Description
Repair, test, adjust, or install electronic equipment, such as industrial controls, transmitters, and antennas.
- • Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, such as checking, cleaning, or repairing equipment, to detect and prevent problems.
- • Examine work orders and converse with equipment operators to detect equipment problems and to ascertain whether mechanical or human errors contributed to the problems.
- • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
- • Operate equipment to demonstrate proper use or to analyze malfunctions.
- • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
- • Repair or adjust equipment, machines, or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment.
- • Calibrate testing instruments and installed or repaired equipment to prescribed specifications.
- • Advise management regarding customer satisfaction, product performance, or suggestions for product improvements.
- • Inspect components of industrial equipment for accurate assembly and installation or for defects, such as loose connections or frayed wires.
- • Study blueprints, schematics, manuals, or other specifications to determine installation procedures.
- • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
- • Coordinate efforts with other workers involved in installing or maintaining equipment or components.
- • Maintain inventory of spare parts.
- • Consult with customers, supervisors, or engineers to plan layout of equipment or to resolve problems in system operation or maintenance.
- • Send defective units to the manufacturer or to a specialized repair shop for repair.
- • Install repaired equipment in various settings, such as industrial or military establishments.
- • Determine feasibility of using standardized equipment or develop specifications for equipment required to perform additional functions.
- • Enter information into computer to copy program or to draw, modify, or store schematics, applying knowledge of software package used.
- • Sign overhaul documents for equipment replaced or repaired.
- • Develop or modify industrial electronic devices, circuits, or equipment, according to available specifications.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
