Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

Wages
In 2021, the average annual wage in Alabama was $82,560 with most people making between $48,380 and $99,590.
Wages by Industry
  • Building Equipment Contractors $70,920.00
Education Required
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
Common Majors
  • Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology
About the job

Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

What you'll do
    • Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.
    • Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
    • Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
    • Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
    • Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
    • Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
    • Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
    • Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
    • Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.
    • Participate in additional training to keep skills up to date.
Things you need to know
    • Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
    • Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
    • Building and Construction - Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
    • Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
    • Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Abilities you'll need to have
    • Repairing - Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
    • Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
    • Operation Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
    • Equipment Maintenance - Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
    • Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
    • Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
    • Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.