About This Role
This auto mechanic position involves performing preventive maintenance, diagnosing malfunctions, and repairing various engines, motor-powered equipment, and component assemblies. The role requires expertise in both diesel and gasoline internal combustion engines and their components, as well as the ability to contribute to vehicle breakdown recovery and field repairs.
Responsibilities
- Perform preventive maintenance on engines, motor-powered equipment, and component assemblies and systems used in automotive, construction, and special-purpose motorized equipment
- Diagnose malfunctions in engines, motor-powered equipment, and component assemblies and systems
- Repair engines, motor-powered equipment, and component assemblies and systems
- Overhaul and repair diesel and gasoline internal combustion engines and their prospective components
- Provide diagnosis and repair to engine systems, brake systems, transmissions, ignition systems, rear ends, steering, suspensions, clutches, differential assemblies, fuel systems, hydraulic systems, electronic and electrical systems, and other related motor vehicle components and assemblies
- Contribute to vehicle breakdown recovery
- Handle repairs and adjustments in the field to enable a vehicle to return to the garage or repair shop under its own power
- Communicate information to supervisors
- Provide orders to other journeymen as directed
Requirements
- Five years of full-time satisfactory experience as an auto mechanic; or not less than two and one-half years of full-time satisfactory experience as an auto mechanic plus sufficient helper or apprentice experience or relevant full-time education acquired in a college, university, technical school, trade school or vocational high school approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization, to make up the equivalent of five years of acceptable experience (six months of acceptable experience will be credited for each year of helper or apprentice experience or relevant education)
- At the time of appointment, possess a New York State Class B Commercial Driver License ("CDL") or a Motor Vehicle Driver License valid in the State of New York and a Learner's Permit for a Class B Commercial Driver License
- Appointees hired with a Learner's Permit must obtain the Class B CDL within six months of appointment
- Maintain the CDL, with no restrictions that would preclude the performance of Auto Mechanic work, for the duration of employment
Important Details
- Application deadline: 27 October 2026
Application Process
- Candidates must be serving permanently in the title, or reachable on civil service list, or file for the upcoming civil service exam #7010
