Description
Install, diagnose, repair, and calibrate electronic equipment, systems, and components in shop or field settings. Perform routine maintenance, testing, and adjustments using hand tools and electronic test instruments, and document work performed.
- • Prepare cost estimates for labor, parts, and materials.
- • Disassemble equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components and wiring using hand tools and soldering equipment.
- • Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as control panels, communication devices, sensors, or power supplies.
- • Calibrate and test equipment and locate circuit and component faults using multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and other test instruments.
- • Confer with customers, users, or engineers to determine the nature of problems and to explain findings and repairs.
- • Adjust equipment and instrumentation for optimal performance according to specifications, manuals, and schematics.
- • Instruct users on the safe and proper operation and basic maintenance of equipment.
- • Read and interpret electronic schematics, block diagrams, specifications, engineering drawings, and service manuals.
- • Maintain records of work orders, test results, calibrations, and maintenance activities.
- • Perform field service calls to install or repair units at customer or site locations, or return units to the shop for major repairs.
- • Mount, position, and wire electronic devices, harnesses, and enclosures, routing and securing cabling per standards.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
