Test Technician - 1st Shift

Responsibilities

• Pumping Trucks
• Driving around the lot able to fuel and add DEF
• Hook up and draft water, engage a pump and discharge water out any discharge.
• Conduct hydrostatic and hydrodynamic tests (Hydro test at 250 psi to 500 psi)
• Operate each system on the truck including but not limited to foam system, CAFS system, flow meters, electrical valves, dump chutes
• Road tester
• Inspect truck to ensure it is safe to drive on the road and refuel
• Complete DOT check to ensure the truck is road legal
• Drive truck on road and highway safely
• Use the scale to weigh a truck
• Calibrate ABS and ESC
• Perform walk around fire apparatus inspections
• Prepare apparatus for testing procedures
• Initiate test and monitor pump performance and engine conditions
• Document test performance
• Repair applicable documented inadequacies and provide root cause analysis

Requirements

• CDL license required
• Four or more years related experience in automotive mechanics, automotive electrical, or mechanical assembly
• STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS
• Possess a CDL
• HVAC certification
• Electrical or mechanical certification
• 5 or more years experience
• OTHER PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
• *All positions require the ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations. Detailed physical job analysis available upon request.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Sense of sound is required.
• Sense of balance is required.
• Limb and finger dexterity is required.
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to perform twisting, turning, bending, climbing, pushing, and pulling motions.
• Ability to lift 35lbs max
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)-steel-toe shoes, safety glasses, vest.
• Subject to random drug testing
• WORKING CONDITIONS:
• Working conditions will be inside and outside where temperatures will vary from extreme heat to extreme cold for extended periods of time. This position is regularly exposed to vibration and loud noises.
• Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic i

Benefits

Additional Information

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company 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. JOB SUMMARY The positions within the Tester are responsible for interpreting shop orders, pump specification charts, and gauges to document performance and timecards. This position will be responsible for solving problems involving a variety of concrete variables where only limited standardized situations exist utilizing principles of rational thinking and problem solving. Transport trucks between facilities, dealers or repair shops as needed.

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