About the role
- Locate equipment or materials in need of repair or replacement
- Inspect industrial or commercial equipment to ensure proper operation
- Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time
- Inspect industrial or commercial equipment to ensure proper operation
- Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors
- Install electrical components, equipment, or systems
- Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment
- Review blueprints or specifications to determine work requirements
- Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings
- Maintain mechanical equipment
- Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly