Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- 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.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Calibrate testing instruments.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)
