About Vermeer Southeast

Vermeer Southeast Sales & Service, Inc, founded in 1967 is a heavy equipment sales and services dealer with locations in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. In 2018 VSE became a 100% employee-owned company.

“From the beginning, we wanted the culture of Vermeer Southeast to be based on the biblical principles of honesty and integrity. We wanted to be fair about everything, treat our employees well, and treat our customers well.”

Merle Den Besten and Mel Bokhoven
Vermeer Southeast Co-founders

About the role

Vermeer Southeast is seeking a Fleet Maintenance Mechanic that delivers outstanding customer experience by efficiently completing prepaid maintenance services, conducting thorough equipment inspections, and executing factory-directed field campaign updates in both shop and field environments. The candidate will perform accurate defect identification and ensures all necessary repairs are completed within designated timeframes, consistently upholding dealership standards.

$5,000 Sign-on-Bonus. $1,000 paid after the first day of employment, $4,000 paid after a successful 90 day performance review conducted by your manager.

What you'll do

1. Customer Satisfaction

• Communicates with customer courteously and professionally at all times.
• Communicates with customers to schedule maintenance and field campaign needs in the shop and/or field.
• Build and maintain customer relationships.
• Introduce other products and services to customers.

2. Diagnoses and Repairs

• Performs maintenance on customer equipment and inspects customer equipment by visual observations, testing equipment and current maintenance checklist
• Performs factory directed field campaign updates on equipment using provided instructions and current best practice.
• Records and documents the maintenance and/or campaign procedures and time to complete the repair.

3. Knowledge of Best Practices

• Participate in factory and/or dealership service schools, meetings and training events.
• Utilize on-the-job-training opportunities.
• Adheres to department safety practices.

Qualifications

Desired minimum experience, education and skills required:

Education and Experience:

• Graduation from high school or GED equivalent.
• Two (2) years technical training/certification or equivalent industry experience.
• Forklift certification a plus.

Necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to understand read and follow verbal and written instructions.
• Must be able to multi-task and be detailed orientated with demonstrated follow through and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated customer service skills.
• Basic typing and computer skills.
• Must have a valid Driver’s License.
• Knowledge of current trends/practice of repairs.
• Working knowledge of the hazards and safety precautions common to heavy equipment.
• Ability to read blueprints, hydraulic and electrical ISO schematics.

Performance/ Behavior necessary to meet the minimum requirements of the job reflecting our company values:

Performance Behavior Requirement necessary to meet the minimum requirements of the job

reflecting our company values:

Servant Leadership – Provide service and support that empowers everyone to reach their full potential.

Honesty – Always being truthful, doing the right thing and treating people fairly.

Dependable – Builds trusting relationships through quality, performance and consistent effort.

Caring – Always seek to be understanding, supportive and thankful for opportunities.

Profitable – Use Vermeer’s profits to grow and improve, to provide for needs and positively impact our community.

Teamwork – Unite skills and efforts around common goals to accomplish more together

than alone.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or maneuver up to 150 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may work in outside weather conditions. The employee may work near moving mechanical parts and be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and vibrations. May be exposed to organic materials, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment may be loud.

The duties listed in this description are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

Benefits offered

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - Certified Employee-Owned
• Health insurance
• Dental and Vision plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Company Paid Telehealth Program - MediOrbis
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Paid Holidays & Vacation
• Others

We are a Drug Free Workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer