Location
Elgin, IL | United States
Job description
Organization Name: Chihuahua Tire Shop
Website:
About Our Organization: A family-owned business with over 20 years of experience, Chihuahua Tire understands the importance of safety and vehicle reliability. Our mechanics intentionally treat every vehicle and budget as if it was our own. We pride ourselves on integrity, determination, and consistency. Being committed to offering a variety of quality services at affordable costs is how we stand by every job completed. What initially started off as tires and basic auto repair has aggressively grown into multiple locations throughout the Chicago area. Do you take pride in your work? Are you an avid car enthusiast? Ever had the desire to be part of a respectable team? If so, come join our family and help become a part of growing something that truly impacts the community!
Job Location: 533 North State St. Elgin, IL 60123
375 Fenton Lane, West Chicago, IL 60185
1201 Aurora Avenue, Aurora, IL 60505
120 East Indian Trail, Aurora, IL 60505
5th location coming soon!
FLSA Status: Hourly, Non-Exempt
Job Summary
Your responsibility is to be vigilant in assessing vehicles in need of repair. You will work closely with the Senior Auto Mechanic to become well-versed and independent in your role.
Job Responsibilities:
- Test drive vehicles and test components and systems.
- Repair, reline, replace, and adjust brakes.
- Review work orders and discuss work with supervisors.
- Confer with customers to obtain descriptions of vehicle problems and to discuss work to be performed and future repair requirements.
- Examine vehicles to determine the extent of damage or malfunctions.
- Align vehicles' front ends.
- Tear down, repair, and rebuild faulty assemblies, such as power systems, steering systems, and linkages.
- Perform routine and scheduled maintenance services, such as oil changes, lubrications, and tune-ups.
- Follow checklists to ensure all important parts are examined, including belts, hoses, steering systems, spark plugs, brake and fuel systems, wheel bearings, and other potentially troublesome areas.
- Maintain cleanliness of the work area.
- Disassemble units and inspect parts for wear.
- Perform other relevant duties to the role as they arise.
Work Activities:
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment.
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards.
- Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance.
- Align equipment or machinery.
- Clean work areas.
- Confer with customers or users to assess problems.
- Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
- Inspect vehicles to determine overall condition.
- Read work orders or descriptions of problems to determine repairs or modifications needed.
- Repair worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
- Replace worn, damaged, or defective mechanical parts.
- Service vehicles to maintain functionality.
Education and Experience:
Years of Experience
Education: Unspecified
Basic Skills:
- Critical Thinking
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. - Active Learning
Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Social Skills:
- Service Orientation.
Actively looking for ways to help people.
System Skills:
- Judgment and Decision Making
Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. - Systems Analysis
Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. - Systems Evaluation
Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Physical Demands:
- Walk; Sit; Use hands to finger, handle, or feel; Reach with hands and arms; Climb or balance; Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Lifts Weight or Exerts Force Work Environment:
- Up to 50 pounds; Up to 100 pounds.
About Chihuahua Tire Shop: We are family owned and operated for nearly 20 years.Initially we started as just used tires and auto repair, we’ve grown into four locations and offer a wide array of auto services. Not only do we specialize in auto repair and maintenance, but we also offer a variety of tires for every price point, customization capabilities, audio work, stereos, window tinting, and much more. And we’ve also become the go-to in the Chicago area for aftermarket parts. We are so happy to say that we really enjoy what we do.!
Job tags
Salary
$1,200 - $1,350 per week
