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O*NET detailed work activityRepair electronic equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
13 jobs16 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 Repair electrical or electronic 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, 16 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
- Diagnose or repair problems with electronic equipment, such as sound, navigation, communication, and security equipment, in motor vehicles.
- Repair or replace faulty equipment, such as defective and damaged telephones, wires, switching system components, and associated equipment.
- Make repairs to robots or peripheral equipment, such as replacement of defective circuit boards, sensors, controllers, encoders, or servomotors.
- Maintain electrical switchgear, process controls, transmitters, gauges, and control equipment in accordance with geothermal plant procedures.
- Maintain, calibrate, or repair plant instrumentation, control, and electronic devices in geothermal plants.
- Repair and maintain electrical and electronic controls for propulsion and braking systems.
- Repair or rebuild equipment such as starters, generators, distributors, or door controls, using electrician's tools.
- Repair and operate battery-charging equipment.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Test and replace batteries and other electronic components.
- Disassemble entertainment equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons.
- Construct, test, maintain, and repair substation relay and control systems.
- Test batteries, using hydrometers and ammeters, and charge batteries as necessary.
- Engineer, install, maintain, or repair security systems, programmable logic controls, or other security-related electronic systems.
- Maintain or make minor adjustments or field repairs to equipment used in surveys, including the replacement of parts on traffic data gathering devices.
- Test battery charges, and replace or recharge batteries as necessary.