Mechanical Door Repairers

Install, service, or repair opening and closing mechanisms of automatic doors and hydraulic door closers. Includes garage door mechanics.

Job Task

• Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, and make simple adjustments to electric openers.
• Apply hardware to door sections, such as drilling holes to install locks.
• Assemble and fasten tracks to structures or bucks, using impact wrenches or welding equipment.
• Bore and cut holes in flooring as required for installation, using hand tools and power tools.
• Carry springs to tops of doors, using ladders or scaffolding, and attach springs to tracks in order to install spring systems.
• Clean door closer parts, using caustic soda, rotary brushes, and grinding wheels.
• Cover treadles with carpeting or other floor covering materials and test systems by operating treadles.
• Cut door stops and angle irons to fit openings.
• Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.
• Inspect job sites, assessing headroom, side room, and other conditions in order to determine appropriateness of door for a given location.
• Install dock seals, bumpers, and shelters.
• Install door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, and electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment.
• Lubricate door closer oil chambers and pack spindles with leather washers.
• Remove or disassemble defective automatic mechanical door closers, using hand tools.
• Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.
• Run low voltage wiring on ceiling surfaces, using insulated staples.
• Set doors into place or stack hardware sections into openings after rail or track installation.
• Set in and secure floor treadles for door activating mechanisms; then connect power packs and electrical panelboards to treadles.
• Study blueprints and schematic diagrams in order to determine appropriate methods of installing and repairing automated door openers.
• Wind large springs with upward motion of arm.
• Collect payment upon job completion.
• Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required.
• Fabricate replacements for worn or broken parts, using welders, lathes, drill presses, and shaping and milling machines.
• Operate lifts, winches, or chain falls in order to move heavy curtain doors.
• Order replacement springs, sections, and slats.

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