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Job Description
Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-4021.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 76,860.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 36.00
- Currently, there are 22,240 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Elevator Installers and Repairers”.
Also Known As…
- Elevator Installers and Repairers
- Escalator Service Mechanic
- Elevator Troubleshooter
- Elevator Technician
- Elevator Serviceman
- Elevator Service Technician
- Elevator Service Mechanic
- Elevator Repair and Maintenance Technician
- Elevator Mechanic
- Elevator Constructor
- Elevator Adjuster
- Platform Power Technician
- Installer
- Hydraulic Elevator Constructor
- Freight Elevator Erector
- Escalator Mechanic
- Escalator Installer
- Elevator Worker
- Elevator Repairer Apprentice
- Elevator Repairer
- Elevator Mechanic Apprentice
- Elevator Installer Apprentice
- Elevator Installation and Repair Maintenance Worker
- Elevator Examiner and Adjuster
- Elevator Erector
- Elevator Builder
- Contract Serviceman
- Building Serviceman
- Accessibility Lift Technician
Tasks for “Elevator Technician”
- Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
- Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
- Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.
- Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
- Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
- Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
- Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.
- Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
- Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.
- Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.
- 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.
- Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
- Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.
- Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.
- Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.
- Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.
- Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
- Participate in additional training to keep skills up to date.
- Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
- Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
Related Technology & Tools
- Volt meters
- Disk grinders
- Safety harnesses
- Personal computers
- Shielded arc welding tools
- Plumb bobs
- Electricians' knives
- Flat metal files
- Grease guns
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Vacuum pumps
- Tachometers
- Diagonal cutting pliers
- Megohmmeters
- Screwdrivers
- Cutting torches
- Power drills
- Two way radios
- Laser levels
- Slings
- Pressure gauges
- Logic probes
- Wire cutters
- Hydraulic pressure gauges
- Hydraulic elevator cylinder repair kits
- Amp meters
- Test lamps
- Work platforms
- Adjustable wrenches
- Power saws
- Long nose pliers
- Cable tensionmeters
- Signal generators
- Resistance testers
- Tablet computers
- Insulated pliers
- Fuse testers
- Graphic data recording meters
- Welders
- Spring scales
- Levels
- Capacity testers
- Hoists
- Ladders
- Cleaning scrapers
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Measuring tapes
- Equipment dollies
- Wire strippers
- Commutator stones
- Millivoltmeters
- Digital oscilloscopes
- Multimeters
- Pump pliers
- Scaffolding
- Hacksaws
- Hammers
- Ohmmeters
- Laptop computers
- Phase rotation meters
- Temperature profile recorders
- Stick welders
- Open end wrenches
- Tungsten inert gas TIG welder
- Conduit benders
- Programmable logic controllers PLC
- Micrometers
- Event recorders
- Wire brushes
- Ammeters
- Soldering irons
- Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Troubleshooting software
- Microsoft Word
- WORLD Electronics Freedomware
- Elevator Controls INTERACT