GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION To provide and coordinate preventative maintenance and repair for the vehicles owned and in use by the Washington County Regional Ambulance Authority-Central EMS to ensure safe, reliable transportation for response to emergency and non-emergency calls by the EMTs and Paramedics.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Order parts for maintenance of the vehicles. This duty is performed daily, about 10% of the time.
- Repair medical equipment and stretchers. This duty is performed monthly, about 5% of the time.
- Fabricate and install components. This duty is performed irregularly, about 5% of the time.
- Diagnose and repair the ambulance module. This duty is performed daily, about 20% of the time.
- Cosmetic and body repair. This duty is performed irregularly, about 10% of the time.
- Mechanical diagnosis and repair. This duty is performed daily, about 20% of the time.
- Preventative maintenance. This duty is performed daily, about 50% of the time.
- Assist with vehicle specifications. This duty is performed irregularly, about 5% of the time.
- Maintain generator. This duty is performed monthly, about 10% of the time.
- Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability
required.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE High school, plus specialized schooling and/or on the job education in a specific skill area; e.g. data
processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc, plus 4 years related experience and/or
training. Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT Funds, Property & Equipment Responsibility:
$ 100,000
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES None.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and understand general business/company related articles and professional
journals; Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common
fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar
graphs.
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret
an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several
abstract and concrete variables.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED Under direction where a definite objective is set up and the employee plans and arranges own work,
referring only unusual cases to supervisor.
PLANNING Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or
sequence of performance of own work, in addition, the work operations of a group of employees, all
performing basically the same type of work.
DECISION MAKING Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance
and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance, either of which would affect the
work operations of small organizational component and the organization's clientele.
MENTAL DEMAND Very close mental demand. Operations requiring very close and continuous attention for control of
operations which require a high degree of coordination or immediate response. Operations requiring
intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of handling situations
regarding the organization's administration and operations; also to determine or select material and
equipment where highly variable sequences are involved.
ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING Moderately directed. Activities covered by wide-ranging policies and courses of action, and generally
directed as to execution and review. High order of analytical, interpretative, and/or constructive thinking
in varied situations.
USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS Regular use of highly complex machines and equipment; specialized or advanced software programs.
ACCURACY Probable errors would normally not be detected in succeeding operations and could possibly affect
organization-patron relationship, involve re-work, or additional expenditures in order to properly resolve
the error. The possibility of such errors would occur quite frequently in performance of the job. May
also cause inaccuracies or incomplete information that would be used in other segments of the
organization as a basis for making subsequent decisions, plans, or actions.
PUBLIC CONTACT Occasional contacts with patrons on routine matters.
EMPLOYEE CONTACT Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in
coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal course
of performing duties. Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making
recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.
REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS ASE auto certification
PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS EVT level 1, 2, and 3 Ambulance certifications, ASE medium to heavy truck certification
SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED Advanced: Other
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Not indicated.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may
be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand, walk, use
hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; frequently required to climb or
balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally required to sit, taste or smell. The employee must
occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds;
regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close
vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; and depth perception.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made
to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving
mechanical parts, outdoor weather conditions; frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles; and
occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme heat, risk of
electrical shock, vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.