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O*NET detailed work activityMaintain mechanical equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
11 jobs14 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 Maintain tools or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 14 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- 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.
- Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
- Perform routine maintenance on delivery vehicles, such as monitoring fluid levels and replenishing fuel.
- Repair or adjust track switches, using wrenches and replacement parts.
- Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
- Perform routine maintenance or repairs to restore solar thermal systems to baseline operating conditions.
- Perform routine photovoltaic (PV) system maintenance on modules, arrays, batteries, power conditioning equipment, safety systems, structural systems, weather sealing, or balance of systems equipment.
- Dress and reshape worn or damaged railroad switch points or frogs, using portable power grinders.
- Dismantle and repair oil field machinery, boilers, and steam engine parts, using hand tools and power tools.
- Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves or regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, or metalworking machinery.
- Maintain and coordinate repair of marine machinery and equipment for installation on vessels.
- Rotate cleaning rods manually, using turning pins.