Master Heavy Equipment Mechanic-Traveling in Scotland

Harsco Environmental is the premier provider of material processing and environmental services to the global steel and metals industries. Our onsite mill services and resource recovery services offer sustainable solutions that maximize environmental benefit and return valuable raw material into production. We also have developed a range of by-products for specialized applications across industry, construction and agriculture, which utilize Harsco’s expertise in mineral materials.

Are you looking for a satisfying career with a starting pay over $82,000 per year plus overtime, with great benefits and paid holidays? Do you like to travel and work with off-road heavy mobile equipment? If so, we have a great opportunity for you to join a growing team. Our travelling master mechanics travel to our sites to support the local maintenance team.

Master mechanics repair, overhaul, or modify vehicles and equipment that are complex, involve complicated and varied systems, or entail unusually difficult problems because available guidelines do not apply. Vehicles and equipment contain numerous, interconnected, and complex mechanical and non-mechanical systems.

Qualifications:

• Ability to exercise judgment and independence in determining the methods and techniques required to solve unusually complex maintenance and repair problems.
• Plan and improvise repair procedures, find ways to mechanically and physically adapt or alter items to fit and mesh into systems for which the items were not specifically designed, or find ways to diagnose and correct defects when existing methods and procedures do not give the desired results.
• The supervisor assigns work orally or through work orders or schedules. The employee independently determines work methods, sequences, tools, and equipment to use in making the extensive and complex repairs to the vehicles and equipment described at this level.
• Responsibility for a variety of systems or for the entire vehicle involving the repair, overhaul, or modification of engines, transmissions, or other major systems.
• Develop or improvise methods, alter parts, and make repairs in the absence of technical guidelines.
• Modify parts to fit and mesh into systems for which the parts were not designed.
• Improvise modifications to equipment to correct recurring malfunctions; or design modifications to meet special test requirements or other special needs.
• Can use specialized diagnostic equipment to diagnose problems in complex state-of-the-art electric and electronic systems to identify and replace defective components such as chips, sensors, and printed circuit boards.

Additional Information:

We offer competitive benefits, including health insurance, life insurance and disability plans, as well as a 401k with company matching. Harsco Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This commitment applies to decisions made with respect to hiring, placement, training, compensation, benefits, promotions, demotions, transfers, terminations, layoffs, return from layoffs, administration of benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment.