Repair, maintain, and install computer hardware such as peripheral equipment and word processing systems.
Duties and Tasks:
1) Replaces defective components and wiring.
2) Tests faulty equipment and applies knowledge of functional operation of electronic units and systems to diagnose cause of malfunction.
3) Aligns, adjusts, and calibrates equipment according to specifications.
4) Calibrates testing instruments.
5) Adjusts mechanical parts, using hand tools and soldering iron
6) Converses with equipment operators to ascertain problems with equipment before breakdown or cause of breakdow
7) Tests electronic components and circuits to locate defects, using oscilloscopes, signal generators, ammeters, and voltmeters.
8) Maintains records of repairs, calibrations, and tests.
Activities:
1) Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
2) Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
3) Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
4) Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment — Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
5) Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
6) Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
7) Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
8) Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
9) Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
10) Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
11) Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
12) Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
13) Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
14) Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Abilities:
1) Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
2) Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
3) Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
4) Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
5) Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
6) Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
7) Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
8) Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
9) Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
10) Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
11) Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
12) Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
13) Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
14) Wrist-Finger Speed — The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
15) Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
16) Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
17) Speed of Closure — The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
18) Hearing Sensitivity — The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
19) Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
20) Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
21) Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
22) Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
23) Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
24) Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
25) Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
26) Response Orientation — The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
27) Reaction Time — The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
Knowledge
Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.