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Career Details :: Transformer Repairers
Description
Clean and repair electrical transformers.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Cleans transformer case, using scrapers and solvent.
- Signals crane operator to raise heavy transformer component subassemblies.
- Replaces worn or defective parts, using hand tools.
- Secures input and output wires in position.
- Fills reassembled transformer with oil until coils are submerged.
- Drains and filters transformer oil.
- Dismantles lamination assembly, preparatory to cleaning and inspection.
- Reassembles transformer.
- Inspects transformer for defects, such as cracked weldments.
- Winds replacement coils, using coil-winding machine.
- Disassembles distribution, streetlight, or instrument transformers.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Repairing & Maintaining Electrical Equipment
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Outdoors
- Hazardous Conditions
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