Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

Other names for Elevator Installers and Repairers: Elevator Adjuster, Elevator Builder, Elevator Constructor, Elevator Erector, Elevator Examiner and Adjuster, Elevator Installation and Repair Maintenance Worker, Elevator Installer Apprentice, Elevator Mechanic, Elevator Mechanic Apprentice, Elevator Repair and Maintenance Technician, Elevator Repairer, Elevator Repairer Apprentice, Elevator Service Mechanic, Elevator Service Technician, Elevator Serviceman, Elevator Technician, Elevator Troubleshooter, Escalator Installer, Escalator Mechanic, Escalator Service Mechanic, Freight Elevator Erector, Hydraulic Elevator Constructor, Installer,

• Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
• Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.
• Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.
• Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.
• Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
• Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
• Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.
• Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
• Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.
• Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.
• Participate in additional training to keep skills up-to-date.
• Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
• Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
• Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
• Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
• Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
• Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor, then pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
• Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
• Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.
• Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.

• Adjustable wrenches
• Ammeters
• Voltage or current meters
• Tensiometers
• Capacitance meters
• Grinding machines
• Conduit benders
• Blow torches
• Diagonal cut pliers
• Power grinders
• Dollies
• Utility knives
• Graphic recorders
• Circuit tester
• Graphic recorders
• Grease guns
• Saws
• Hammers
• Hoists
• Pressure indicators
• Linemans pliers
• Ladders
• Levels
• Levels
• Logic state testers
• Longnose pliers
• Tape measures
• Megohmmeters
• Micrometers
• Voltage or current meters
• Multimeters
• Notebook computers
• Ohmmeters
• Open end wrenches
• Oscilloscopes
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Phasemeters
• Screwdrivers
• Plumb bobs
• Power drills
• Power saws
• Pressure indicators
• Microcontrollers
• Adjustable widemouth pliers
• Calibrated resistance measuring equipment
• Safety harnesses or belts
• Scaffolding
• Cleaning scrapers
• Screwdrivers
• Signal generators
• Slings
• Soldering irons or guns
• Pull spring balances
• Tablet computers
• Tachometers
• Thermographs
• Voltage or current meters
• Two way radios
• Vacuum pumps
• Voltage or current meters
• Welders
• Wire brushes
• Wire cutters
• Stripping tools
• Platform lift

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Facilities management software

Analytical or scientific software

Electronic mail software