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Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers: reported tasks and exploration worksheet
Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.
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This source lists 20 tasks, including 16 marked Core and 4 marked Supplemental. Labels and dates are retained below. Employers can combine or divide these responsibilities differently; explore the task itself before assuming it belongs in every version of the role.
Task source dates: 08/2023.
20 tasks shown
Core · Task 11571 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
Core · Task 11564 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
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.
Core · Task 11572 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.
Core · Task 11567 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.
Core · Task 11566 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.
Core · Task 11569 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
Core · Task 11570 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.
Core · Task 11576 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
Core · Task 11573 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.
Core · Task 11568 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
Core · Task 11565 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.
Core · Task 11574 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Participate in additional training to keep skills up to date.
Core · Task 11582 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.
Core · Task 11580 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
Core · Task 11575 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
Core · Task 11579 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
Supplemental · Task 11578 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
Supplemental · Task 11577 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
Supplemental · Task 11583 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.
Supplemental · Task 11581 · 08/2023 · Incumbent
Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
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