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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment, such as cranes, bulldozers, graders, and conveyors, used in construction, logging, and surface mining. | Test mechanical products and equipment after repair or assembly to ensure proper performance and compliance with manufacturers' specifications. | |||
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Repair and replace damaged or worn parts. | ||||
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Operate and inspect machines or heavy equipment to diagnose defects. | ||||
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Diagnose faults or malfunctions to determine required repairs, using engine diagnostic equipment such as computerized test equipment and calibration devices. | ||||
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Dismantle and reassemble heavy equipment using hoists and hand tools. | ||||
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Clean, lubricate, and perform other routine maintenance work on equipment and vehicles. | ||||
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Examine parts for damage or excessive wear, using micrometers and gauges. | ||||
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Schedule maintenance for industrial machines and equipment, and keep equipment service records. | ||||
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Read and understand operating manuals, blueprints, and technical drawings. | ||||
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Overhaul and test machines or equipment to ensure operating efficiency. | ||||
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Assemble gear systems, and align frames and gears. | ||||
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Fit bearings to adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment. | ||||
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Weld or solder broken parts and structural members, using electric or gas welders and soldering tools. | ||||
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Clean parts by spraying them with grease solvent or immersing them in tanks of solvent. | ||||
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Adjust, maintain, and repair or replace subassemblies, such as transmissions and crawler heads, using hand tools, jacks, and cranes. | ||||
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Adjust and maintain industrial machinery, using control and regulating devices. | ||||
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Fabricate needed parts or items from sheet metal. | ||||
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Direct workers who are assembling or disassembling equipment or cleaning parts. | ||||
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Repair, rewire, and troubleshoot electrical systems. | ||||
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Research, order, and maintain parts inventory for services and repairs. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Equipment Selection | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Response Orientation | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Database software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Maintenance management software | Facilities management software | |||
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Recordkeeping software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Adjustable monkey wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Adjustable wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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Allen wrenches | Hex keys | |||
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Ammeters | Ammeters | |||
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Arc welders | Welders | |||
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Awls | Awls | |||
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Ball peen hammers | Hammers | |||
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Battery chargers | Battery chargers | |||
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Bolt cutters | Bolt cutters | |||
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Boring bars | Boring tools | |||
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Brake bleeder wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Brass drifts | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Brazing equipment | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Breaker bars | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Center punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Channel lock pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Circuit testers | Circuit tester | |||
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Clamp-on multimeters | Clamp On Multimeter | |||
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Cold chisels | Cold chisels | |||
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Combination wrenches | Combination wrenches | |||
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Cordless screwdrivers | Power screwguns | |||
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Crowfoot wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Cutting torches | Blow torches | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Diagonal cutting pliers | Diagonal cut pliers | |||
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Dial calipers | Calipers | |||
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Dial gauges | Gauges or inspection fixtures | |||
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Drill presses | Workshop presses | |||
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Dual action pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Dynamometers | Dynamometers | |||
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Electric welders | Welders | |||
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Electronic engine analyzers | Digital testers | |||
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Electronic screwdrivers | Power screwguns | |||
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End nippers | End cut pliers | |||
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Exhaust emission analyzers | Automotive exhaust emission analyzers | |||
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Feeler gauges | Feeler gauges | |||
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Files | Files | |||
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Flame cutting equipment | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Flare nut wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Gas welders | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Grease guns | Grease guns | |||
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Grinding machines | Power grinders | |||
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Groove joint/water pump pliers | Slip or groove joint pliers | |||
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Hacksaws | Saws | |||
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Hammers | Hammers | |||
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Hand held diagnostic computers | Portable data input terminals | |||
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Handheld battery testers | Battery testers | |||
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Hard hats | Hard hats | |||
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Hard-toed shoes | Safety boots | |||
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Hazardous material protective clothing | Hazardous material protective apparel | |||
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Heat guns | Heat guns | |||
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Hex key sets | Hex keys | |||
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Hoists | Hoists | |||
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Hose clamps | C clamps | |||
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Hose-clamp pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Hydraulic lifts | Lifts | |||
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Impact air wrenches | Pneumatic impact wrenches | |||
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Inspection mirrors | Magnifiers | |||
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Jack stands | Engine or vehicle stands | |||
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Jacks | Jacks | |||
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Lathes | Lathes | |||
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Leak detection equipment | Leak testing equipment | |||
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Leak detectors | Liquid leak detectors | |||
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Lineman's pliers | Linemans pliers | |||
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Locking C-clamp pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Long nose pliers | Longnose pliers | |||
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Magnetic pickup tools | Magnetic tools | |||
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Metal inert gas MIG welders | Metal inert gas MIG welding machinery | |||
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Micrometers | Micrometers | |||
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Multimeters | Multimeters | |||
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Needlenose pliers | Needlenose pliers | |||
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Nut drivers | Nut drivers | |||
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Offset box wrenches | Box end wrenches | |||
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Ohmmeters | Ohmmeters | |||
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Oil filter wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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On board computers | Microcontrollers | |||
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Oscilloscopes | Oscilloscopes | |||
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Oxyacetylene welding equipment | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Paint sprayers | Paint sprayers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Phillips head screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Pin punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Pipe wrenches | Pipe wrenches | |||
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Pitch gauges | Pitch measuring instruments | |||
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Plasma welding equipment | Plasma welding machinery | |||
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Plastic tip hammers | Hammers | |||
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Pneumatic ratchets | Pneumatic impact wrenches | |||
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Pneumatic wrenches | Pneumatic impact wrenches | |||
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Power drills | Power drills | |||
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Power grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Power sanders | Power sanders | |||
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Power saws | Power saws | |||
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Pressure gauges | Pressure indicators | |||
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Protective ear plugs | Ear plugs | |||
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Pry bars | Pry bars | |||
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Punch sets | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Putty knives | Putty knives | |||
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Ratcheting screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Ratchets | Ratchets | |||
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Razor knives | Razor knives | |||
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Respirators | Respirators | |||
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Riveting tools | Rivet tools | |||
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Rubber mallets | Mallets | |||
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Rulers | Rulers | |||
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Safety goggles | Goggles | |||
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Screw extractor sets | Screw extractors | |||
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Screw pitch gauges | Pitch measuring instruments | |||
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Screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Slip joint pliers | Slip or groove joint pliers | |||
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Slotted screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Snap ring pliers | Retaining ring pliers | |||
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Snips | Tinners snips | |||
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Socket wrench sets | Socket sets | |||
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Socket wrenches | Sockets | |||
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Solvent sprayers | Hand sprayers | |||
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Spark plug gapping tools | Feeler gauges | |||
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Starter punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Tachometers | Tachometers | |||
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Tape measures | Tape measures | |||
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Test lights | Circuit tester | |||
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Three-pin punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Tire pressure gauges | Pressure indicators | |||
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Torx screwdrivers | Torx keys | |||
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Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment | Tungsten inert gas TIG welding machinery | |||
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Two way radios | Two way radios | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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Vise grip pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Voltmeters | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Welding hoods | Welding masks | |||
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Wheel alignment gauges | Wheel alignment equipment | |||
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Wire brushes | Wire brushes | |||
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Wire crimpers | Wire lug crimping tool | |||
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Wire cutters | Wire cutters | |||
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Wire strippers | Stripping tools | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Brake Mechanic | |||
Bulldozer Mechanic | |||
Cat Mechanic | |||
Caterpillar Mechanic | |||
Clutch Mechanic | |||
Construction Equipment Mechanic | |||
Construction Equipment Overhauler | |||
Crane Mechanic | |||
Diesel Mechanic | |||
Diesel Technician | |||
Dinkey Engine Mechanic | |||
Donkey Mechanic | |||
Dragline Mechanic | |||
Dredge Mechanic | |||
Drop Hammer Mechanic | |||
Endless Track Vehicle Mechanic | |||
Equipment Mechanic | |||
Equipment Technician | |||
Field Mechanic | |||
Field Service Technician | |||
Field Technician | |||
Fleet Technician | |||
Fork Lift Mechanic | |||
Forklift Mechanic | |||
Forklift Technician | |||
Garage Construction Equipment Mechanic | |||
Heavy Duty Mechanic | |||
Heavy Equipment Field Mechanic | |||
Heavy Equipment Mechanic | |||
Heavy Equipment Technician | |||
Heavy Vehicle Technician | |||
Hoist Mechanic | |||
Hydraulic Auto Jack Mechanic | |||
Hydraulic Jack Mechanic | |||
Hydraulic Mechanic | |||
Hydro Mechanic | |||
Lift Truck Mechanic | |||
Link Trainer Mechanic | |||
Logging Equipment Mechanic | |||
Machine Maintenance | |||
Machine Overhauler | |||
Machine or Machinery Mechanic | |||
Maintenance Mechanic | |||
Master Mechanic | |||
Mechanic | |||
Mechanic Helper | |||
Mobile Equipment Mechanic | |||
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanic | |||
Power Shovel Mechanic | |||
Rigging Loft Mechanic | |||
Shop Mechanic | |||
Shop Technician | |||
Shovel Mechanic | |||
Ski Lift Mechanic | |||
Truck Mechanic Apprentice | |||
Trucksmith | |||
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