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O*NET detailed work activityInstall electrical components, equipment, or systems
Stays humanHands-on work
18 jobs34 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Install commercial or production equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 34 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Strip insulation from wire ends, using wire stripping pliers, and attach wires to terminals for subsequent soldering.
- Perform semi-skilled and unskilled laboring duties related to the installation, maintenance and repair of a wide variety of electrical systems and equipment.
- Install module array interconnect wiring, implementing measures to disable arrays during installation.
- Connect components to assemblies such as radio systems, instruments, magnetos, inverters, and in-flight refueling systems, using hand tools and soldering irons.
- Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, or other components.
- Install, maintain, or repair security systems, alarm devices, or related equipment, following blueprints of electrical layouts and building plans.
- Install electrical and electronic components, assemblies, and systems in aircraft, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering irons.
- Mount and fasten control panels, door and window contacts, sensors, or video cameras, and attach electrical and telephone wiring to connect components.
- Install ground leads and connect power cables to equipment, such as motors.
- Fasten small metal or plastic boxes to walls to house electrical switches or outlets.
- Install new fuses, electrical cables, or power sources as required.
- Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
- Update existing equipment, performing tasks such as installing updated circuit boards or additional memory.
- Install fixtures, outlets, terminal boards, switches, and wall boxes, using hand tools.
- Install electrical assemblies and wiring in aircraft camera housings and memory cards or film in cameras, following blueprints and using hand tools and soldering equipment.
- Bolt component parts together to form tower assemblies, using hand tools.
- Install repaired equipment in various settings, such as industrial or military establishments.
- Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
- Install copper-clad ground rods, using a manual post driver.
- Install all necessary transmission equipment components, including antennas or antenna mounts, surge arrestors, transmission lines, connectors, or tower-mounted amplifiers (TMAs).
- Install electrical cables or wire fixtures.
- Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.
- Erect electrical system components and barricades, and rig scaffolds, hoists, and shoring.
- Install telephone station equipment, such as intercommunication systems, transmitters, receivers, relays, and ringers, and related apparatus, such as coin collectors, telephone booths, and switching-key equipment.
- Solder electrical connections, using soldering iron.
- Install or repair tower lighting components, including strobes, beacons, or lighting controllers.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Assemble, install, test, or maintain electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, or fixtures, using hand tools or power tools.
- Handle high voltage sources and hang electrical cables.
- Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.
- Thread conduit ends, connect couplings, and fabricate and secure conduit support brackets, using hand tools.
- Assemble and install electrical, plumbing, mechanical, hydraulic, and structural components and accessories, using hand or power tools.
- Assemble, install, or repair wiring, electrical or electronic components, pipe systems, plumbing, machinery, or equipment.
- Insert sealing strips, wiring, insulating material, ladders, flanges, gauges, or valves, depending on types of structures being assembled.
- Install, inspect and test electric meters, relays, and power sources to detect causes of malfunctions and inaccuracies, using hand tools and testing equipment.