Overview
Electronics Trades Workers maintain, adjust and repair electronic equipment such as commercial and office machines, video and audio equipment, and electronic instruments and control systems, and transmit and receive radio messages.
Tasks
This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.
- examining and testing machines, equipment, instruments and control systems to diagnose faults
- adjusting, repairing, and replacing worn and defective parts and wiring, and maintaining machines, equipment and instruments
- reassembling, test operating and adjusting equipment
- advising users of correct operating procedures to prevent malfunctions
- receiving messages by interpreting code and converting to plain language, and writing and typing messages for transmission
- monitoring radio traffic, and transmitting and receiving voice messages
- installing electronic instruments and control systems
- applying knowledge of electrical, electronic, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic principles in commissioning and maintaining control systems
Job Titles
- Business Machine Mechanic
- Communications Operator
- Electronic Equipment Trades Worker
- Electronic Instrument Trades Worker
- Electronic Instrument Trades Worker