Mechanical Door Repairers

What the job really is

Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.

At a glance

• Sector: Installation, Maintenance & Repair
• O*NET-SOC code: 49-9011
• O*NET job zone: 2 — some preparation
• Work sample tasks on file: 12
• Tools and technologies listed: 12

What you actually do

Work sample tasks recorded for this occupation:

• Wind large springs with upward motion of arm.
• Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers.
• Carry springs to tops of doors, using ladders or scaffolding, and attach springs to tracks to install spring systems.
• Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.
• Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required.
• Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.
• Collect payment upon job completion.
• Install door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, or electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment.
• Inspect job sites, assessing headroom, side room, or other conditions to determine appropriateness of door for a given location.
• Assemble and fasten tracks to structures or bucks, using impact wrenches or welding equipment.
• Set doors into place or stack hardware sections into openings after rail or track installation.
• Operate lifts, winches, or chain falls to move heavy curtain doors.

Tools and technology

Facebook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Windows, Adjustable hand wrenches, Air wrenches, Bench grinders, Cable crimpers, Cable cutters, Cable pullers

What employers expect you to already be comfortable with.

Where this job leads

Related occupations — the usual moves up and sideways:

• Glaziers
• Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers
• Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
• Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
• Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
• Sheet Metal Workers
• Rail Car Repairers
• Structural Iron and Steel Workers

Getting in

O*NET assigns this occupation job zone 2 (some preparation). The related occupations above are the realistic routes in and out.

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