Career Opportunity

Automotive Mechanic Supervisor I – Transit Division - San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (7249) – (141692)

Recruitment: RTF0141691-01122888

Published: November 09, 2023

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About:

This is a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Position Based Test conducted in accordance with CSC Rule 411A.

The SFMTA, a department of the City and County of San Francisco, oversees Muni (the historic Municipal Railway), the Department of Parking and Traffic, bicycling, walking and taxis. Over one million people get around San Francisco and rely on us to ensure safe and reliable travel.
Our Vision: Excellent transportation choices for San Francisco.
Our Mission: We connect San Francisco through a safe, equitable, and sustainable transportation system.

Application Opening: November 9, 2023

Application Deadline: May close at any time, but not before November 27, 2023

Compensation Range: $146,238 Yearly (For more information, click here)

Recruitment ID: PBT-7249-141692 / RTF0141691

Role description

Under direction, this position supervises, often through subordinate supervisors, a large group of skilled mechanical, craft, apprentice, and service workers engaged in the maintenance, repair, overhaul, and servicing of a wide variety of automotive (gasoline, electric, hybrid and natural gas powered) and/or heavy-duty diesel equipment. 

Essential functions of the class include:

• Supervising, often through subordinate supervisors, a large group of skilled mechanical, craft, apprentice, and service worker.  

• Supervising the maintenance, repair, overhaul, and servicing of automotive, including gasoline, electric, hybrid and natural gas powered and/or heavy duty diesel equipment, including engines, drive trains, fuel systems, electrical systems, electronic automotive circuits, digital display systems, cooling systems, brake systems (air and hydraulic), chassis, wheels, suspensions and other parts of vehicles; supervising preventive maintenance programs including smog certifying programs. 

• Troubleshooting and diagnosing vehicle problems.

• Overseeing and supervising the maintenance of vehicles, shop operating and personnel records.
• Completing various reports and forms such as reports on downtime, parts research and invoice processing.

• Utilizing and supervising the use of a variety of diagnostic equipment, hand tools, power tools and machinery.

• Reading, understanding and using shop manuals, PC web based software, diagrams and electrical schematics.

• Preparing cost estimates on work orders and accident repairs.

• Responding and making prompt decisions on incoming emergency calls.

• Requisitioning supplies, parts and materials necessary for the maintenance, repair, and servicing of vehicles, monitors warranty repairs and related paperwork and bills departments for work done.

• Planning, conducting and documenting safety meetings; understanding and training workers on how to understand the hazardous communications law, toxics handling and disposal, and the material safety data sheet (MSDS).

• Maintaining open communication with his or her immediate supervisors. 

• Performing other related duties as required. 

Nature of work:  Some positions require considerable physical effort to perform mechanical tasks on top of, under, inside and around equipment.  May require exposure to potentially hazardous working conditions and may require work in adverse weather or work conditions such as rain, cold, dirt and dust. Incumbents may be assigned to any shift including nights, weekends and holidays.

How to qualify

Experience:
Two (2) years of full-time verifiable experience supervising the maintenance and repair of automotive, transit or heavy-duty vehicles; AND

Three (3) years of full-time verifiable journey-level experience in the maintenance and repair of automotive, transit or heavy-duty vehicles.

License: 
Possession of a valid California Class C driver license at the time of appointment.

NOTE: Some positions allocated to this class may require the ability to obtain and maintain a California Class B driver license within six (6) months of appointment.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted. One year of full-time employment is equivalent to 2000 hours. (2000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week.)  Any overtime hours that you work above forty (40) hours per week are not included in the automatic calculation to determine full-time employment.  

Verification: 
Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.
All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application. 

Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

Selection Procedures: 
After application submission, candidates deemed qualified must complete all subsequent steps to advance in this selection process, which includes the following:

Exam Components: (General Exam Process Information)
Trade Supervisory Written Examination (Weight 60%) 
Candidates will be administered a written multiple-choice examination that includes test items that relate to various supervisory practices and procedures (e.g., directing subordinates, delegating tasks to subordinates, providing customer service, demonstrating appropriate supervisory/leadership behavior, addressing and/or evaluating subordinate issues, behavior and performance, etc.) as well as reading comprehension items. This is a standardized examination, and therefore, test questions and test answers are not available for public inspection or review.
The examination is administered via computer or in paper format. Qualified candidates will be notified of the particular format to be used in their test appointment notification.

The score you achieve on this examination shall be valid and "banked" for three years, starting from the date of the examination. This means that, during this three-year time period, you will not be required to take this test again should you apply and be found eligible for a future announcement for which this particular test is used. Please note this test is used for other supervisory classes therefore your test score may be applied to one or more of these classes if you choose to apply to future recruitments. If the test for this future announcement is held within one year of the date of this examination, your score will be automatically applied to that announcement. However, after one year, you have the option to either (a) apply your test score to the other announcement or (b) re-take the test. Re-testing is permitted no sooner than one year from the date of the examination and only in association with your eligibility for another announcement for which this test is used. Please note that, should you re-test, your re-test score would become your official score since it is the most recent.

For your reference, a Multiple-Choice Test Preparation Manual is available on the DHR website:  DHR Website   

Only those applicants who pass the Trade Supervisory Written Examination will receive a score on the Supplemental Questionnaire Training and Experience Evaluation.

Training and Experience Evaluation (Weight 40%) 
Candidates will be sent a Supplemental Questionnaire via email. The Supplemental Questionnaire is designed to measure knowledge, skills and/or abilities in job-related areas. It is important that the information provided on the supplemental application be accurate and complete. All statements made on the application materials are subject to verification.

A passing score must be achieved on both the Basic Supervisory Examination and the Training & Experience Evaluation in order to be placed/ranked on the eligible list.  The department may administer additional position-specific selection procedures to make final hiring decisions.

What else should I know?

Eligibility List/Score Report: 
A confidential eligible list of applicant names that have passed the civil service examination process will be created and used for certification purposes only. An examination score report will be established, so applicants can view the ranks, final scores and number of eligible candidates. Applicant information, including names of applicants on the eligible list, shall not be made public unless required by law. However, an eligible list shall be made available for public inspection, upon request, once the eligible list is exhausted or expired and referrals resolved. The eligible list/score report resulting from this civil service examination process is subject to change after adoption (e.g., as a result of appeals), as directed by the Director of Transportation or the Civil Service Commission.

The duration of the eligible list resulting from this examination process will be of 12 months and may be extended with the approval of the Director of Transportation.

To find Departments which use this classification, please see Position-Counts-by-Job-Codes-and-Department-FY-2022-23.pdf (sfdhr.org) 

Medical Examination/Drug Testing: Candidates who are being considered for appointment may be required to pass a medical examination. Candidates who cannot meet the medical requirement will be placed under waiver until this requirement is met. The medical examination will be administered only to those applicants who are being considered for appointment.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has determined that Class 7249 Automotive Mechanic Supervisor I is a “safety-sensitive” position, under regulations issued by the Federal Transit Administration (49 CFR Part 655). Federal law requires that all transit employees who perform safety-sensitive functions be subject to random, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, return-to-duty and follow-up drug and alcohol testing. All applicants for Safety-Sensitive positions shall undergo urine drug testing prior to employment and within 90 days prior to performing Safety-Sensitive functions for the first time. Receipt by the SFMTA of a negative test result is required prior to the employee being placed on the payroll. A positive, adulterated, negative dilute or substituted test will result in a decision not to hire, and the applicant’s name will be removed from the list of eligibles for Safety-Sensitive positions. The SFMTA will not consider hiring any person who tested positive, adulterated, substituted or refused to submit to testing for a minimum of two years following the positive test.

In addition, each applicant who has worked for a Department of Transportation (DOT) – regulated employer(s) within the last two years will be required to sign a consent form, prior to appointment, authorizing SFMTA to obtain information from their prior employers concerning their drug and alcohol test history. Each applicant will also be required to provide SFMTA with information regarding whether, during the last two years, the applicant tested positive or refused to test on any pre-employment drug or alcohol test administered by an employer to which the applicant applied for, but did not obtain, safety-sensitive transportation work covered by DOT drug and alcohol testing rules. SFMTA will not hire any applicant for a safety-sensitive position who fails to provide this information or fails to provide written consent for the release of information from prior employers.

Terms of Announcement: 
Applicants must be guided solely by the provisions of this announcement, including requirements, time periods and other particulars, except when superseded by federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations. [Note: The correction of clerical errors in an announcement may be posted on the Department of Human Resources website at Careers with Purpose | City and County of San Francisco (sf.gov)]. 

The terms of this announcement may be appealed under Civil Service Rule 411A.36.1. The standard for the review of such appeals is ‘abuse of discretion’ or ‘no rational basis’ for establishing the position description, the minimum qualifications and/or the certification rule. Appeals must include a written statement of the item(s) being contested and the specific reason(s) why the cited item(s) constitute(s) abuse of discretion by the Director of Transportation. Appeals must be submitted directly to the Executive Officer of the Civil Service Commission within five business days of the announcement issuance date.

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About The Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview 
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Seniority Credit in Promotional Exams
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• SFMTA Employee Wellness Program 
• Diversity Statement

How to Apply: 
Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process.

1. Visit https://careers.sf.gov/
2. Type “7249” into the "Search by class or keyword" field
3. Click the link to open the job ad
4. Select the “Apply Now" button and follow instructions on the screen 

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Exam Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding the Exam Process, please contact the exam analyst, Patty.Wong@sfmta.com. 

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The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.