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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
Repair, test, adjust, or install electronic equipment, such as industrial controls, transmitters, and antennas.
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What do Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment do?
Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, such as checking, cleaning, and repairing equipment, to detect and prevent problems.
Examine work orders and converse with equipment operators to detect equipment problems and to ascertain whether mechanical or human errors contributed to the problems.
Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
Operate equipment to demonstrate proper use and to analyze malfunctions.
Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment and software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
Repair and adjust equipment, machines, and defective components, replacing worn parts such as gaskets and seals in watertight electrical equipment.
Calibrate testing instruments and installed or repaired equipment to prescribed specifications.
Advise management regarding customer satisfaction, product performance, and suggestions for product improvements.
Inspect components of industrial equipment for accurate assembly and installation and for defects such as loose connections and frayed wires.
Study blueprints, schematics, manuals, and other specifications to determine installation procedures.
Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, and tests.
Coordinate efforts with other workers involved in installing and maintaining equipment or components.
Maintain inventory of spare parts.
Consult with customers, supervisors, and engineers to plan layout of equipment and to resolve problems in system operation and maintenance.
Send defective units to the manufacturer or to a specialized repair shop for repair.
Install repaired equipment in various settings, such as industrial or military establishments.
Determine feasibility of using standardized equipment, and develop specifications for equipment required to perform additional functions.
Enter information into computer to copy program or to draw, modify, or store schematics, applying knowledge of software package used.
Sign overhaul documents for equipment replaced or repaired.
Develop or modify industrial electronic devices, circuits, and equipment according to available specifications.
Do you enjoy these?
Adjustable wrenches
Power blowers
Ammeters
Pneumatic sanding machines
Blocks or pulleys
Hydraulic truck cranes
Light bulb changer
High voltage cable detection
Winches
Power saws
Chart recorders
Cold chisels
Grounding hardware
Ratchets
Air compressors
Portable data input terminals
Conduit benders
Wire lug crimping tool
Blow torches
Desktop computers
Gauges or inspection fixtures
Clamp On Multimeter
Drill bits
Workshop presses
Power drills
Saws
Fiber optic fault locators
Feeler gauges
Fish tape
Forklifts
Electrical frequency meters
Signal generators
Fuse pullers
Gas generators
Power grinders
Calibrated resistance measuring equipment
Grounding hardware
Electrical resistance or conductance sensors
Circuit tester
Saws
Hammers
Hex keys
Voltage or current meters
Hoists
Hole saws
High voltage cable detection
Hydraulic truck cranes
Pipe bending tools
Hydrometers
Impact wrenches
Heat tracing equipment
Insulation testers
Pneumatic hammer
Jacks
Punches or nail sets or drifts
Ladders
Notebook computers
Articulating boom lift
Circuit tester
Lightmeters
Linemans pliers
Battery testers
Voltage or current meters
Luxmeters
Manlift or personnel lift
Megohmmeters
Metal inert gas MIG welding machinery
Micrometers
Multimeters
Needlenose pliers
Nut drivers
Ohmmeters
Oscilloscopes
Workshop cranes
Personal computers
Manlift or personnel lift
Phasemeters
Pipe bending tools
Pipe or tube cutters
Threading machines
Plotter printers
Pipe bending tools
Conduit benders
Power drills
Power screwguns
Laser printers
Microcontrollers
Microcontrollers
Pullers
Punches or nail sets or drifts
Rectifiers
Protective gloves
Anti static floor mats
Safety harnesses or belts
Safety harnesses or belts
Safety harnesses or belts
Pneumatic sanding machines
Power saws
Scaffolding
Scanners
Oscilloscopes
Punches or nail sets or drifts
Screwdrivers
Diagonal cut pliers
Frequency calibrator or simulator
Locking pliers
Socket sets
Soldering irons or guns
Specialty wrenches
Platform lift
Antistatic maintenance kits
Digital Signal Processor DSP
Tachometers
Welders
Tape measures
Threading taps
Microcontrollers
Grounding hardware
Terminations
Voltage or current meters
Torque wrenches
Touch pads
Two way radios
Utility knives
Calipers
Voltage or current meters
Wattmeters
Welding tools
Laboratory bridges
Winches
Stripping tools
Circuit tracers
Winches
Adjustable wrenches
Technology used
Office suite software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Word processing software
Spreadsheet software
Data base user interface and query software
Facilities management software
Computer aided design CAD software
Analytical or scientific software
Industrial control software
Internet browser software
Electronic mail software
