About This Position
The Public Works Department strives to improve the quality of life in Phoenix through efficient delivery of outstanding solid waste, fleet, facilities, and energy management services.
The Public Works Department Fleet Services Division is the backbone of City operations, managing a diverse fleet of more than 8,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment that keep our community moving. From acquisition and maintenance to fueling, sustainability initiatives, telematics, and lifecycle planning, our mission is to ensure every department has the reliable, efficient, and cost-effective assets needed to deliver essential City services.
The Fleet Services Division is seeking an exceptional Equipment Fabrication Foreman who is a strategic thinker and a proactive problem-solver, experienced in managing a high-volume shop, ready to support a high-performing team, and elevate service excellence across the City. We are looking for a dynamic professional who thrives on collaboration but also brings confidence, technical expertise, organization, and initiative.
In this critical role, the Equipment Fabrication Foreman supports that mission by coordinating the new vehicle preparation/upfit, modifications, collision repair, and surplus of vehicles and equipment across the City's fleet.
Responsibilities Include
- Plan, prioritize, assign, and supervise the work of employees engaged in the fabrication, modification, and collision repair of automotive and other fleet equipment.
- Lead and instruct employees in the preparation of new vehicles for service, vehicles for auction, collision repairs, and the fabrication and modification of equipment for vehicles (toolboxes, racks, rails, safety screens, hitches, lift gates, and other accessories).
- Maintain frequent contact with outside vendors and other City departments, and follow up on customer service issues or requests.
- Demonstrate superior seamless customer service, integrity, and a commitment to innovation, efficiency, and fiscally responsible activity.
- Demonstrate exemplary customer-service skills.
- Accurately input and retrieve data in M5 (a computerized equipment management information system), requisition materials and supplies, and inspect work in progress and upon completion to ensure it meets required standards.
- Surplus vehicles and equipment that have been flagged for disposal due to the end of useful life, mechanical failure, and total loss.
IDEAL CANDIDATE
The Ideal Candidate Has Knowledge Of
- Methods, materials, equipment and operation of general automotive, auto body and mechanical repair shops.
- Motorized equipment operation and testing (examples: dozers, graders and heavy duty trucks).
- General techniques, materials and practices of trades which are related to new vehicle make-ready.
- Hydraulic and automotive electrical systems.
- Skilled in the principals and practices of welding, repair, modification and fabrication of automotive or fleet equipment.
Ability To
- Observe or monitor objects to determine compliance with prescribed operating or safety standards.
- Work cooperatively with other City employees and the public.
- Produce written documents with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.
- In addition to being proficient with computers and applicable software.
SALARY
Pay Range: $34.08 to $50.35 per hour.
Hiring Range: $34.08 to $45.67 per hour.
Pay Range Explanation
- Pay range is the entire compensation range for the position classification.
- Hiring range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.
- Promotions occur when the last two digits of the pay grade increase.
- Demotions occur when the last two digits of the pay grade decrease.
- Lateral transfers occur when there is no change to the last two digits of the pay grade.
- When there is a change in the first digit of the pay grade, there may also be a change to your classification or unit.
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Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package is offered which includes:
- Traditional pension with employer and employee contributions, click here for more details: Pension Information.
- 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions.
- Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans.
- Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan.
- Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually.
- Dental, vision, and life insurance options.
- Employer paid long-term disability.
- Free Bus/light rail pass.
- Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year.
- Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days.
- Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period.
- Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi.
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Minimum Qualifications
- Two years of skilled experience in automotive fleet repair, including collision repair.
- AND one year of experience as a skilled welder.
- Possession of a current Class A CDL license.
- All finalists for positions are subject to a criminal background check applicable to the department or position.
- For information regarding pre-screening and driving positions, click here.
- The City job description can be found here.
Work And Environmental Conditions Requirements
- Ability to work at heights greater than ten feet, lift arms above shoulder level to work on the underside of vehicles, work in small, cramped areas, and climb ladders or steps to reach objects.
Preferred Qualifications
The minimum qualifications listed above, plus:
Experience With
- Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Prioritizing/ organizing vehicle services/ workflows.
- M5/Computerized Equipment Management System (CMMS) or similar software.
- Ensuring quality control of outside vendor modifications to vehicles and equipment.
- Soliciting estimates from outside vendors for fleet equipment and vehicle modification or collision repairs.
- Delivering clear updates, resolving issues collaboratively, and maintaining excellent internal customer service.
- Supervising or leading a team in a vehicle and/or equipment fabrication and modification, collision repair, or automotive repair environment.
- Prioritizing services to ensure the efficient and timely issue of new vehicles and equipment to City departments and/or customers.
RECRUITMENT DATES
Recruitment closes September 24, 2026. All materials must be received by 11:59 p.m. on this date.
This is a position-based recruitment and will not result in any ongoing eligibility list. This recruitment and any selection processes resulting from this recruitment may be used to fill other related vacancies within the organization now or in the near future.
How To Apply
Apply online by completing the required information and attaching, as one document, your cover letter and resume. Please include your experience as it relates to the qualifications stated above. Only the highest qualified may be posted to the eligible to hire list. The results of the resume screening process will be sent to your primary email address.
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REFERENCE
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