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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Operate, test, maintain, or calibrate unmanned, automated, servo-mechanical, or electromechanical equipment. May operate unmanned submarines, aircraft, or other equipment at worksites, such as oil rigs, deep ocean exploration, or hazardous waste removal. May assist engineers in testing and designing robotics equipment. | Test performance of electromechanical assemblies, using test instruments such as oscilloscopes, electronic voltmeters, and bridges. | |||
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Read blueprints, schematics, diagrams, and technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly. | ||||
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Install electrical and electronic parts and hardware in housings or assemblies, using soldering equipment and hand tools. | ||||
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Align, fit, and assemble component parts, using hand tools, power tools, fixtures, templates, and microscopes. | ||||
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Inspect parts for surface defects. | ||||
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Analyze and record test results, and prepare written testing documentation. | ||||
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Verify dimensions and clearances of parts to ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments. | ||||
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Operate metalworking machines to fabricate housings, jigs, fittings, and fixtures. | ||||
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Repair, rework, and calibrate hydraulic and pneumatic assemblies and systems to meet operational specifications and tolerances. | ||||
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Train others to install, use, and maintain robots. | ||||
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Develop, test, and program new robots. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Electro-Mechanical Technicians
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 | |||
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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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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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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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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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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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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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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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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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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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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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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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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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Installation | Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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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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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Equipment Selection | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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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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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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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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Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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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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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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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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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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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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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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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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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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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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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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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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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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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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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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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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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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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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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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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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Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
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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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Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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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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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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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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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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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Circuit simulation software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Computer aided design CAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Dassault Systemes SolidWorks software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Human machine interface HMI software | Industrial control software | |||
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Linux | Operating system software | |||
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Manufacturing resource planning MRP software | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Microsoft Access | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Motion control software | Industrial control software | |||
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National Instruments LabVIEW | Development environment software | |||
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Operating system software | Operating system software | |||
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Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management PLM | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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PTC Pro/ENGINEER software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Rockwell RSLogix | Program testing software | |||
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UNIX | Operating system software | |||
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Conductivity sensors | Conductivity meters | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Digital cameras | Digital cameras | |||
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Digital multimeters | Multimeters | |||
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Direct current DC power supplies | Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards | |||
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Drill presses | Workshop presses | |||
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Flow meters | Flowmeters | |||
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Force gauges | Force or torque sensors | |||
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Framing squares | Squares | |||
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Function generators | Signal generators | |||
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Hammers | Hammers | |||
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Hex wrenches | Hex keys | |||
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Hipot testers | Hipot testers | |||
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Laptop computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Laser alignment tools | Laser measuring systems | |||
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Load cells | Loadcells | |||
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Measuring tapes | Tape measures | |||
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Megohmmeters | Megohmmeters | |||
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Open end wrenches | Open end wrenches | |||
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Oscilloscopes | Oscilloscopes | |||
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Pipe benders | Pipe bending tools | |||
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Pipe threading machines | Threading machines | |||
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Pressure gauges | Pressure indicators | |||
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Pressure sensors | Pressure indicators | |||
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Programmable logic controllers PLC | Microcontrollers | |||
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Protective goggles | Goggles | |||
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Screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Socket wrench sets | Socket sets | |||
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Soldering equipment | Soldering irons or guns | |||
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Spectrum analyzers | Frequency analyzers | |||
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Thermocouples | Thermocouples | |||
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Voltmeters | Voltage or current meters | |||
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Welding equipment | Welding tools | |||
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Wire strippers | Stripping tools | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Related Work Experience | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Required Level of Education | Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | |||
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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-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Automation Technician | |||
Certified Control Systems Technician | |||
Electrician | |||
Electro-Mechanic | |||
Electro-Mechanical Technician (E/M Technician) | |||
Electromechanical Assembler | |||
Electromechanical Equipment Tester | |||
Electronic Instrument Technician | |||
Electronic Technician | |||
Laboratory Technician | |||
Maintenance Technician | |||
Mechanical Technician | |||
Photovoltaic Fabrication and Testing Technician (PV Fabrication and Testing Technician) | |||
Process Engineering Technician | |||
Product Test Specialist | |||
Remotely Piloted Vehicle Controller (RPV Controller) | |||
Remotely Piloted Vehicle Engineering Technician | |||
Robotic Welder | |||
Robotics Testing Technician | |||
Test Technician | |||
Tester | |||
Unmanned Equipment Operator | |||
Winder | |||
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