Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Forty-seven of Sixty-six

    4800 - GENERAL EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations involved in the maintenance or repair of equipment, machines, or instruments that are not coded to other job families because the equipment is not characteristically related to one of the established subject matter areas such as electronics, electrical, industrial, transportation, instruments, engines, aircraft, ordnance, etc., or because the nature of the work calls for limited knowledge/skill in a variety of crafts or trades as they relate to the repair of such equipment, but not a predominate knowledge of any one trade or craft.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

4804 Locksmithing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in repairing, overhauling, modifying, testing, and installing a variety of locking devices typically found on doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations. The work includes the manufacture and duplication of keys and the keying and combination of locking mechanisms. The work requires a knowledge of the construction, operation, and functional characteristics of locking devices, and skill in manufacturing replacement parts, devising or changing combinations, establishing master keying systems, neutralizing lockouts, and a variety of installation and repair processes such as filing, drilling, chiseling, and grinding.

4805 Medical Equipment Repairing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the installation, maintenance, overhaul, repair, and testing of various medical and dental equipment used in patient diagnosis and treatment and in research laboratories. This work requires a knowledge and application of mechanical, electrical, and electronic principles and circuitry; the ability to determine malfunctions; and the skill to repair and maintain a variety of medical, laboratory, and dental equipment.

4806 Office Appliance Repairing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the maintenance, overhaul, and repair of office machines and appliances such as typewriters, calculating and adding machines, addressing and embossing machines, cash registers, time-stamping, numbering, and checkwriting machines, and duplicating machines such as mimeograph. Work is performed on machines and appliances that incorporate mechanical and electrical features.

4807 Chemical Equipment Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in fabricating component parts, modifying, overhauling, and repairing chemical equipment such as flame throwers, smoke generators, air compressors, and hand and power driven decontaminating devices, impregnating plants, and collective protectors.

4808 Custodial Equipment Servicing

This occupation includes jobs involved in servicing custodial equipment such as waxing machines, vacuum cleaners, power scrubbing machines, and wall washing machines. Work includes disassembling, making minor repairs, cleaning, oiling, and greasing equipment and replacing worn gears, gaskets, belts, brushes, and roller bearings. May include building ladders and steps and making push brooms and wash applicators.

4816 Protective and Safety Equipment Fabricating and Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in the assembly, fabrication, modification, and/or repair of a variety of protective and safety equipment, including but not limited to gas masks, hoods, respirators, filters, canisters, collective protectors, boots, detection kits, manually operated decontaminating equipment, safety glasses, and goggles.

4818 Aircraft Survival Flight Equipment Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in disassembling, repairing, testing, troubleshooting, examining, fitting, modifying, maintaining, installing, and determining serviceability of aircraft survival and flight equipment such as helmets, torso harness assemblies, preservers, parachutes, life rafts, chemical and biological protective devices, survival kits, oxygen masks, and anti-G-suits. The work includes operational and circuit checks of emergency signaling and communication devices such as survival radios and beacons. The work requires knowledge of mechanical and electrical repair and maintenance procedures, pyrotechnic and explosive devices, and aircraft egress systems. In addition, the work requires familiarity with aircraft assigned to the unit, detailed knowledge of the operation and characteristics of aircraft survival and flight equipment, and the ability to demonstrate and explain proper usage and operation of the equipment.

4819 Bowling Equipment Repairing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in maintaining and repairing bowling equipment. The work includes making operational and test equipment checks, diagnosing malfunctions, disassembling, repairing and replacing parts, reassembling, adjusting, and making final operational tests. In addition, the work involves conditioning and minor repair of bowling lanes, approaches, and pins. The work requires a knowledge and application of mechanical and electrical operating principles of the equipment, the ability to determine malfunctions, and the skill to repair and maintain a variety of bowling equipment.

4820 Vending Machine Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in repairing vending machines in wholesale, retail, service, or recreational establishments. Includes installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and adjusting a variety of components, assemblies, and systems such as ice-making, refrigeration, carbonation, dispensing, electrical, coin-handling, and evaporation systems.

4840 Tool and Equipment Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in maintaining, adjusting, sharpening, and repairing a variety of tools, safety equipment, and portable power equipment such as pipe wrenches, acetylene cutting torches, pneumatic hammers, hydraulic rivet guns, portable pumps, high-pressure airless spray guns, hand-held electric power tools, grinders, drills, cutters, chisels, picks, axes, shovels, mowing equipment, etc., that are issued from shop toolroom and equipment areas to production and maintenance workers.

4845 Orthopedic Appliance Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in making and repairing orthopedic appliances such as artificial arms and legs, braces, arch supports, and shoes on prescription of an orthopedic surgeon or other medical officer.

4848 Mechanical Parts Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in assembling, disassembling, adjusting, modifying, repairing, reworking, reconditioning, and testing nonaircraft mechanical parts or components where significant knowledge of component relationships and their functions in the major end item is not required. Includes riveting, pinning, fitting, connecting, drilling, reaming, and tapping parts (not machining) using hand and power tools.

4850 Bearing Reconditioning*

This occupation includes jobs involved in reconditioning various types of bearings from aircraft, engines, instruments, propellers, ground equipment, or other property. Includes identifying and visually examining bearings to either condemn them or determine the type of further processing required; replacing and matching parts on selected types of bearings; and calibrating, precision gauging, and testing bearings with specialized equipment.

4855 Domestic Appliance Repairing

This occupation includes jobs that involve installing, maintaining, and repairing major appliances such as electric and gas ranges and stoves, dishwashers, automatic clothes washers, and dryers. Includes examining units to determine malfunctions, disassembling units, replacing parts and components, reassembling, adjusting, and testing appliances. The work requires knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing techniques as associated with the functioning of household appliances, and skill in the use of hand and power tools and testing devices.