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Assistant Diesel Mechanic $2,500 Sign On Bonus_ Great Pay & Benefits! Hiring Immediately!

WM
Bennington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Sept 2025
💰 $50,000/yr

About the role

Are you seeking a safer work environment as a mechanic? Is your family’s financial security important to you? Aspiring to advance in your mechanic career? Searching for a company that prioritizes its employees' well-being? If this speaks to you, then WM might be the place for your next career move.

Career progression, stability for your family, and a safe environment to work. That’s what you get as a Diesel Mechanic at WM – and more. 

The pay and benefits you’ll get as a Assistant Diesel Mechanic:

  • Starting salary $25/hr. depending on experience
  • $2/hour Night Shift Differential
  • $2,500 Sign On Bonus
  • Stable hours for your financial stability
  • Tool reimbursement worth $350/quarter ($1400/yearly)
  • Boot reimbursement worth an additional $250/year
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage including dental, vision and prescription coverage.
  • Paid tuition and scholarships for you and your dependents 
  • Company-matched 401(k)
  • Adoption assistance and parent support

These are just a few of our comprehensive benefits for a Assistant Diesel Mechanic Whether you are planning on building or expanding your family or looking for the next step in your career – WM is there, helping build the best and total you. 

The hours and location you’ll work in as a Diesel Mechanic with WM:

  • Monday – Friday every week
  • 2pm-10:30pm
  • 1 Saturday per month
  • We’re committed to offering you stable hours for the financial security and work life balance you need.
  • The normal setting for this job is a repair / maintenance shop at our landfill site in Bennington, NE.

Those are the key details on pay and schedule – now here’s more on what you’ll be doing as a Assistant Diesel Mechanic at WM. 

Each day you’ll fix the trucks and equipment that service over 20 million customers across the USA. As a Assistant  Diesel Mechanic you can take pride in watching a truck roll out of the shop, knowing your local community will be supported by your hard work. Our mechanics take their careers to the next level by working on equipment that requires a high level of skill – and determination. You’ll be using modern tools and procedures to deliver exceptional maintenance on both diesel equipment and, at some locations, on our growing fleet of CNG trucks.

Here’s more of what you’ll do:

  • Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.
  • Performs minor repairs and assigned preventive maintenance services.
  • Completes required paperwork utilizing fleet maintenance software program associated with repairing vehicles, documenting parts usage, and accounting for repair times.
  • Assists in the repair and adjustment of equipment.
  • Washes vehicles and equipment.
  • Conducts safety checks on vehicles.
  • Assists senior Mechanics in the completion of project work.
  • Assists with service calls for breakdowns.
  • Performs other maintenance related work as required.
  • Maintains a clean, safe work area in compliance with Corporate / OSHA Standards

What do you need to be considered for the role of Assistant Diesel Mechanic? 

  • No prior work experience required
  • Be over 18 years of age.
  • Legally eligible to work in the United States
  • Ability to perform physical requirements of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.
  • Successfully complete and pass pre-employment drug screen and physical.

The kind of people who thrive in our teams:

  • Team players who care about everyone in the shop
  • Happy working independently and as part of a team
  • Likes variety – every day provides a new challenge
  • Determined problem solvers.

Work environment and physical demands

Listed below are key points regarding physical demands, physical and occupational risks, and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. 

  • Required to exert physical effort that will include but is not limited to frequent lifting, pushing, pulling, crouching, and climbing; Constantly standing, walking, and grasping; Occasionally: sitting and balancing 
  • Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc.) often; 
  • Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements often; 
  • This job operates in both insi

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