How do they match: Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

  • Elevator Worker
  • Elevator Installation Worker
  • Repair Maintenance Worker

  • Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
  • Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
  • Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
  • Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
  • Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
  • Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.

  • Review blueprints or specifications to determine work requirements.