Wheel Alignment Technician

**An Wheel Alignment Technician is responsible for the wheel alignment and balancing of customer vehicles and to provide technical support to the operations staff.**

**Duties**:

- Perform wheel alignments on vehicles utilising the wheel alignment computer for accurate assessment and adjustment to correct vehicle road handling performance.
- Check, adjust, balance and align steering and suspension on vehicles for optimum road handling.
- Advanced technicians may be required to perform underbody corrective work (only MITO certified technicians may carry out underbody work).
- Drive vehicle onto hoists or jacks in preparation for removing wheels from vehicles for fitting new tyre to wheel.
- Advise customers on different types of products and tyres, recommending suitable vehicle tyres and advising on tyre costs and technical aspects of tyre performance.
- Remove customer vehicle tyres, changing tyres or repairing tyre punctures and tubes using rattle gun and/or die grinder as required.
- Test-drive customer vehicles to diagnose problems and ensure servicing provided has corrected the problem.
- Check and shelve all incoming new and retread tyres into store ensuring stock is safely shelved and stacked into tyre racks, and stock supplies recorded.
- Perform any general maintenance of machinery in the workshop such as the calibrating wheel alignment machine and balance machine, and fixing minor faults in balancer or repairing threaded wheel nuts.

**Requirements**:

- Must reside in or near Roodepoort.
- Must have 2 years’ experience in the tyre industry.
- Technical tyre knowledge necessary.
- Wheel Alignment Qualification.
- Good level of personal fitness required.
- An interest in mechanical work and customer service work.
- Experience working with motor vehicles and good mechanical skills.
- Interest in practical or manual work with an aptitude for technical specifications.
- Effective teamwork and cooperation skills, with good communication skills.

**Salary Structure and Working Conditions**:

- Hourly rate of R 45.00 - R 55.00 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications.
- Mon - Fri - 7:00 - 16:30.
- Working location - Cosmo City Business Park, Cosmo City.
- After 3 months you will be added to the companies Provident Fund.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: R45.00 - R55.00 per hour

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Roodepoort, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Wheel Alignment: 3 years (required)
- Tyre knowledge: 2 years (required)
- Repairing: 2 years (required)
- Administrative: 2 years (required)