Description
Repair, maintain, or install computers, word processing systems, automated teller machines, and electronic office machines, such as duplicating and fax machines.
- • Converse with customers to determine details of equipment problems.
- • Reassemble machines after making repairs or replacing parts.
- • Travel to customers' stores or offices to service machines or to provide emergency repair service.
- • Reinstall software programs or adjust settings on existing software to fix machine malfunctions.
- • Advise customers concerning equipment operation, maintenance, or programming.
- • Test new systems to ensure that they are in working order.
- • Assemble machines according to specifications, using hand or power tools and measuring devices.
- • Operate machines to test functioning of parts or mechanisms.
- • Maintain records of equipment maintenance work or repairs.
- • Install and configure new equipment, including operating software or peripheral equipment.
- • Maintain parts inventories and order any additional parts needed for repairs.
- • Update existing equipment, performing tasks such as installing updated circuit boards or additional memory.
- • Align, adjust, or calibrate equipment according to specifications.
- • Test components or circuits of faulty equipment to locate defects, using oscilloscopes, signal generators, ammeters, voltmeters, or special diagnostic software programs.
- • Repair, adjust, or replace electrical or mechanical components or parts, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering or welding equipment.
- • Complete repair bills, shop records, time cards, or expense reports.
- • Disassemble machines to examine parts, such as wires, gears, or bearings for wear or defects, using hand or power tools and measuring devices.
- • Clean, oil, or adjust mechanical parts to maintain machines' operating efficiency and to prevent breakdowns.
- • Enter information into computers to copy programs from one electronic component to another or to draw, modify, or store schematics.
- • Read specifications, such as blueprints, charts, or schematics, to determine machine settings or adjustments.
- • Lay cable and hook up electrical connections between machines, power sources, and phone lines.
- • Analyze equipment performance records to assess equipment functioning.
- • Fill machines with toners, inks, or other duplicating fluids.
- • Train new repairers.
- • Calibrate testing instruments.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
