How do they match: Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

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

  • Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.
  • 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.
  • Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
  • Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
  • 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.
  • Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
  • Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.

  • Assemble products or production equipment.
  • Cut metal components for installation.
  • Inspect electrical or electronic systems for defects.
  • Install electrical components, equipment, or systems.
  • Install metal structural components.
  • Repair electrical equipment.
  • Test electrical equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning.
  • Weld metal components.