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Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs, as necessary. | Inspect, operate, or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions. | Record type and cost of maintenance or repair work. | |||
Clean or lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, or other parts of machinery. | Plan and lay out repair work, using diagrams, drawings, blueprints, maintenance manuals, or schematic diagrams. | Adjust functional parts of devices or control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, or straightedges. | |||
Paint or repair roofs, windows, doors, floors, woodwork, plaster, drywall, or other parts of building structures. | Operate cutting torches or welding equipment to cut or join metal parts. | Align and balance new equipment after installation. | |||
Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements, using rules, calipers, micrometers, or other measuring instruments. | Set up and operate machine tools to repair or fabricate machine parts, jigs, fixtures, or tools. | Fabricate or repair counters, benches, partitions, or other wooden structures, such as sheds or outbuildings. | |||
Lay brick to repair or maintain buildings, walls, arches, or other structures. | Grind and reseat valves, using valve-grinding machines. | Assemble boilers at installation sites, using tools such as levels, plumb bobs, hammers, torches, or other hand tools. | |||
Install equipment to improve the energy or operational efficiency of residential or commercial buildings. | Perform routine maintenance on boilers, such as replacing burners or hoses, installing replacement parts, or reinforcing structural weaknesses to ensure optimal boiler efficiency. | Position, attach, or blow insulating materials to prevent energy losses from buildings, pipes, or other structures or objects. | |||
Test and treat water supply. | Dismantle machines, equipment, or devices to access and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, or power tools. | Perform routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions. | |||
Repair machines, equipment, or structures, using tools such as hammers, hoists, saws, drills, wrenches, or equipment such as precision measuring instruments or electrical or electronic testing devices. | Maintain or repair specialized equipment or machinery located in cafeterias, laundries, hospitals, stores, offices, or factories. | Order parts, supplies, or equipment from catalogs or suppliers. | |||
Perform general cleaning of buildings or properties. | Train or manage maintenance personnel or subcontractors. | Provide groundskeeping services, such as landscaping or snow removal. | |||
Estimate costs to repair machinery, equipment, or building structures. | Design new equipment to aid in the repair or maintenance of machines, mechanical equipment, or building structures. | ||||
Select Abilities | |||||
The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | The ability to see details at a distance. | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
The ability to see under low light conditions. | The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
Tools Used | |||||
Adjustable hand wrenches | Adjustable slip lock nut wrenches | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
Air compressors | Allen wrenches | Augers | |||
Ball peen hammers | Basin wrenches | Bearing pullers | |||
Biscuit joiners | Block and tackle equipment | Brazing equipment | |||
Bubble levels | Caulking guns | Center punches | |||
Chain pullers | Channel lock pliers | Chipping hammers | |||
Circle cutters | Circular saws | Claw hammers | |||
Closet augers | Combination squares | Comealongs | |||
Compression sleeve pullers | Concrete saws | Concrete trowels | |||
Conduit benders | Conduit cutters | Copper cutting machines | |||
Cordless power drills | Crowbars | Current testers | |||
Cutting torches | Dead blow hammers | Desktop computers | |||
Diagonal cutting pliers | Dial calipers | Dial indicators | |||
Digital micrometers | Direct tap machines | Dollies | |||
Drain augers | Drain cleaning cables | Drill presses | |||
Dump trucks | Dust and particulate respirators | Electric nail guns | |||
Electric planers | Electric sanders | Electric trimmers | |||
End pipe wrenches | Faucet handle pullers | Faucet stem and cartridge pullers | |||
Feeler gauges | Fish tape pullers | Flaring tools | |||
Flat blade screwdrivers | Fuse pullers | Gas welders | |||
Gasket cutters | Grease guns | Hacksaws | |||
Hammer drills | Hand drills | Hand grinders | |||
Hand jacks | Hand levels | Hand operated spray guns | |||
Hand saws | Hand spinners | Hand trucks | |||
Handheld computers | Heavy duty drain cleaning machines | Hex key sets | |||
Hex wrenches | High pressure water sprayers | Hoisting equipment | |||
Hole cutting tools | Hollow core socket wrenches | Hydraulic boom trucks | |||
Ice picks | Industrial brooms | Inspection mirrors | |||
Jackhammers | Jig saws | Laptop computers | |||
Lathes | Lawn mowers | Locking C-clamps | |||
Locking pliers | Manual ratchet threader sets | Measuring tapes | |||
Metal chisels | Mini hacksaws | Mini tubing cutters | |||
Mitre boxes | Needlenose pliers | Nut drivers | |||
Offset pipe wrenches | Offset socket wrenches | Ohmmeters | |||
Oil dispensing cans | Paint application brushes | Paint application rollers | |||
Paint spray guns | Personal computers | Phillips head screwdrivers | |||
Pin punches | Pipe cleaning equipment | Pipe cutters | |||
Pipe threaders | Pipe vises | Pipe welding vises | |||
Pipe wrenches | Plumb bobs | Plungers | |||
Polyvinyl chloride PVC cutters | Polyvinyl chloride PVC saws | Portable two way radios | |||
Portable welding machines | Power drain cleaners | Power drills | |||
Power lifts | Power pipe cutters | Power routers | |||
Power saws | Precision files | Pressurized water pigs | |||
Protective harnesses | Pry bars | Putty knives | |||
Radial arm saws | Ratchet wrenches | Ratcheting polyvinyl chloride PVC cutters | |||
Reciprocating saws | Rigging equipment | Right-angle drills | |||
Rotary hammers | Rubber mallets | Rulers | |||
Safety gloves | Safety goggles | Safety shoes | |||
Scaffolding | Screw extractor sets | Scribers | |||
Sectional drain cleaning machines | Security alarm systems | Sewage pumps | |||
Sewer rodding machines | Sewer tapes | Sharpening equipment | |||
Shears | Shielded arc welding tools | Side cutting pliers | |||
Sledgehammers | Slip joint pliers | Snow blowers | |||
Snow shovels | Snowplows | Socket wrench sets | |||
Soil pipe cutters | Soldering equipment | Spirit levels | |||
Step ladders | Straight pipe wrenches | Straight screwdrivers | |||
Straightedges | Stud locators | Table saws | |||
Tap sets | Tension gauges | Tile saws | |||
Tin snips | Toilet augers | Torque wrenches | |||
Tractors with backhoe attachments | Trenchers | Tub drain removers | |||
Tube benders | Tubing cutters | Two-wheel drive front end loaders | |||
Ultrasonic leak detectors | Universal nut wrenches | Utility knives | |||
Utility pumps | Valve grinding machines | Vise grip pliers | |||
Volt-ammeters | Volt-ohm meters VOM | Voltage testers | |||
Water pump pliers | Water samplers | Welders | |||
Welding clamps | Wide roll pipe cutters | Wire crimpers | |||
Wire cutting tools | Wire strippers | Workshop bench vises | |||
Workshop cranes |
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