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

• Elevator Constructor
• Elevator Examiner-and-Adjuster
• Elevator Repairer
• Elevator-Repairer Apprentice

• Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
• 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.
• 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.
• Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.
• Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
• 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.
• 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, then pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
• Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
• Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.
• Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.
• Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.
• Participate in additional training to keep skills up-to-date.
• Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.
• Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.

• analyze operation of malfunctioning electrical or electronic equipment
• assemble gear systems
• conduct performance testing
• diagnose mechanical problems in machinery or equipment
• distinguish colors
• fabricate, assemble, or disassemble manufactured products by hand
• inspect machinery or equipment to determine adjustments or repairs needed
• install electrical fixtures or components
• install industrial machinery or related heavy equipment
• install or replace meters, regulators, or related measuring or control devices
• install/connect electrical equipment to power circuit
• lubricate machinery, equipment, or parts
• maintain or repair industrial or related equipment/machinery
• measure, weigh, or count products or materials
• move or fit heavy objects
• perform hydraulic plumbing
• perform safety inspections in industrial, manufacturing or repair setting
• prepare reports
• read blueprints
• read schematics
• read technical drawings
• read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
• repair mechanical controls
• repair or adjust measuring or control devices
• repair or replace electrical wiring, circuits, fixtures, or equipment
• replace electronic components
• test electrical/electronic wiring, equipment, systems or fixtures
• test electronic or electrical circuit connections
• test mechanical products or equipment
• understand service or repair manuals
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use acetylene welding/cutting torch
• use electrical or electronic test devices or equipment
• use hand or power tools
• use pneumatic tools
• use precision measuring devices in mechanical repair work
• use voltmeter, ammeter, or ohmmeter