Medical Equipment Repairers
Test, adjust, or repair biomedical or electromedical equipment.
Most important skills
- Repairing
- Equipment Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Operations Monitoring
- Quality Control Analysis
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
Key knowledge
- Mechanical
- Computers and Electronics
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Engineering and Technology
- Mathematics
- Public Safety and Security
- Education and Training
What the work involves
- Examine medical equipment or facility's structural environment and check for proper use of equipment to protect patients and staff from electrical or mechanical hazards and to ensure compliance with safety regulations.
- Disassemble malfunctioning equipment and remove, repair, or replace defective parts, such as motors, clutches, or transformers.
- Keep records of maintenance, repair, and required updates of equipment.
- Perform preventive maintenance or service, such as cleaning, lubricating, or adjusting equipment.
- Test or calibrate components or equipment, following manufacturers' manuals and troubleshooting techniques, using hand tools, power tools, or measuring devices.
- Explain or demonstrate correct operation or preventive maintenance of medical equipment to personnel.
- Study technical manuals or attend training sessions provided by equipment manufacturers to maintain current knowledge.
- Plan and carry out work assignments, using blueprints, schematic drawings, technical manuals, wiring diagrams, or liquid or air flow sheets, following prescribed regulations, directives, or other instructions as required.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Conventional, Investigative.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree (39.3% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (40%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months (23%)
- 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 Medical Equipment Repairers 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 | Higher on contact with others than 55% of occupations compared | 64% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | High | Higher on dealing with the public than 66% of occupations compared | 53% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Moderate | Higher on teamwork than 54% of occupations compared | 62% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | High | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 70% of occupations compared | 56% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Moderate | Lower on time pressure than 53% of occupations compared | 34% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very low | Lower on conflict situations than 96% of occupations compared | 50% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Low | Lower on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 78% of occupations compared | 58% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Consequence of error | High | Higher on consequence of error than 72% of occupations compared | 35% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: moderate
- Conflict situations: very low
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: low
- 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: 6.99%
- Contact with others about half the time: 5.41%
- Contact with others most of the time: 23.72%
- Constant contact with others: 63.87%
n = 27, Incumbent 08/2023
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 12.35%
- Fairly important: 8.98%
- Important: 15.21%
- Very important: 10.02%
- Extremely important: 53.44%
n = 28, Incumbent 08/2023
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 1.9%
- Fairly important: 11.36%
- Important: 0%
- Very important: 25.07%
- Extremely important: 61.67%
n = 28, Incumbent 08/2023
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 21.56%
- Some freedom: 22.25%
- A lot of freedom: 56.19%
n = 27, Incumbent 08/2023
Time pressure
- Never: 6.47%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 4.87%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 22.35%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 32.7%
- Every day: 33.61%
n = 27, Incumbent 08/2023
Conflict situations
- Never: 31.53%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 50.33%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 8.25%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 9.89%
- Every day: 0%
n = 28, Incumbent 08/2023
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 9.74%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 58.12%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 23.16%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 6.72%
- Every day: 2.26%
n = 28, Incumbent 08/2023
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 4.56%
- Fairly serious: 21.42%
- Serious: 25.28%
- Very serious: 13.81%
- Extremely serious: 34.92%
n = 27, Incumbent 08/2023
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