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Career: Elevator Installers and Repairers
Job Description
Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.
Job Tasks
Importance %age |
Task Description |
100
|
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. |
96
|
Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors. |
96
|
Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings. |
95
|
Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards. |
94
|
Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment. |
94
|
Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts. |
90
|
Participate in additional training to keep skills up-to-date. |
89
|
Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time. |
89
|
Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed. |
88
|
Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring. |
87
|
Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly. |
82
|
Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment. |
76
|
Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure. |
76
|
Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions. |
74
|
Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor, then pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit. |
71
|
Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables. |
71
|
Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors. |
68
|
Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms. |
60
|
Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors. |
43
|
Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring. |
Work Activities
Importance %age |
Activity Description |
93
|
Handling and Moving Objects
|
87
|
Performing General Physical Activities
|
86
|
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
|
83
|
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
|
78
|
Controlling Machines and Processes
|
78
|
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
|
69
|
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
|
69
|
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
|
67
|
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
|
60
|
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
|
59
|
Thinking Creatively
|
58
|
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
|
57
|
Coaching and Developing Others
|
54
|
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
|
53
|
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
|
53
|
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
|
52
|
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
|
50
|
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
|
50
|
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
|
48
|
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
|
47
|
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
|
47
|
Getting Information
|
46
|
Scheduling Work and Activities
|
46
|
Interacting With Computers
|
46
|
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
|
45
|
Analyzing Data or Information
|
45
|
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
|
45
|
Training and Teaching Others
|
44
|
Developing Objectives and Strategies
|
44
|
Processing Information
|
42
|
Documenting/Recording Information
|
41
|
Selling or Influencing Others
|
39
|
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
|
37
|
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
|
37
|
Developing and Building Teams
|
36
|
Assisting and Caring for Others
|
36
|
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
|
32
|
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
|
24
|
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
|
23
|
Performing Administrative Activities
|
20
|
Staffing Organizational Units
|