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Career Details :: Meter Mechanics
Description
Test, adjust, and repair gas, water, and oil meters.
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
- Connects gas, oil, water, or air meter to test apparatus to detect leaks.
- Reassembles meter and meter parts, using soldering gun, power tools and hand tools.
- Analyzes test results to determine cause of persistent meter registration errors.
- Dismantles meter and replaces defective parts, such as case, shafts, gears, disks, and recording mechanisms, using soldering iron and hand tools.
- Records test results, materials used, and meters needing repair on log or card and segregates meters requiring repair.
- Lubricates moving meter parts, using oil gun.
- Cleans plant growth, scale, and rust from meter housing, using wire brush, buffer, sandblaster, or cleaning compounds.
- Inspects, repairs, and maintains gas meters at wells or processing plants.
- Adjusts meter and repeats test until meter registration is within specified limits.
- Caps meter housing and activates controls on paint booth to spray paint meter case.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Outdoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
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