About This Career

Installs, repairs, or adjusts audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes or other venues. May perform routine maintenance.

This career is part of the Manufacturing cluster Maintenance, Installation and Repair pathway.

A person in this career:

• Installs, services, and repairs electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
• Calibrates and tests equipment, and locates circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.
• Confers with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs.
• Positions or mounts speakers, and wires speakers to consoles.
• Instructs customers on the safe and proper use of equipment.
• Makes service calls to repair units in customers' homes, or returns units to shops for major repairs.
• Reads and interprets electronic circuit diagrams, function block diagrams, specifications, engineering drawings, and service manuals.
• Tunes or adjusts equipment and instruments to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception, according to specifications, manuals, and drawings.
• Keeps records of work orders and test and maintenance reports.
• Disassembles entertainment equipment and repairs or replaces loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

• You would often handle loads up to 10 lbs., sometimes up to 20 lbs. You might do a lot of walking or standing, or you might sit but use your arms and legs to control machines, equipment or tools.
• Exposure to pollutants, gases, dust, fumes, odors, poor ventilation, etc.
• Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
• Work in this occupation requires being outside most of the time
• Work in this occupation involves standing more than one-third of the time

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

• Identifying color and seeing differences in color, including shades and brightness
• Seeing clearly at a distance
• Detecting sounds and hearing the differences between sounds of different pitch and loudness
• Seeing clearly up close
• Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
• Identifying and understanding the speech of another person

Work Hours and Travel

• Regular working hours and limited travel