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

    5800 - TRANSPORTATION/MOBILE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations involved in repairing, adjusting, and maintaining self-propelled transportation and other mobile equipment (except aircraft), including any special purpose features with which they may be equipped.

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:

5803 Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the repair and modification of combustion powered heavy duty vehicles and heavy mobile equipment such as bulldozers, road graders, crawler tractors, power shovels, locomotives, combat tanks, cranes, large transporters, and firetrucks that have utility systems or special hydraulic, pneumatic, or mechanical systems, features, and controls that are designed for construction, combat, earth moving, ship loading, firefighting, and comparable heavy duty, industrial or special applications. The repair of major systems (such as engine, transmission, drive line, and hydraulic utility systems) is included whether accomplished as part of or apart from repair of the total or complete heavy mobile equipment involved. The work requires knowledge of how heavy duty engines, hydraulic systems, transmissions, and other parts and systems work. It requires ability to detect faulty items, determine causes of malfunction, and determine best repair methods. It requires skill to assemble, disassemble, repair, or modify components and systems.

5806 Mobile Equipment Servicing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in servicing automotive and mobile equipment such as automobiles, trucks, buses, ambulances, fork lifts, and bulldozers. Typical service includes dispensing gasoline, checking fluid levels and tire pressures, inflating tires, washing cars, lubricating vehicles, installing simple accessory items, and changing and repairing tires and tubes.

5823 Automotive Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the maintenance and repair of combustion-powered automotive vehicles, over-the-road trucks, and comparable vehicles such as passenger cars, pick-up trucks, buses, semi-trailer truck tractors, warehouse tractors, farm tractors, fork lifts, motorcycles, light combat vehicles such as jeeps and trucks, and other vehicles with similar characteristics, including their engines, transmissions, and other mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and controlled systems.

5876 Electromotive Equipment Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs involved in overhaul and repair of electric-powered material handling and other self-propelled mobile equipment such as electric-powered fork lifts, cranes, platform lifts, and electric tugs, including magnetically controlled types. The work requires the application of general mechanical skills and knowledge together with a specialized knowledge of electric motors and circuitry from which such equipment derives motive power.