Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
Repair, test, adjust, or install electronic equipment, such as industrial controls, transmitters, and antennas.
Most important skills
- Operations Monitoring
- Repairing
- Critical Thinking
- Equipment Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Quality Control Analysis
- Complex Problem Solving
- Judgment and Decision Making
Key knowledge
- Computers and Electronics
- Mechanical
- Production and Processing
- Customer and Personal Service
- Mathematics
- Administration and Management
- Engineering and Technology
- English Language
What the work involves
- Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, such as checking, cleaning, or repairing equipment, to detect and prevent problems.
- Examine work orders and converse with equipment operators to detect equipment problems and to ascertain whether mechanical or human errors contributed to the problems.
- Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
- Operate equipment to demonstrate proper use or to analyze malfunctions.
- Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
- Repair or adjust equipment, machines, or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment.
- Calibrate testing instruments and installed or repaired equipment to prescribed specifications.
- Advise management regarding customer satisfaction, product performance, or suggestions for product improvements.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Conventional, Investigative.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree (45.7% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (50.7%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (40%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 3: Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Moderate | Lower on contact with others than 52% of occupations compared | 69% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Low | Lower on dealing with the public than 78% of occupations compared | 36% of surveyed respondents chose “Very important” |
| Teamwork | Moderate | Lower on teamwork than 52% of occupations compared | 75% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | High | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 62% of occupations compared | 46% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Very low | Lower on time pressure than 91% of occupations compared | — |
| Conflict situations | High | Higher on conflict situations than 62% of occupations compared | 41% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Moderate | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 50% of occupations compared | — |
| Consequence of error | High | Higher on consequence of error than 73% of occupations compared | 42% of surveyed respondents chose “Serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: very low
- Conflict situations: high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: moderate
- Consequence of error: high
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 1.28%
- Contact with others about half the time: 29.83%
- Contact with others most of the time: 0.06%
- Constant contact with others: 68.83%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 35.05%
- Fairly important: 1.38%
- Important: 27.53%
- Very important: 36.04%
- Extremely important: 0%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 1.28%
- Fairly important: 22.57%
- Important: 0%
- Very important: 1.28%
- Extremely important: 74.87%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 21.04%
- Some freedom: 33.23%
- A lot of freedom: 45.74%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
Time pressure
- Never: 16.42%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 21.68%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 19.07%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 15.55%
- Every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
Conflict situations
- Never: 26.39%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 5.95%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 16.42%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 41.4%
- Every day: 9.84%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 26.64%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 26.95%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 16.42%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 1.86%
- Every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 6.54%
- Fairly serious: 0%
- Serious: 42.38%
- Very serious: 34.11%
- Extremely serious: 16.97%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2021
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