Description:
Repair, maintain, or install computers, word processing systems, and electronic office machines, such as duplicating and fax machines.
Duties:
• Converse with customers to determine details of equipment problems.
• Reassemble machines after making repairs or replacing parts.
• Travel to customers' stores or offices to service machines or to provide emergency repair service.
• Assemble machines according to specifications, using hand or power tools and measuring devices.
• Operate machines to test functioning of parts or mechanisms.
• Maintain records of equipment maintenance work or repairs.
Where and When:
• Work mainly in offices repairing equipment.
• May work in manufacturing plants repairing machines.
What or Who They Work With:
• Work with office machines such as computers, faxes, copiers, and word processors.
Education and Training:
• Most have a High School Diploma.
• Some have an Associate's Degree.
• Most have at least 2 years of related work experience.
• Some have months of on-the-job training.
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Related School Subjects:
Science
Print:
Read:
Popular Mechanics for Kids: Who Uses a Drill? by Popular Mechanics
Simple Machines (Starting with Science) by Deborah Hodge and Ray Boudreau
Rocks, Jeans, and Busy Machines: An Engineering Kids Storybook by Alane Rivera and Raymundo Rivera
Engineering the ABC’s: How Engineers Shape Our World by Patty O'Brien Novack
Engineering Elephants by Emily M. Hunt and Michelle L. Pantoya
Rocket Science: 50 Flying, Floating, Flipping, Spinning Gadgets Kids Create Themselves by Jim Weise
Stomp Rockets, Catapults, and Kaleidoscopes: 30+ Amazing Science Projects You Can Build for Less than $1 by Curt Gabrielson
All About Mechanical Engineering: Physical Science (Science Readers) by Don Herweck
Mechanical Engineering: (Mission Science) by Don Herweck
Janice VanCleave's Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun (Science for Every Kid Series) by Janice VanCleave
Explore:
Inventor's Toolbox
U.S. Mint Inventor's Challenge
PBS Kids Mechanical Madness
Sources:
VA Career VIEW
