skillfactor-pipeline/skills/lift-technician/references/tasks.md

Tasks & work activities — lift technician

Source: O*NET 30.3, occupation 47-4021.00 (Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers).

Task statements

• [Core] Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
• [Core] Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.
• [Core] Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.
• [Core] Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.
• [Core] Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
• [Core] Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
• [Core] Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.
• [Core] Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
• [Core] Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.
• [Core] Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.
• [Core] Participate in additional training to keep skills up to date.
• [Core] Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
• [Core] Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
• [Core] Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
• [Core] Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
• [Core] Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.
• [Supplemental] Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
• [Supplemental] Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
• [Supplemental] Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
• [Supplemental] Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.

Detailed work activities

• Assemble products or production equipment.
• Cut metal components for installation.
• Evaluate construction projects to determine compliance with external standards or regulations.
• Inspect electrical or electronic systems for defects.
• Inspect industrial or commercial equipment to ensure proper operation.
• Install electrical components, equipment, or systems.
• Install metal structural components.
• Locate equipment or materials in need of repair or replacement.
• Maintain mechanical equipment.
• Prepare operational reports.
• Record operational or environmental data.
• Repair electrical equipment.
• Review blueprints or specifications to determine work requirements.
• Test electrical equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning.
• Thread wire or cable through ducts or conduits.
• Update job related knowledge or skills.
• Weld metal components.