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Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

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

What you’d do

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

Skills that matter

  • Equipment Maintenance
  • Repairing
  • Troubleshooting
  • Critical Thinking
  • Operations Monitoring
  • Installation

How to get there

Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree

Also called

  • Elevator Mechanic
  • Elevator Service Mechanic
  • Elevator Service Technician (Elevator Service Tech)
  • Elevator Technician (Elevator Tech)
  • Elevator Adjuster
  • Elevator Constructor

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