develop and grow within our company. We acknowledge that H&K’s strength and success is directly related to our employees and the talents, dedication and job performance they exemplify. We seek dynamic, motivated people who are driven to make a difference.

 

H&K does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are always looking for the best, most qualified people to join our team.

 

Pre-employment drug testing (EOE)