Test Technician - 1st Shift

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.

YOUR IMPACT

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
 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

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.

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability for any part of the recruitment process, please contact our talent acquisition team by email [email protected].

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer. Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.

Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.