Index
Intro
This unit group includes workers, not elsewhere classified, who repair and service a wide variety of products, such as cameras, scales, musical instruments, coin machines, vending machines, sporting goods and other miscellaneous products and equipment. They are employed by product specialty repair shops and service establishments.
Some mobility may occur among workers in this unit group.
Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
Main Duties
Repairers and servicers in this unit group perform some or all of the following duties:
- Inspect products to determine the requirement for repair
- Repair or replace defective or worn out parts and components using hand, power or specially designed tools
- Test and adjust repaired products for proper functioning
- Perform routine maintenance
- May calibrate products using hand tools.
Employment Requirements
- Some secondary school education is usually required.
- Completion of college or other courses relevant to a particular equipment or product repair
or
Completion of several months of on-the-job training is usually required.
All Titles
- animal control trapper
- exterminator
- exterminator, pests
- fumigator
- fumigator, pests
- nuisance control trapper
- pest control operator
- pest control representative
- pest control service representative
- pest control technician
- pest control trapper
- pest controller
- pest extermination representative
- pest exterminator
- pest fumigator
Exclusions
- Locksmiths (See 7384 Other trades and related occupations, n.e.c.)
- Supervisors of workers in this unit group (See 7205 Contractors and supervisors, other construction trades, installers, repairers and servicers)