How do they match: Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

  • Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

  • Repair Maintenance Worker
  • Elevator Repair and Maintenance Tech
  • Elevator Repair and Maintenance Technician
  • Elevator Repairer
  • Elevator Repairer Apprentice

  • Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

  • Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
  • Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
  • Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
  • Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
  • Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
  • Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
  • Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.
  • Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
  • Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.

  • Repair electrical equipment.
  • Locate equipment or materials in need of repair or replacement.