Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers. May specialize in maintaining gas, electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or chassis/towing systems as well as repairing generators, appliances, and interior components. Includes workers who perform customized van conversions.
Most important skills
- Repairing
- Troubleshooting
- Complex Problem Solving
- Operations Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Equipment Maintenance
- Quality Control Analysis
- Reading Comprehension
Key knowledge
- Mechanical
- Building and Construction
- Customer and Personal Service
- Administration and Management
- Education and Training
- English Language
- Engineering and Technology
- Mathematics
What the work involves
- Examine or test operation of parts or systems to ensure completeness of repairs.
- Repair plumbing or propane gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe.
- Inspect recreational vehicles to diagnose problems and perform necessary adjustment, repair, or overhaul.
- Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, or hand tools.
- Confer with customers, read work orders, or examine vehicles needing repair to determine the nature and extent of damage.
- List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, or diagrams.
- Connect electrical systems to outside power sources, and activate switches to test the operation of appliances or light fixtures.
- Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of toilets or sinks.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Conventional, Investigative.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Less than a High School Diploma (46.3% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (24.9%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months (45.1%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 2: Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians 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 | Very low | Lower on contact with others than 85% of occupations compared | — |
| Dealing with the public | Moderate | Lower on dealing with the public than 51% of occupations compared | 38% of surveyed respondents chose “Important” |
| Teamwork | Very low | Lower on teamwork than 94% of occupations compared | — |
| Freedom to make decisions | Moderate | Lower on freedom to make decisions than 53% of occupations compared | 43% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Low | Lower on time pressure than 79% of occupations compared | 33% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Conflict situations | Low | Lower on conflict situations than 79% of occupations compared | 32% 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 63% of occupations compared | 31% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Consequence of error | Moderate | Lower on consequence of error than 57% of occupations compared | 31% of surveyed respondents chose “Fairly serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: low
- Conflict situations: low
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: low
- Consequence of error: moderate
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: 2.76%
- Contact with others about half the time: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Contact with others most of the time: 22.96%
- Constant contact with others: 29.83%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2025
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 12.32%
- Fairly important: 8.7%
- Important: 38.04%
- Very important: 9.19%
- Extremely important: 31.75%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2025
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 25.09%
- Important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Very important: 4.75%
- Extremely important: 23.72%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2025
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 13.38%
- Limited freedom: 6.42%
- Some freedom: 37.37%
- A lot of freedom: 42.82%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2025
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 32.61%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 16.76%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 23.07%
- Every day: 27.56%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2025
Conflict situations
- Never: 28.76%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 31.7%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 19.8%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 10.47%
- Every day: 9.26%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2025
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 26.77%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 20.17%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 22%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 31.06%
- Every day: 0%
n = 21, Incumbent 08/2025
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 17.45%
- Fairly serious: 31.38%
- Serious: 12.53%
- Very serious: 24.84%
- Extremely serious: 13.8%
n = 20, Incumbent 08/2025
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