Pickers Shreveport Yard Technician

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Job title: Yard Technician

WORK PERFORMED IN THIS POSITION

Receive salvage vehicles, unload, stage, and move salvage vehicles on company property using heavy equipment.
Remove fluids from salvage vehicles using appropriate equipment and following written process.
Remove catalytic converters from salvage vehicles.
Remove batteries from salvage vehicles and charge to prepare for sale.
Maintain auto defluiding building in a clean, organized manner.
Responsible for care and control of auto defluiding tools and equipment.
Operate heavy equipment in an efficient manner so as to avoid creating ruts, potholes, or standing water by using heavy equipment on wet or soft ground on the yard.
Coordinate and work with the Yard Lead on moving salvage vehicles on company property.
Crosstrain on yard lead position.
Health, safety, and environmental compliance.
Compliance with employee handbook and all standard operating procedures

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions.
Ability to wear personal protective equipment including hard hat, steel toe boots, high visibility clothing, and gloves.
Ability to work standing up to 9 hours per day.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Basic mechanical knowledge and general working knowledge of automotive parts
Experience with basic power tools, forklift operation, and heavy equipment preferred
Ability to follow verbal and written instructions and follow standard operating procedures (SOP)
Ability to stand, walk, bend, climb, lift 50lbs, and stretch as required by a specific task
Must have reliable means of transportation to work

PHYSICAL ASPECTS:

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:

Will occasionally be exposed to:

Operates an auto salvage yard providing used vehicle parts.

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