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