Mechanic

A full-time mechanic at Traffic Safety is a bit different from a mechanic position at other companies. As it currently stands, we have full-time mechanic work for about 4-6 months of the year, depending on the weather. Because of this, you will be responsible for helping out in other areas of the company when mechanic work is not available. Your responsibilities includes, but are not limited to:

Build, install and repair snowplows and spreaders on customer vehicles

Keeping customers vehicles and possessions safe and not damaging them during work

Assisting customers with questions and technical support both in person and on the phone

Working with any and all equipment/mechanical needs the company decides to bring on (lawnmowers, motorcycles, ATV, snowblowers, dumpbodies etc.)

Inventory management with keeping parts in their correct places and keeping the area tidy

Keeping your personal tools and work area clean and organized

Assisting in the shipping department with order fulfillment both with UPS and LTL shipments

Assisting with inventory management in other departments - receiving shipments with forklift, organizing the inventory, pulling product and helping load customers

Production in the sign shop

With our business being seasonal in nature, some seasons will have a heavier workload and some will be lighter. Typically, the fall and winter consist of our busy season, bringing about 3/5 of total revenue for the company in around 4-5 months. As a result of this, combined with the role the mechanic plays during these times, vacation time is hard to approve during the busy plow months and employees are encouraged to take their time off outside of the October-January/February time frame. This must be something understood and accepted. That being said, I do understand life happens during those months and some things might get exceptions, but as a whole it should be avoided.

Our typical work day begins at 8am and ends at 4:30pm with a 1-hour lunch break for employees. All employees are expected to be ready to work at the start time, which typically means arriving a few minutes early to get set up for the day. We typically try to stagger our breaks so that there are always people around to help if needed. You would coordinate your breaks with Nick. We also offer summer hours, which are 7:30am to 3:30pm. These hours begin sometime around the end of the plow season and run until the beginning of September.

Once the plow season gets kicked off, there is the possibility of Saturday hours when necessary. Saturday work helps us get caught up on work as well as push for the extra revenue when the work is available. These hours are never obligatory and are at the discretion of the employee. We typically would be open for business from 8am-noon on those days, some times staying later if there is the work, but being closed to the public. These hours for hourly employees are added into their total hourly rate. For salaried employees, it's added in as 1.25x their hourly rate. Some seasons, we have about 2 months worth of Saturday hours and other seasons, like last year, we had only 1-2 Saturdays we were open.