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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Install, repair, and maintain mechanical regulating and controlling devices, such as electric meters, gas regulators, thermostats, safety and flow valves, and other mechanical governors. | Turn meters on or off to establish or close service. | |||
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Turn valves to allow measured amounts of air or gas to pass through meters at specified flow rates. | ||||
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Report hazardous field situations and damaged or missing meters. | ||||
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Record meter readings and installation data on meter cards, work orders, or field service orders, or enter data into hand-held computers. | ||||
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Connect regulators to test stands, and turn screw adjustments until gauges indicate that inlet and outlet pressures meet specifications. | ||||
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Disassemble and repair mechanical control devices or valves, such as regulators, thermostats, or hydrants, using power tools, hand tools, and cutting torches. | ||||
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Record maintenance information, including test results, material usage, and repairs made. | ||||
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Disconnect and/or remove defective or unauthorized meters, using hand tools. | ||||
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Lubricate wearing surfaces of mechanical parts, using oils or other lubricants. | ||||
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Test valves and regulators for leaks and accurate temperature and pressure settings, using precision testing equipment. | ||||
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Install regulators and related equipment such as gas meters, odorization units, and gas pressure telemetering equipment. | ||||
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Shut off service and notify repair crews when major repairs are required, such as the replacement of underground pipes or wiring. | ||||
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Examine valves or mechanical control device parts for defects, dents, or loose attachments, and mark malfunctioning areas of defective units. | ||||
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Attach air hoses to meter inlets; then plug outlets and observe gauges for pressure losses in order to test internal seams for leaks. | ||||
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Dismantle meters, and replace or adjust defective parts such as cases, shafts, gears, disks, and recording mechanisms, using soldering irons and hand tools. | ||||
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Advise customers on proper installation of valves or regulators and related equipment. | ||||
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Connect hoses from provers to meter inlets and outlets, and raise prover bells until prover gauges register zero. | ||||
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Make adjustments to meter components, such as setscrews or timing mechanisms, so that they conform to specifications. | ||||
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Replace defective parts, such as bellows, range springs, and toggle switches, and reassemble units according to blueprints, using cam presses and hand tools. | ||||
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Investigate instances of illegal tapping into service lines. | ||||
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Install, inspect and test electric meters, relays, and power sources to detect causes of malfunctions and inaccuracies, using hand tools and testing equipment. | ||||
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Trace and tag meters or house lines. | ||||
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Mount and install meters and other electric equipment such as time clocks, transformers, and circuit breakers, using electricians' hand tools. | ||||
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Vary air pressure flowing into regulators and turn handles to assess functioning of valves and pistons. | ||||
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Attach pressurized meters to fixtures which submerge them in water, and observe meters for leaks. | ||||
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Measure tolerances of assembled and salvageable parts for conformance to standards or specifications, using gauges, micrometers, and calipers. | ||||
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Repair leaks in valve seats or bellows of automotive heater thermostats, using soft solder, flux, and acetylene torches. | ||||
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Clean internal compartments and moving parts, using rags and cleaning compounds. | ||||
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Repair electric meters and components, such as transformers and relays, and replace metering devices, dial glasses, and faulty or incorrect wiring, using hand tools. | ||||
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Recondition displacement type gas meters and governors, fabricating, machining, and/or modifying parts needed for repairs. | ||||
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Cut seats to receive new orifices, tap inspection ports, and perform other repairs in order to salvage usable materials, using hand tools and machine tools. | ||||
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Reassemble repaired equipment, and solder top, front, and back case panels in place, using soldering guns, power tools, and hand tools. | ||||
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Calibrate thermostats for specified temperature or pressure settings. | ||||
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Collect money due on delinquent accounts. | ||||
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Recommend and write up specifications for changes in hardware, such as house wiring. | ||||
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Dip valves and regulators in molten lead to prevent leakage, and paint valves, fittings, and other devices, using spray guns. | ||||
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Splice and connect cables from meters or current transformers to pull boxes or switchboards, using hand tools. | ||||
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Clean plant growth, scale, paint, soil, and/or rust from meter housings, using wire brushes, scrapers, buffers, sandblasters, and/or cleaning compounds. | ||||
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Clamp regulator units into vises on stages above water tanks, and attach compressed air hoses to intake ports. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Mechanical Control and Valve Installers and Repairers
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
- Knowledges
- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
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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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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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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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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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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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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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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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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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Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. | |||
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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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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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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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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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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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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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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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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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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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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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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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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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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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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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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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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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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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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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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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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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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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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Data entry software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Emerson FIRSTVUE Value Sizing | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Maintenance record software | Project management software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Adjustable wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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Ammeters | Ammeters | |||
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Bench vises | Bench vises | |||
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Bucket trucks | Articulating boom lift | |||
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Burden testers | Circuit tester | |||
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Cable cutters | Wire or cable cutters | |||
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Circuit testers | Circuit tester | |||
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Clamp-on meters | Clamp On Multimeter | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Crescent wrenches | Open end wrenches | |||
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Cutting torches | Blow torches | |||
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Dataloggers | Portable data input terminals | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Diagonal cutting pliers | Diagonal cut pliers | |||
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Dies | Taps or dies | |||
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Electrician's pliers | Linemans pliers | |||
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Files | Files | |||
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Fish tapes | Fish tape | |||
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Flow meters | Flowmeters | |||
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Flow recorders | Flowmeters | |||
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Forklifts | Forklifts | |||
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Grease guns | Grease guns | |||
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Grinding tools | Power grinders | |||
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Groove-joint pliers | Slip or groove joint pliers | |||
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Hacksaws | Saws | |||
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Hand saws | Saws | |||
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Handheld computers | Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers | |||
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Handheld transmitters | Radio frequency transmitters or receivers | |||
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Hydraulic pumps | Hydraulic pumps | |||
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Hydraulic truck-mounted cranes | Hydraulic truck cranes | |||
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Hydraulic wrenches | Impact wrenches | |||
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Infrared cameras | Infrared imagers | |||
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Insulated adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Insulated screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Insulated wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Keyhole saws | Saws | |||
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Ladders | Ladders | |||
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Laptop computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Layout squares | Squares | |||
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Locking pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Longnose pliers | Longnose pliers | |||
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Measurement calipers | Calipers | |||
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Measuring tapes | Tape measures | |||
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Micrometers | Micrometers | |||
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Mobile data terminals | Notebook computers | |||
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Multimeters | Multimeters | |||
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Nut drivers | Nut drivers | |||
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Overhead cranes | Track cranes | |||
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Paint spray booths | Spray booths | |||
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Paint spray guns | Paint sprayers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Phasemeters | Phasemeters | |||
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Phillips head screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Pipe cutters | Pipe or tube cutters | |||
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Pop rivet guns | Rivet tools | |||
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Power drills | Power drills | |||
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Power saws | Power saws | |||
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Power screwdrivers | Power screwguns | |||
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Power system analyzers | Frequency calibrator or simulator | |||
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Power wrenches | Impact wrenches | |||
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Precision levels | Levels | |||
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Pressure gauges | Pressure indicators | |||
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Pressure recorders | Pressure indicators | |||
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Punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Quick wrenches | Pipe wrenches | |||
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Rasps | Rasps | |||
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Robertson screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Rubber gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Sandblasters | Pneumatic sanding machines | |||
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Scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Scrapers | Razor knives | |||
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Side cutting pliers | End cut pliers | |||
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Slip joint pliers | Slip or groove joint pliers | |||
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Soldering irons | Soldering irons or guns | |||
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Steel chisels | Cold chisels | |||
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Straight screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Taps | Taps or dies | |||
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Test lamps | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Tongs | Tongs | |||
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Two way radios | Two way radios | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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Voltmeters | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Watt-hour test meters | Wattmeters | |||
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Welding equipment | Welding tools | |||
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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 | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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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-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Air Valve Mechanic | |||
Air Valve Repairer | |||
Control Technician | |||
Control Valve Mechanic | |||
Control Valve Technician | |||
Electric Meter Installer | |||
Electric Meter Repairer | |||
Electric Meter Repairer Apprentice | |||
Electric Meter Setter | |||
Electric Meter Technician | |||
Electrician | |||
Electromechanical Technician | |||
Fare Register Repairer | |||
Field Mechanical Meter Tester | |||
Field Service Technician | |||
Fire Extinguisher Repairer | |||
Flowmeter Test and Certification Mechanic | |||
Gas Measurement Specialist | |||
Gas Meter Installer | |||
Gas Meter Mechanic | |||
Gas Meter Prover | |||
Gas Pit Worker | |||
Gas Regulator Repairer | |||
Gas Technician | |||
Gas Utility Worker | |||
Industrial Gas Servicer | |||
Inside Meter Tester | |||
Instrument Technician | |||
Instrument and Controls Technician | |||
Instrument and Electrical Technician (I & E Technician) | |||
Instrument and Valve Technician | |||
Instrument, Control and Electrical Technician (ICE Technician) | |||
Instrumentation Technician | |||
Lubrication Equipment Servicer | |||
Machinist | |||
Maintenance Technician | |||
Measurement Controls Specialist | |||
Measurement Technician | |||
Mechanic | |||
Meter Installer | |||
Meter Mechanic | |||
Meter Repairer | |||
Meter Technician | |||
Meterman | |||
Motor Power Connector | |||
Parking Meter Installer | |||
Parking Meter Mechanic | |||
Parking Meter Servicer | |||
Pneumatic Tester Mechanic | |||
Pneumatic Tool Repairer | |||
Pneumatic Tube Repairer | |||
Pyrometer Mechanic | |||
Regulator Mechanic | |||
Regulator Repair Person | |||
Residential Gas Heat Technician | |||
Rocket Engine Component Mechanic | |||
Safety Relief Valve Technician | |||
Salvager | |||
Scale Installer | |||
Service Technician | |||
Shut Off Worker | |||
Spray Gun Repairer | |||
Taximeter Repairer | |||
Thermostat Mechanic | |||
Thermostat Repairer | |||
Valve Grinder | |||
Valve Mechanic | |||
Valve Technician | |||
Valve and Regulator Repairer | |||
Water Meter Installer | |||
Water Meter Mechanic | |||
Water Regulator and Valve Mechanic | |||
Water Regulator and Valve Repairer | |||
Welder | |||
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