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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Repair and replace tires. | Identify and inflate tires correctly for the size and ply. | |||
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Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels. | ||||
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Raise vehicles using hydraulic jacks. | ||||
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Remount wheels onto vehicles. | ||||
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Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles. | ||||
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Unbolt wheels from vehicles and remove them, using lug wrenches and other hand and power tools. | ||||
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Reassemble tires onto wheels. | ||||
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Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects. | ||||
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Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels. | ||||
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Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools. | ||||
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Inspect tire casings for defects, such as holes and tears. | ||||
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Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools. | ||||
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Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement. | ||||
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Assist mechanics and perform other duties as directed. | ||||
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Separate tubed tires from wheels, using rubber mallets and metal bars or mechanical tire changers. | ||||
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Patch tubes with adhesive rubber patches or seal rubber patches to tubes, using hot vulcanizing plates. | ||||
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Inflate inner tubes and immerse them in water to locate leaks. | ||||
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Clean sides of whitewall tires. | ||||
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Apply rubber cement to buffed tire casings prior to vulcanization process. | ||||
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Drive automobile or service trucks to industrial sites to provide services and respond to emergency calls. | ||||
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Prepare rims and wheel drums for reassembly by scraping, grinding, or sandblasting. | ||||
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Order replacements for tires and tubes. | ||||
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Roll new rubber treads, known as camelbacks, over tire casings, and mold the semi-raw rubber treads onto the buffed casings. | ||||
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Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers. | ||||
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Place casing-camelback assemblies in tire molds for the vulcanization process and exert pressure on the camelbacks to ensure good adhesion. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Tire Repairers and Changers
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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- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
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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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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 | |||
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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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. | |||
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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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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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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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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. | |||
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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 | |||
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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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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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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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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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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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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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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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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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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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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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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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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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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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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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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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Accounting software | Accounting software | |||
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Project estimation software | Project management software | |||
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Recordkeeping software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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4-way tire valve tools | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Air drills | Pneumatic drill | |||
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Air spray guns | Compressed air gun | |||
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Air/steam bags | Air bags for loading | |||
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Airless spray guns | Hand sprayers | |||
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Awls | Awls | |||
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Bail cutting knives | Razor knives | |||
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Balancing machines | Wheel balancing equipment | |||
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Bead breakers | Wedges | |||
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Bead expanders | Expanders | |||
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Bead seaters | Pry bars | |||
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Buffers | Power buffers | |||
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Computerized tire/wheel balancing equipment | Wheel balancing equipment | |||
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Curved-point scalpel knives | Razor knives | |||
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Cutting blades | Knife blades | |||
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Deburring tools | Deburring equipment | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Duck-billed bead-breaking wedges | Wedges | |||
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Electric knife heaters | Heater elements | |||
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Eye protection | Safety glasses | |||
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Fast-trim vent knives | Razor knives | |||
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Hammers | Hammers | |||
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Hand rasps | Rasps | |||
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Hand rollers for adhesives | Adhesive rollers | |||
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Handheld extruders | Extruders | |||
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Hawk bill knives | Razor knives | |||
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Heavy duty T-handle reamers | Reamers | |||
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Heavy duty T-handle spiral probe cement tools | Insertion tools | |||
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Heavy duty awls | Awls | |||
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Holding clamps | Hold down clamps | |||
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Hot vulcanizing plates | Vulcanizing machines | |||
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Hub-cap pullers | Pullers | |||
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Hydraulic jacks | Jacks | |||
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Hydraulic pumps | Hydraulic pumps | |||
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Inner-liner scrapers | Scrapers | |||
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Insertion tools | Insertion tools | |||
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Insulated heater knives | Razor knives | |||
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Jacks | Jacks | |||
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Lug wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Mallets | Mallets | |||
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Mechanical tire changers | Tire changing machines | |||
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Mill knives | Razor knives | |||
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Mold presses | Rubber or plastic presses | |||
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Notched-blade trim knives | Razor knives | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Pneumatic wrenches | Pneumatic impact wrenches | |||
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Power grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Power hoists | Hoists | |||
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Power tire spreaders | Expanders | |||
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Pricking awls | Awls | |||
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Razor knives | Razor knives | |||
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Regroovers | Power routers | |||
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Respirators | Respirators | |||
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Rim clamp tire changers | Tire changing machines | |||
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Rubber patch guns | Hand sprayers | |||
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Safety gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Safety shoes | Safety shoes | |||
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Scissors | Shears | |||
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Scrapers | Scrapers | |||
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Shears | Shears | |||
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Square point knives | Razor knives | |||
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Stickleback rasps | Rasps | |||
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Taper point knives | Razor knives | |||
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Thermocutters | Razor knives | |||
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Tire hammers | Hammers | |||
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Tire irons | Pry bars | |||
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Tire knockers | Mallets | |||
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Tire plug guns | Compressed air gun | |||
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Tire probing awls | Awls | |||
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Tire reamers | Reamers | |||
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Tire stands | Engine or vehicle stands | |||
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Tire tread depth gauges | Height gauges | |||
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Torque wrenches | Torque wrenches | |||
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Trimmer shears | Shears | |||
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Truck lock ring removers | Retaining ring pliers | |||
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Truck tire spoons | Pry bars | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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Vulcanizing machines | Vulcanizing machines | |||
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Wire brushes | Wire brushes | |||
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Workshop cranes | Workshop cranes | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
On-the-Job Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | Some College Courses | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Auto Tire Worker | |||
Automotive Mechanic (Auto Mechanic) | |||
Automotive Technician (Auto Technician) | |||
General Service Technician (GST) | |||
Service Technician | |||
Technician | |||
Tire Balancer | |||
Tire Buster | |||
Tire Changer | |||
Tire Fixer | |||
Tire Groover | |||
Tire Installer | |||
Tire Man | |||
Tire Mechanic | |||
Tire Mounter | |||
Tire Repairer | |||
Tire Servicer | |||
Tire Shop Mechanic | |||
Tire Technician | |||
Tire Worker | |||
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