Chris Papaconstantinou

Experience

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  Ajax Pickering Transit

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  Fleet Technician

  • Rebuild gas or diesel engines.• Repair and adjust seats, doors, and windows, and install and repair accessories.• Specialize in repairing and maintaining parts of the engine, such as fuel injection systems.• Diagnose and repair vehicle heating and cooling systems.• Inspect, test, and listen to defective equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test instruments such as handheld computers, motor analyzers, chassis charts, and pressure gauges.• Test drive trucks and buses to diagnose malfunctions or to ensure that they are working properly. Kevesebb megjelenítése

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  Durham Region Transit

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  • Implementation of Bus Rapid Transit Project, Hiring, Purchasing, training. Maintenance team received the Regional Excellence award for innovation for this project.• Coordinated Maintenance functions and Managed a 16 million dollar building expansion.• Skilled in facility management• Set operations policies and standards, including determining safety procedures for the handling of hazardous waste.• Negotiate and authorize contracts with equipment and materials suppliers, and monitor contract fulfillment.• Collaborate with other managers or staff members to formulate and implement policies, procedures, goals, or objectives.• Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.• Direct procurement processes including equipment research and testing, vendor contracts, or requisitions approval. Kevesebb megjelenítése • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.• Investigate accidents or injuries and prepare reports of findings.• Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.• Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.• Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.• Participate in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures.• Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors.• Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems.• Investigate accidents or injuries and prepare reports of findings Kevesebb megjelenítése • Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel.• Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.• Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.• Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules. Kevesebb megjelenítése

  • Fleet And Facility Maintenance Manager Westney Division

    Apr 2013 - now

  • Fleet And Facility Maintenance Supervisor

    Feb 2008 - Apr 2013

  • Fleet Technician Lead Hand

    - Feb 2008
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  City of Pickering

  Feb 1992 - now

  Fleet Technician

  • Inspect brake systems, steering mechanisms, wheel bearings, and other important parts to ensure that they are in proper operating condition.• Adjust and reline brakes, align wheels, tighten bolts and screws, and reassemble equipment.• Raise trucks, buses, and heavy parts or equipment using hydraulic jacks or hoists.• Test drive trucks and buses to diagnose malfunctions or to ensure that they are working properly.• Inspect, test, and listen to defective equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test instruments such as handheld computers, motor analyzers, chassis charts, and pressure gauges.• Recondition and replace parts, pistons, bearings, gears, and valves.• Disassemble and overhaul internal combustion engines, pumps, generators, transmissions, clutches, and differential units.• Maintain or repair vehicles with alternative fuel systems, including biodiesel, hybrid, or compressed natural gas vehicles.• Demographics of fleet consisted of urban transit, constriction both on and off road vehicles, emergency vehicles, small engine and equipment, administration vehicles. Kevesebb megjelenítése

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  City of Pickering

  Apr 2024 - now

  Fleet Technician

  -PM servicing of Public Works, Parks, Fire, Administration vehicles.