Helpers--Electricians

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Adjustable widemouth pliers
• Adjustable wrenches
• Air compressors
• Trenching machines (Air spades)
• Pneumatic hammer (Airhammers)
• Ammeters
• Stripping tools (Automatic wire strippers)
• Awls
• Backhoes
• Cable accessories (Bear claw wire threaders)
• Blocks or pulleys (Block and tackle equipment)
• Articulating boom lift (Bucket trucks)
• Wheel bulldozers (Bulldozers)
• Screwdrivers (Cabinet tip screwdrivers)
• Wire or cable cutters (Cable cutters)
• Protective gloves (Cable gripping gloves)
• Label making machines (Cable labeling machines)
• Cable accessories (Cable lacing needles)
• Cable reels
• Cable splicing kits (Cable splicing knives)
• Banders (Cable tie guns)
• Capacitance meters (Capacitance testers)
• Hole saws (Circle cutters)
• Circuit tracers (Circuit test meters)
• Tampers (Compaction tampers)
• Deburring equipment (Conduit deburring tools)
• Locking pliers (Conduit locknut and reaming pliers)
• Circuit tester (Continuity testers)
• Power drills (Cordless drills)
• Open end wrenches (Crescent wrenches)
• Clamp On Multimeter (Current clamps)
• Blow torches (Cutting torches)
• Desktop computers
• Diagonal cut pliers (Diagonal cutting pliers)
• Multimeters (Digital multimeters)
• Offset socket wrenches (Double-end can socket wrenches)
• Workshop presses (Drill presses)
• Dump trucks
• Impact wrenches (Electric impact drivers)
• Manlift or personnel lift (Electric manlifts)
• Utility knives (Electricians' knives)
• Wire cutters (Electricians' snips)
• Track excavators (Excavators)
• Light bulb changer (Extension lamp extractors)
• Retaining ring pliers (External snap ring pliers)
• Fish tape (Fish tape pullers)
• Fuse pullers
• Gas detectors (Gas leak detection devices)
• Gas generators (Generators)
• GFI circuit testers (Ground fault circuit interrupter GFCI testers)
• Circuit tester (Growlers)
• Saws (Hacksaws)
• Hammers
• Wire lug crimping tool (Hand operated indentors)
• Hand trucks or accessories (Handtrucks)
• Heat guns
• Wire lug crimping tool (Heavy duty crimping tools)
• Hex keys (Hex key sets)
• Hoists (Hoist trucks)
• Hoists
• Boring tools (Horizontal boring tools)
• Conduit benders (Hydraulic conduit benders)
• Calibrated inductance coils or boxes (Inductance testers)
• Thermographs (Infrared scanners)
• Bolt cutters (Insulated bolt cutters)
• Wire or cable cutters (Insulated cable cutters)
• Utility knives (Insulated knives)
• Nut drivers (Insulated nutdrivers)
• Linemans pliers (Insulated pliers)
• Screwdrivers (Insulated screwdrivers)
• Socket sets (Insulated socket sets)
• Specialty wrenches (Insulated wrenches)
• Retaining ring pliers (Internal snap ring pliers)
• Pneumatic hammer (Jackhammers)
• Ladders
• Levels
• Magnetic tools (Lighted magnet pickups)
• Hoists (Line trucks)
• Linemans pliers (Lineman's pliers)
• Longnose pliers (Long nose pliers)
• Circuit tester (Loop PSC testers)
• Metal detectors (Magnetic locators)
• Conduit benders (Manual conduit benders)
• Megohmmeters
• Metal detectors (Metal locators)
• Multimeters
• Nibblers (Nibbler cutting tools)
• Voltage or current meters (Non-contact voltage sensors)
• Notebook computers
• Nut drivers
• Ohmmeters
• Personal computers
• Phasemeters (Phase rotation meters)
• Screwdrivers (Phillips head screwdrivers)
• Picks
• Threading dies (Pipe threaders)
• Plumb bobs
• Compactors (Pneumatic compacting equipment)
• Pipe or tube cutters (Polyvinyl chloride PVC cutters)
• Post hole digger (Post drivers)
• Wire or cable cutters (Power cable cutters)
• Conduit benders (Power conduit benders)
• Power drills
• Punches or nail sets or drifts (Punchdown tools)
• Stamping dies or punches (Punches)
• Wire or cable cutters (Ratcheting cable cutters)
• Circuit tester (Residual current device RCD testers)
• Calibrated resistance measuring equipment (Resistance bridges)
• Respirators
• Saws
• Scaffolding
• Screwdrivers (Screw-holding screwdrivers)
• Screwdrivers
• Shears
• End cut pliers (Side cutting pliers)
• Soldering irons or guns (Soldering irons)
• Strap wrenches
• Tape measures
• Reamers (Tapered reamers)
• Magnetic tools (Telescoping lighted pickups)
• Threading dies
• Threading taps
• Tongue and groove pliers
• Impedance meters (Transfer impedance meters)
• Trenching machines (Trenchers)
• Two way radios
• Utility knives
• Voltage or current meters (Voltage meters)
• Welders
• Welding masks (Welding hoods)
• Wire lug crimping tool (Wire crimpers)
• Wire cutters
• Fish tape (Wire pullers)
• Stripping tools (Wire stripping pliers)
• Spiral wrapping (Wire wrap guns)

Technologies Include:

• Data base user interface and query software

• Recordkeeping software

• Word processing software

• Report generation software

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)