Tire Repairers and Changers
Repair and replace tires.
Most important skills
- Time Management
- Active Listening
- Service Orientation
- Speaking
- Operations Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Troubleshooting
- Repairing
Key knowledge
- Mechanical
- Customer and Personal Service
- Administration and Management
- Production and Processing
- Education and Training
- Public Safety and Security
- Sales and Marketing
- English Language
What the work involves
- Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
- Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks.
- Remount wheels onto vehicles.
- Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.
- Reassemble tires onto wheels.
- Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
- Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels.
- Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Realistic, Conventional, Investigative.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) (47.9% of expert ratings)
- Related experience
- None (30.9%)
- On-the-job training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month (35.5%)
- 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 Tire Repairers and Changers 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 | High | Higher on contact with others than 64% of occupations compared | — |
| Dealing with the public | High | Higher on dealing with the public than 71% of occupations compared | — |
| Teamwork | Very low | Lower on teamwork than 81% of occupations compared | — |
| Freedom to make decisions | Low | Lower on freedom to make decisions than 69% of occupations compared | 53% of surveyed respondents chose “Some freedom” |
| Time pressure | High | Higher on time pressure than 65% of occupations compared | — |
| Conflict situations | Low | Lower on conflict situations than 78% of occupations compared | 69% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Moderate | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 52% of occupations compared | 39% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Consequence of error | High | Higher on consequence of error than 65% of occupations compared | 37% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: high
- Conflict situations: low
- 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: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Occasional contact with others: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Contact with others about half the time: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Contact with others most of the time: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Constant contact with others: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 5.49%
- Fairly important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Very important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Extremely important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Teamwork
- Not important at all: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Fairly important: 29.97%
- Important: 2.74%
- Very important: 24.98%
- Extremely important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Very little freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Limited freedom: 3.46%
- Some freedom: 52.93%
- A lot of freedom: 27.36%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Time pressure
- Never: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Once a year or more but not every month: 16.25%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 16.25%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 15.16%
- Every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Conflict situations
- Never: 5.63%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 69.39%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 3.46%
- Once a week or more but not every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Every day: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 4.19%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 39.42%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 30.69%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 22.82%
- Every day: 2.88%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 25.92%
- Fairly serious: 6.93%
- Serious: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Very serious: 16.25%
- Extremely serious: 37.4%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
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