Overview
Body and Fender Specialist Jobs in Trenton, NJ at United States Postal Service
Title: Body and Fender Specialist
Company: United States Postal Service
Location: Trenton, NJ
Job Requirements
Must be able to communicate in and understand the English language with or without a reasonable disability accommodation
under the Rehabilitation Act.
Postal Service employment is conditional upon your meeting medical suitability, general eligibility and suitability, and
background check requirements. Therefore, if you receive a job offer, note that it will be conditional upon you meeting these
requirements, even if you are allowed to begin working first.
For this vacancy announcement, the Postal Service will be referring a set number of the highest-ranked eligible candidates
for selection consideration.
DRIVING REQUIRED: Applicants must have a valid state drivers license, a safe driving record, and at least two years of
unsupervised experience driving passenger cars or larger. The driving must have taken place in the U.S. or its possessions
or territories or in U.S. military installations worldwide.
SALARY RANGE: Starting annual salary $74,422 paid bi-weekly
Duties And Responsibilities
- Diagnoses and locates defects in automotive body structures and determines the remedy or method of repair.
- Dissassembles and reassembles body structures to align and adjust them properly; straightens and aligns frames.
- Inserts panels and sections, rivets and/or welds them in place, and refinishes for painting.
- Performs gas or electric welding, brazing, and soldering on various types and thicknesses of metals, choosing correct
materials for the various kinds of work.
- Performs repairs such as filling, patching, and paneling on non-metallic structures such as fiberglass and other plastic
materials.
- Fills damaged parts of metal bodies with solder, putty, fiberglass, and other plastics and refinishes for painting.
- Repairs or replaces such parts as windshield posts, seat parts, and operators partitions.
- Adjusts, repairs, or replaces doors, hardware, glass, and other related parts.
- Repairs or rebuilds motor vehicle seats.
- Uses hand and power tools of the trade such as hammers, spoons, files, dolly blocks, grinders, buffers, drills, frame
aligners, and alignment indicators, reshapers, micrometers, thickness guages, scales, dividers, calipers, etc.
- Reads specifications and drawings to determine dimensions, shapes, materials, finishes, etc
