Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

What Does a Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers Do?

Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
• 2Assemble, 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.
• 3Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.
• 4Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.
• 5Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.
• 6Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
• 7Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.
• 8Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.

Required Skills

• Critical Thinking
• Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
• Elevator Controls INTERACT
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word
• Scheduling software
• Troubleshooting software
• WORLD Electronics Freedomware

Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers Salary