According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly. | 96% |
| 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. | 91% |
| Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring. | 90% |
| Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards. | 90% |
| Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors. | 90% |
| Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment. | 89% |
| Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms. | 89% |
| Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings. | 88% |
| Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment. | 88% |
| Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables. | 88% |
| Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed. | 87% |
| Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors. | 87% |
| Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time. | 86% |
| Participate in additional training to keep skills up to date. | 85% |
| Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors. | 83% |
| Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit. | 83% |
| Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring. | 82% |
| Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts. | 78% |
| Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions. | 75% |
| Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure. | 75% |
