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Overview

Join our dynamic team as a Trailer Repair Technician, where your mechanical expertise and passion for heavy equipment will drive success! In this vital role, you will be responsible for diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining a wide range of trailer and heavy equipment systems to ensure optimal performance and safety.

Responsibilities

  • Perform comprehensive inspections of trailers and heavy equipment to identify mechanical issues using schematics and diagnostic tools.
  • Repair and replace components such as brakes, suspensions, shocks & struts, hydraulics, and electrical systems to restore equipment functionality.
  • Conduct welding, fabrication, and assembly tasks to modify or upgrade trailers and machinery as needed.
  • Utilize power tools, hand tools, and heavy lifting techniques to execute repairs efficiently while maintaining safety standards.
  • Service tires, perform wheel alignments, and handle tire replacement or repair to ensure vehicle safety on the road.
  • Diagnose complex automotive electrical systems and perform necessary repairs using automotive diagnostics tools.
  • Maintain detailed service records, complete maintenance logs, and ensure all work complies with safety regulations including air brake systems.

Requirements

  • Proven experience working in dealership environments or heavy equipment repair shops.
  • Strong mechanical knowledge of industrial equipment, farm machinery, excavators, cranes, and tractor-trailers.
  • Skilled in reading schematics and technical manuals for troubleshooting electrical and hydraulic systems.
  • Proficient with welding techniques such as soldering and metal fabrication for custom repairs or modifications.
  • Ability to operate heavy machinery such as forklifts, excavators, cranes, and other heavy truck equipment safely and effectively preferred.
  • Excellent customer service skills with the ability to communicate technical information clearly to clients or team members.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Expected hours: 40.0 – 46.0 per week.
  • Work Location: In person.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Ottoville, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $27/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Ohio, whose middle half runs $23–$32/hr across 100 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 54% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Ottoville, OH

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Ottoville, OH, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 168 other active welding openings from 105 employers. Browse welding jobs across Ohio.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Kadant Black Clawson LLC (5), TP Mechanical (5), and Welding Shop in Cleveland, OH (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Ohio, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Columbus at $30/hr, Cincinnati at $25/hr, and Cleveland at $24/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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