Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families, FWS-5300 Definitions


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

5300 - INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE FAMILY

This job family includes occupations involved in the general maintenance, installation, and repair of portable and stationary industrial machinery, tools, and equipment such as sewing machines, machine tools, woodworking and metalworking machines, printing equipment, processing equipment, driving machinery, power generating equipment, air conditioning equipment, heating and boiler plant equipment, and other types of machines and equipment used in the production of goods and services.

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:

5306 Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in repairing and modifying a variety of equipment and systems that achieve regulated climatic conditions. This work requires a knowledge of principles of air conditioning, the ability to recognize and determine the best method for correcting malfunctions, and the skill to make repairs to a variety of air conditioning and cooling unit systems.

5309 Heating and Boiler Plant Equipment Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in installing, maintaining, repairing, and modifying equipment such as coal, gas, and oil-fired heaters and hot air furnaces, heating and power boilers, power generating equipment, and similar systems. The systems provide heat, hot water, or steam for use in the operation of industrial and institutional facilities and equipment. This work requires a knowledge of the principles of combustion and heat or power distribution; the ability to recognize and determine the best methods for correcting malfunctions; and the skill to install and make repairs to a variety of heat and power producing systems.

5310 Kitchen/Bakery Equipment Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in the installation, repair, overhaul, alteration, rebuild, parts replacement, and adjustment of commercial kitchen and/or bakery equipment such as electric and gas ranges, fryers, steamtables, disposers, dishwashers, meat and bread slicers, bone and meat cutters, potato peelers, bread and dough mixers, doughnut machines, dividers and dough hoppers, dough rounders, flour handling machines, proofers, and other food equipment used in cafeterias, hospitals, etc.

5313 Elevator Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the repair and maintenance of high speed elevator systems and moderate or low speed elevators, dumbwaiters, leveling ramps, and escalators to meet regulatory codes and work requirements. The work requires a knowledge of the construction, function, and maintenance procedures of dispatching or scheduling systems, systems components, driving and hoisting machinery, control mechanisms, guide structures, and car or platform equipment and counterweights. Skill is required in planning and carrying out tasks such as tracking and locating troubles, aligning and balancing the network of controls, adjusting and resetting safety devices, and repairing and servicing electromechanical parts and equipment located in the machinery penthouse, shaftway, pit, or on the car or platform.

5317 Laundry and Dry Cleaning Equipment Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in repair work on laundry, dry cleaning, and related equipment.

5318 Lock and Dam Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in the repair of flood control or navigation lock and dam equipment and machinery and the maintenance and repair of buildings, grounds, and structures peculiar to operation of locks and dams.

5323 Oiling and Greasing

This occupation includes jobs involved in lubricating the moving parts or wearing surfaces of mechanical equipment such as shaft and motor bearings, sprockets, drive chains, gears, and pulleys; forcing grease into bearings with grease guns; filling grease cups; filling or changing oil in machine slumps, using hand, pneumatic, or electric pumps, and changing filters; and cleaning dust, dirt, grease, and other adhering material from machinery and equipment, using rags, brushes, or a compressed air blower. Includes making minor repairs to equipment.

5330 Printing Equipment Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in the installation, repair, and overhaul of printing equipment such as printing presses, and allied equipment such as lamps, collating equipment, stitching and gathering machines, cutters, folders, bindery presses, and whirlers.

5334 Marine Machinery Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in dismantling, repairing, relocating, modifying, maintaining, aligning, overhauling, and installing a wide variety of marine machinery, equipment, and systems such as propulsion machinery, lifeboat davits, anchor handling gear, and missile tube equipment that are located aboard submarines, ships, and other floating craft. The work requires a practical knowledge of the mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems and components of diverse marine machinery and their attachments. This includes detailed knowledge of the operating characteristics of the involved machinery, equipment, and systems, their functional relationships, and the applicable installation and repair procedures, methods, and trade practices.

5335 Wind Tunnel Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs that involve repairing and maintaining wind tunnel facilities, preparing wind tunnels for tests, installing specialized equipment, installing and calibrating instrumentation, and recording data during tunnel operation. Includes installing and maintaining instrumentation and equipment such as fans and compressors, balance systems, sting suspension system, survey rake equipment, image system, manometer equipment, angle of attack control mechanisms, and unique features such as plates, wedges, screens, and safety nets; adjusting wind tunnels for particular test conditions, for example, by adjusting moveable walls, nozzles, and slot conditions; installing full scale test articles such as aircraft engines; installing schlieren or other photographic equipment; and fabricating manometer boards, pressure tubes, and lines. The work requires a knowledge of the characteristics, operational range, assembly techniques, fits and tolerances, calibration settings, and adjustments of wind tunnel equipment; ability to diagnose and eliminate equipment malfunctions; and comprehension of the relationships among various equipment in providing special tunnel test conditions.

5341 Industrial Furnace Building and Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involved in constructing, installing, maintaining, and repairing electric and gas furnaces used for melting and refining metals and for annealing and heat treating blanks and dies.

5350 Production Machinery Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in dismantling, repairing, relocating, modifying, maintaining, aligning, overhauling, and installing fixed and semi-fixed production machinery, equipment, and systems such as various standard and numerically controlled machine tools, woodworking and metalworking machines used in the production of goods. The work requires a practical knowledge of the mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems and components of diverse industrial production machinery and their attachments. This includes detailed knowledge of the operating characteristics of the involved machinery, equipment, and systems, their functional relationships, and the applicable installation and repair procedures, methods, and trade practices.

5352 Industrial Equipment Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in dismantling, repairing, aligning, overhauling, and installing general nonproduction industrial plant machinery, equipment, and systems such as bridge cranes, towveyor/conveyor and pneumatic tube systems, sandblasting machines, and other industrial waste and flood control equipment such as compressors, pumps, and valves; and engraving machines, aircraft test block equipment, and fire extinguishing systems. The work requires a practical knowledge of the mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems and components of diverse industrial plant support machinery and equipment, and other equipment that control industrial waste and provide service to establishments such as industrial plants, machine tool repair shops, and hospitals. This includes detailed knowledge of the operating characteristics of the involved systems and equipment, and the applicable installation and repair procedures, methods, and trade practices.

5364 Door Systems Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs involved in installation, adjustment, maintenance, and repair of door operating equipment, including fully automatic and semiautomatic hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, and spring-loaded mechanical operators and controls. Work includes examination, disassembly, parts condition evaluation, parts replacement, reassembly, and adjustment of door opener and closer devices (excluding locks) requiring knowledge of a variety of types of door operator devices supplied by a number of different manufacturers. May also include installation and repair of overhead and sliding/ swinging door assemblies, including structural support, framework, and door.

5365 Physiological Trainer Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs involved in the overhaul, modification, installation, relocation, and testing of physiological training devices including altitude indoctrination flight chambers. Physiological training equipment simulates altitude, weightlessness, acceleration and deceleration, and other conditions or forces of gravity and space. The equipment is used for the purpose of training, testing, and conditioning personnel in the safety, emergency, and counter procedures that are a necessary part of high altitude or space flight.

5378 Powered Support Systems Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in general mechanical work in making a variety of repairs to powered ground and similar support equipment used for aircraft ground servicing; missile, aircraft, air control, and radar installations' powered support; field combat support; engineering and construction project support; and general utilities, including standby and emergency power generating systems. The systems repaired are made up of combinations of components such as: gasoline, diesel, multifuel, or turbine engines; electrical systems; gears; combustion powered generators, compressors, and similar power supply units, including those with heating and cooling applications; and the electric, hydraulic, or pneumatic systems that are part of the equipment repaired.

5384 Gasdynamic Facility Installing and Repairing

This occupation includes jobs involving the installation of systems, equipment, and components comprising a gasdynamic facility; diagnosis of facility malfunctions, and teardown, repair, replacement, and servicing of integrated equipment and components; monitoring and adjustment of systems and equipment to achieve prescribed test conditions, and recording of data observed during tests; and fabrication of parts, fittings, components, test articles, and/or measuring instruments, using machine tools. Facilities are characterized by the integrated use of extreme high temperature heating, high pressure, and/or high vacuum techniques to create fluid dynamic flow of high enthalpy gases for experimental simulation of the flight of hypersonic vehicles. Associated equipment and components include such items as gas fired ceramic storage heaters; high voltage electric arc heaters; mechanical, oil diffusion, and cryogenic vacuum and/or pressure pumps; piping network for coolants, propane gas, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, argon, and/ or compressed air; electric, hydraulic, and pneumatic valves and control devices; and synchronous and wound rotor motors. Facilities are typically constructed on a fail-safe basis utilizing component and system interlocks.