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Quanta Services

Builds and repairs power grids and utility networks

Heavy Equipment Shop Mechanic

Heavy Duty & Diesel Vehicle MaintenanceConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeGrand Prairie, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of heavy mechanical experience, preferably working on heavy equipment.
  • Knowledge of hydraulics, air brakes, and electrical components.
  • Ability to operate and work out of a mobile mechanics truck.
  • A current Department of Transportation medical certificate is required, and the employee must be able to obtain a Class A commercial driver's license.
  • Ability to meet the physical demands of the work, including lifting and carrying loads, frequent overhead reaching, and standing, crawling, climbing, bending, twisting, pushing, pulling, and reaching.
  • Ability to work outdoors in variable weather and rural areas, around energized and de-energized electric lines, moving mechanical parts, and potentially confined spaces, odors, gases, dust, dirt, and loud noise.
  • Subject to drug and alcohol testing under applicable federal regulations or as required by Quanta.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and repair or maintain heavy equipment, including aerial equipment such as bucket trucks and diggers, directional drills, excavators, backhoes, trailers, pickups, one-ton vehicles, and larger trucks.

Desired Qualifications

  • Heavy mechanical experience, preferably working on heavy equipment.

About the Company

Quanta Services

Builds and repairs power grids and utility networks

Quanta Services builds, upgrades and repairs the power lines, substations, pipelines and communications networks that utilities, power producers and large energy users rely on. It runs its own training school, Northwest Lineman College, which prepares workers for electric line work at campuses in several states. Quanta works through regional operating companies that handle engineering, construction, storm restoration and routine upkeep for their customers. Clients pay under long-term master service agreements for ongoing work and under fixed-price or cost-based contracts for large projects. Quanta was founded in 1997 by combining four electrical contractors and is based in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1997

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