Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians

Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers. May specialize in maintaining gas, electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or chassis/towing systems as well as repairing generators, appliances, and interior components.

Job Task

• Refinishes wood surfaces on cabinets, doors, moldings, and floors, using power sander, putty, spray equipment, brush, paints, or varnishes.
• Opens and closes doors, windows, and drawers to test their operation and trims edges to fit, using jack- plane or drawknife.
• Lists parts needed, estimates costs, and plans work procedure, using parts list, technical manuals, and diagrams.
• Connects water hose to inlet pipe of plumbing system and tests operation of toilets and sinks.
• Repairs leaks with caulking compound or replaces pipes, using pipe wrench.
• Inspects, examines, and tests operation of parts or systems to be repaired and to verify completeness of work performed.
• Locates and repairs frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeter, soldering iron, tape, and hand tools.
• Repairs plumbing and propane gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe.
• Removes damaged exterior panels, repairs and replaces structural frame members, and seals leaks, using hand tools.
• Connects electrical system to outside power source and activates switches to test operation of appliances and light fixtures.
• Confers with customer or reads work order to determine nature and extent of damage to unit.
• Seals open side of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammer.
• Resets hardware, using chisel, mallet, and screwdriver.

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