Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of an establishment in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; boiler making; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.

Job Task

• Adjust functional parts of devices and control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, and straightedges.
• Align and balance new equipment after installation.
• Assemble, install and/or repair wiring, electrical and electronic components, pipe systems and plumbing, machinery, and equipment.
• Clean and lubricate shafts, bearings, gears, and other parts of machinery.
• Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals, and parts catalogs as necessary.
• Dismantle devices to gain access to and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools, and power tools.
• Inspect, operate, and test machinery and equipment in order to diagnose machine malfunctions.
• Lay brick to repair and maintain buildings, walls, arches and other structures.
• Maintain and repair specialized equipment and machinery found in cafeterias, laundries, hospitals, stores, offices, and factories.
• Paint and repair roofs, windows, doors, floors, woodwork, plaster, drywall, and other parts of building structures.
• Perform routine preventive maintenance to ensure that machines continue to run smoothly, building systems operate efficiently, and the physical condition of buildings does not deteriorate.
• Plan and lay out repair work using diagrams, drawings, blueprints, maintenance manuals, and schematic diagrams.
• Repair or replace defective equipment parts using hand tools and power tools, and reassemble equipment.
• Estimate repair costs.
• Fabricate and repair counters, benches, partitions, and other wooden structures such as sheds and outbuildings.
• Grind and reseat valves, using valve-grinding machines.
• Inspect drives, motors, and belts, check fluid levels, replace filters, and perform other maintenance actions, following checklists.
• Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements, using rules, calipers, micrometers, and other measuring instruments.
• Order parts, supplies, and equipment from catalogs and suppliers, or obtain them from storerooms.
• Record maintenance and repair work performed and the costs of the work.
• Operate cutting torches or welding equipment to cut or join metal parts.
• Set up and operate machine tools to repair or fabricate machine parts, jigs and fixtures, and tools.
• Use tools ranging from common hand and power tools, such as hammers, hoists, saws, drills, and wrenches, to precision measuring instruments and electrical and electronic testing devices.

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