
COMPTON GARAGE/TRAILER SPECIALIST
Los Angeles, CAJob$33.8/hrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Compton Garage/Trailer Specialist performs repairs, maintenance, installations, replacements, preventive maintenance, and diagnostics on semi-trailers. The role includes equipment inspections, safety documentation, computer-based work orders, and compliance with applicable regulations. The specialist supplies their own mechanic tools and may work varied shifts, including nights and weekends. High school education or equivalent, technical training, and prior trailer repair experience are desired.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Perform a wide variety of repairs, maintenance, installations, replacements, preventative maintenance and diagnostic tasks for various makes and models of semi-trailers in an efficient, timely, accurate, professional and safe manner in accordance with all company polices DOT, OSHA and other governmental standards and regulations. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Repair or rebuild all or part of equipment to include foundation brakes, air systems, ABS, suspensions, sliders, landing gear, roll up doors, electrical, lights, interior and exterior body repairs.
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Access any area of the equipment to perform necessary maintenance (including: inspect and perform work in, on or under parts of trailers).
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Ability to achieve objectives under a tight daily schedule.
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Perform safety inspections of equipment and prepare safety documentation
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Complete computer based work orders with accurate repair descriptions of the work performed and insure parts used are charged to the work order.
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Basic welding skills such as Oxy/Acetylene, ARC
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Follow company policy and procedures in making all repairs.
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Apply knowledge and work in accordance with DOT, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interstate Authority, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other rules and regulations as required
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Access any area of the equipment to perform necessary maintenance (including: inspect and perform work in, on or under parts of trailers).
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Responsible for shop cleanliness, safety and compliance.
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Apply knowledge and work in accordance with DOT, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interstate Authority, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other rules and regulations as required.
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Maintain knowledge and proficiency on equipment and technologies that enhance productivity.
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Participate in company and/or vendor training programs
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Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without accommodation.
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
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Available to work a variety of shifts, including days, evenings, nights and weekends
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Prompt daily attendance at assigned work location
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Safely walk & stand for extended periods of time on various surfaces that may be uneven or slippery (including working outdoors in inclement weather)
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Lift objects of various shapes, sizes and weights (up to 50 lbs. frequently and greater than 75 lbs. occasionally)
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Safely walk, reach (including above your head), bend, climb, push, pull, twist, squat & kneel as necessary to perform the job duties
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Ability to communicate effectively with diverse population
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Must supply own mechanic tools required for trailer repairs
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Minimum 18 years of age
Desired
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High school education or equivalent.
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Technical training in mechanics, welding, body and door repair
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2 years previous trailer repair and maintenance experience
$33.80 - $33.80 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 2,228 open Mechanic jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$33.8/hr
- California median$33–40/hr87 hourly ranges
- US median$26–34/hr1,227 hourly ranges
This rate, $33.80/hr, is 7% below the California median midpoint ($37/hr) — in the middle half of Mechanic hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 104 open Mechanic jobs in California and 2,228 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Transdev6 open
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- Experience
- Mechanic postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (1,283 postings).
- Education
- 16 of the 2,228 open Mechanic jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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