Heavy Diesel Fitter
Diagnose, repair and overhaul heavy vehicles and machinery.
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- What's it like to be a Heavy Diesel Fitter?
- How to become a Heavy Diesel Fitter
- Latest Heavy Diesel Fitter jobs
- Top skills and experience for Heavy Diesel Fitters
- Is Heavy Diesel Fitter the right role for you?
- Heavy Diesel Fitter role reviews
What's it like to be a Heavy Diesel Fitter?
A Heavy Diesel Fitter is a mechanic who specialises in the repair and maintenance of heavy vehicles or plant equipment. They inspect engines, diagnose and repair faults, perform routine maintenance and dismantle and reassemble engines and other components.
Tasks and duties
- Diagnosing, repairing and overhauling diesel, petrol and gas–powered vehicles and plant equipment including trucks, tractors, bulldozers, buses, drill rigs and generators.
- Maintaining, diagnosing and repairing hydraulic components of diesel–powered attachments such as hoists, lifts, booms, pumps and buckets.
- Dismantling, repairing and reassembling engines, transmissions, steering columns and other components.
- Using oxy, electric, TIG and MIG welding techniques to replace and repair parts.
- Diagnosing and repairing heavy vehicle fuel injections systems.
- Testing repaired parts for proper performance.
- Testing and repairing basic electrical circuits.
- Using computers and specialised tools to diagnose and repair faults.
- Inspecting vehicles and machinery for faults.
- Following workplace Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) protocols.
How to become a Heavy Diesel Fitter
A Certificate III in Automotive Diesel Engine Technology (AUR31516) is usually required to attain a Heavy Diesel Fitter role. This is typically attained through the completion of a three to four–year apprenticeship.
- Search for employers offering apprenticeships that provide the Certificate III in Automotive Diesel Engine Technology (AUR31516). This apprenticeship usually takes three to four years to complete and consists of a mixture of paid work and training. An apprenticeship is a binding commitment between the employer and trainee for its duration.
- Hold a current Driver’s Licence.
- Build your workplace experience working on heavy machinery and engines.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Heavy Diesel Fitter employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Mining
Mobile Plant
Fault Finding
Hydraulics
Preventive Maintenance
Bulldozing
Excavator Operation
Mine Site Experience
Troubleshooting
Field Service
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Latest Heavy Diesel Fitter reviews
Sep 2023
Well pay and enjoyable job with lots of opportunities to grow and learn, has its challenges but that's part of the fun
Reviewer's QualificationCertificate III in Mobile Plant Technology
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationMining, Resources & Energy
The good thingsThe challenges day to day and the joy of fixing a machine and sending it back to work after it was broken
The challengesHard and hot work, management sometimes don't understand the role and its struggles
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May 2021
If you want good money, a job for life, and a great work life balance consider being a diesel fitter
Reviewer's QualificationCertificate III in Automotive (Diesel Fitting)
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationMaintenance
The good thingsYou get paid to learn as an apprentice while earning more and more money as you become more experienced.
There’s opportunities to continually improve and training and tickets to obtain.
You don’t st...
The challengesSome challenges are
Things just won’t play the game like a bolt won’t go in or a fitting is in a hard to reach spot, these take time, patience and appropriate equipment to sort but once they have bee...
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