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Career Details :: Refrigeration Mechanics
Description
Install and repair industrial and commercial refrigerating systems.
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
- Replaces or adjusts defective or worn parts to repair system and reassembles system.
- Reads blueprints to determine location, size, capacity, and type of components needed to build refrigeration system.
- Observes system operation, using gauges and instruments, and adjusts or replaces mechanisms and parts, according to specifications.
- Drills holes and installs mounting brackets and hangers into floor and walls of building.
- Dismantles malfunctioning systems and tests components, using electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic testing equipment.
- Cuts, bends, threads, and connects pipe to functional components and water, power, or refrigeration system.
- Mounts compressor, condenser, and other components in specified location on frame, using hand tools and acetylene welding equipment.
- Lays out reference points for installation of structural and functional components, using measuring instruments.
- Tests lines, components, and connections for leaks.
- Brazes or solders parts to repair defective joints and leaks.
- Lifts and aligns components into position, using hoist or block and tackle.
- Fabricates and assembles components and structural portions of refrigeration system, using hand tools, powered tools, and welding equipment.
- Adjusts valves according to specifications and charges system with specified type of refrigerant.
- Installs expansion and control valves, using acetylene torch and wrenches.
- Keeps records of repairs and replacements made and causes of malfunctions.
- Assembles structural and functional components, such as controls, switches, gauges, wiring harnesses, valves, pumps, compressors, condensers, cores, and pipes.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Consequence of Error
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
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