Wm
Leading provider of comprehensive waste management services across North America.
Senior Heavy Equipment Mechanic
Maintain and repair heavy equipment at a waste management facility.
Job Highlights
About the Role
As a Senior Heavy Equipment Mechanic, you will service and repair essential equipment such as bulldozers, scrapers, and front‑end loaders at recycling facilities that serve over 20 million customers nationwide. Your work is recognized for its impact on the operation’s efficiency and safety. Daily duties include preventative maintenance, diagnosing and repairing differentials, hydraulic, motor, transmission, drive, HVAC, and electrical systems, completing paperwork such as work orders and oil samples, and maintaining other equipment like light plants, water pumps, and welders. The work environment involves frequent lifting, pushing, pulling, crouching, climbing, standing, walking, and grasping, as well as exposure to cuts, burns, toxic chemicals, dirt, odors, noise, and weather extremes. Work is performed both inside garages and shops and outdoors in inclement conditions. • Repair and maintain heavy equipment such as bulldozers, scrapers, backhoes, loaders, yard trucks, tractors, forklifts, and company vehicles. • Diagnose and fix differentials, hydraulic systems, motors, transmissions, drives, HVAC, and electrical systems. • Perform preventative maintenance per site checklist and complete related paperwork (work orders, PM checklists, oil samples). • Service additional equipment including light plants, water pumps, welders, and other ancillary machinery.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸heavy repair
- ▸preventive maintenance
- ▸system diagnostics
- ▸hydraulics
- ▸electrical
- ▸work orders
What You Bring
Candidates must have at least six years of heavy‑equipment maintenance experience, a valid driver’s license with a clean record, be over 18, legally authorized to work in the United States, and able to meet the physical demands of the role. Successful applicants must also pass a pre‑employment drug screen and physical exam. The ideal team member thrives when working independently, takes accountability for the quality of their work, communicates effectively with colleagues, and demonstrates curiosity and determination in problem‑solving. • Require minimum 6 years heavy‑equipment maintenance experience, valid driver’s license with clean record, and ability to meet physical demands. • Must be 18+, legally authorized to work in the U.S., and pass pre‑employment drug screen and physical. • Thrive independently, take accountability, communicate effectively, and be a curious problem‑solver.
Requirements
- ▸heavy equipment
- ▸6+ years
- ▸driver's license
- ▸physical demands
- ▸18+
- ▸problem solving
Benefits
Are you looking for stable work as a Senior Heavy Equipment Mechanic with benefits that provide financial security for you and your family, a safe work environment, and respect for work‑life balance? WM offers a career where employee safety and well‑being are top priorities. Compensation includes a pay range starting at $34+ per hour, stable hours for financial stability, access to a stock purchase plan, comprehensive health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, and a company‑matched 401(k) plan. These benefits support employees whether they are building a family or advancing their careers. • Work Monday‑Friday, 7:00 AM‑3:30 PM at the Show Low, AZ material disposal facility. • Earn $34+ hourly (based on experience) with stable hours, stock purchase plan, comprehensive health, dental, vision, prescription coverage, and company‑matched 401(k).
Work Environment
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