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Career Details :: Helpers, Electricians
Description
Help electricians by performing duties of lesser skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Experience
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.
Education
These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.
Tasks
- Raises, lowers, or positions equipment, tools, and materials for installation or use, using hoist, hand line, or block and tackle.
- Trims trees and clears undergrowth along right-of-way.
- Solders electrical connections, using soldering iron.
- Measures, cuts, and bends wire and conduit, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
- Breaks up concrete to facilitate installation or repair of equipment, using airhammer.
- Rigs scaffolds, hoists, and shoring, erects barricades, and digs trenches.
- Disassembles defective electrical equipment, replaces defective or worn parts, and reassembles equipment, using hand tools.
- Strings transmission lines or cables through ducts or conduits, underground, through equipment, or to towers.
- Maintains tools and equipment, washes parts, and keeps supplies and parts in order.
- Strips insulation from wire ends, using wire-stripping pliers, and attaches wires to terminals for subsequent soldering.
- Transports tools, materials, equipment, and supplies to work site, manually or using hand truck or by driving truck.
- Examines electrical units for loose connections and broken insulation and tightens connections, using hand tools.
- Drills holes for wiring, using power drill, and pulls or pushes wiring through opening.
- Bolts component parts together to form tower assemblies, using hand tools.
- Traces out short circuits in wiring, using test meter.
- Threads conduit ends, connects couplings, and fabricates and secures conduit support brackets, using hand tools.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Electrical Equipment
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Hazardous Conditions
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Consequence of Error
- Degree of Automation
- High Places
Related Majors
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| Contract Major |  [ add ] |
| Elected Studies | [ add ] |
| Elective Studies | [ add ] |
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