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MASTER SPECIALISTS

Prospective Technicians/Mechanics


What we are looking for

Someone who wants to build things, fix things, and has the passion, skills, and smiles to make it happen.

  • Second shift jobs
  • Second shift jobs that can transition into first shift
  • First shift jobs

About us

We are a lean, skilled group that provides mechanical, IT, and on-site solutions to other businesses in the transportation, logistics, and customer service industries. We provide full service of end to end business needs (meaning our clients give us a basic direction or question, and we answer with a suite of tools and proper execution).

We are located in the Charlotte, NC, USA metro area

What you can offer

  • Drive to improve customer service
  • A positive attitude and demeanor
  • A commitment to showing up when promised
  • Time management
  • A passion for the mechanics and science of engineering
  • Skills to follow through with a job and the wherewithal to know when you need to ask for help

What we can offer

  • An environment that highlights learning
  • Matching your skills and interests to a problem
  • Tools to help you apply your skills and interests to targeted situations
  • A service truck with all the tools needed for doing 98% of jobs in the field
  • Pay that matches your skill level, from $20 per hour to $50 flat rate

Mechanic ($15+ per hour) | Technician ($20+ p/hr)

Common Pay Scales

(you can choose salary, flat rate, or contractor)

Apprentice

$15-20 per hour, 40 hours per week
($600-$800 weekly salary, $31,200 - $41,600 per year)

General skills
  • Use SAFE work practices and operate machinery, tools, and equipment
  • PMs (oil changes, inspections, paperwork)
  • Tires
  • Brakes
  • Light work (belts, filters, etc…)
Areas to explore
  • Certifications, experience, documented diagnostics
  • Principles

Journeyman

$20 per hour, 40 hours per week
($800 weekly salary, $41,600 per year)

General skills
  • PMs (oil changes, inspections, paperwork)
  • Tires
  • Brakes
  • Light engine work (spark plugs, water pumps, radiators)
Areas to explore
  • Welding
  • Electrical
  • Diagnostics

Specialists

$25 per hour, 40 hours per week
($1000 weekly salary, $52,000 per year)

General skills
  • All previous skills
  • Diagnostics
  • Internal engine (rockers, head gaskets, etc…
  • Electrical/ Programming
  • Understanding of vehicle systems (emissions, hydraulics, pneumatics, fluids, etc…)
  • Fabrication (parts, tools, or small projects)
Areas to explore
  • Technical Data specific to common powertrain platforms
  • Engineering diagrams
  • Fleet services

Technician

$30 per hour, 40 hours per week
($1200 weekly salary, $62,400 per year)

General skills
  • All previous skills
  • Management skills
  • Can bring in new customers/jobs
  • Can teach others a skill
  • Can master a single area (DEF, driveline, injectors, etc…)
  • Design, fabrication, installation, and execution of long term projects
Areas to explore
  • Improve the business of clients and Master Specialists

Master

$35+ per hour
($1400+ weekly salary, $72,000+ per year)

General skills
  • Takes ownership
  • Can drive change
  • Let's sit down and talk :)

Benefits


  • 2 weeks vacation paid per year
  • 5 personal days paid days per year
  • No need to purchase tools
  • Year end 401K matching
  • Health options

A typical day/week/month

Plan, Pack, Perform

Day
  • Pack the truck with the needed supplies for certain planned jobs
  • Start with the most difficult job, to allow for unknowns and recovery
  • Work through smaller jobs
  • Work through open jobs
For next day
Order parts, communicate needs, take notes
Week
  • Do weekly inspections
  • Do tires, brakes, PMs based on weekly inspections
  • Plan you week
  • Fill in time at shop working on larger jobs or organizing shop
For next week Communicate needs, order tools/parts, plan meetings, plan learning times
Month
  • Replace an engine, transmission, or similar large job
  • Clean shop
  • Mark calendar for upcoming large jobs
  • Learn something
  • Make something
  • Improve something
For next month Communicate needs, order tools/parts, plan meetings, plan learning areas

What we do

Services

Mobile Fleet Repair - Common platforms
  • Ford Engines: V-10 6.8, 7.3 gas, 7.3 Diesel, 6.0 Diesel,
  • Chevy Engines: LS [5.3, 6.0], 6.6 Duramax,
  • Diesel Engines: Cummins ISB[5.9, 24v, 6.7], ISC[8.3], ISX[15], internation 444, 466, 365, Cat c7, c15, Paccar, DD13, DD15, Volvo
  • Allison Transmission 500, 2200, 2400, 3000
  • Eaton Transmission
  • Tires (16R, 19.5, 22.5)
  • Brakes (caliper, drum, parking, electric)
Common places
  • Shop is located in Stanley in Northwest Charlotte
  • Clients in Concord by 85 North, NW Charlotte, Mathews, and west Charlotte
Other Services
  • Fabrication
  • Design
  • 26' Rental trucks
  • A custom built app to manage assets, vehicles, and scheduling between drivers, management, mechanics, and regulators

Interested?

Put these things together:

  • 1An email with
    • a short description about yourself (name and contact info [email, phone, etc…])
    • your availability to discuss the opportunity (please include several dates and times)
    • your resume (preferable but not required)
    • any certifications you would like to share (not required)

  • 2 Please include below three of your professional interests and professional goals. ( A clear description is preferred over a few words)

    Goals
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    Interests
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
  • 3Please be prepared to discuss your skills. You can plan ahead of time by filling out this form, to give us an idea of where your skills are, to best match you with jobs that come up, and where you will need training and assistance. Don’t spend too much time on this self-assessment. Just go with your intuition. (1 is a rating that you know very little about, and a 10 rating is that you can comfortably teach the subject to someone who wants to learn about it)
    SKILLS (1-10)
    • Gas Engines · · · · 6
    • Diesel Engines · · 4
    • Ford · · · · · · · · · · etc…
    • Chevy
    • Freightliner
    • International
    • Painting
    • Mechanical
    • Diagnostics
    • AFT
    • Electrical
    • Hydraulics
    • Pneumatics
    • HVAC
    • Engine Cooling
    • Steering
    • Suspension
    • AC
    • DC
    • Design
    • Fabrication
    • Welding
    • Transmissions
    • Differentials
    • Brakes
    • Tires
    • PM
    • Detailing

Please review this page to get a better understanding of what we are looking for. We respond positively to those that take time to better themselves over someone who just fills out forms.

Email the items (1, 2, 3) from the left to: Career@masterspecialists.com

Someone will contact you shortly, and set up a meeting within one of your availability slots to discuss the opportunities.


The next steps can occur in as little as a few days, and will involve:

  • Us contacting you to confirm a meeting over the phone
  • Setting up a second time to meet in person
  • Discussing a start date



Successful applicants tend to:

  • Provide multiple times to meet, as we are also busy
  • Manage their time well and operate and communicate professionally to help expedite the hiring processes
  • Know what they know, and are not ashamed or try to manipulate what they don't
  • Are willing to be mindful of other team members and processes
  • Want to learn and improve, and express that desire