As an electronics technician, you might service the industrial controls on a factory floor. Or you might repair missile control systems for the government. Or you could specialize in cars and trucks, installing and repairing sound and alarm systems.

Wherever your future takes you, you’ll be working with computer programs, automated systems, and, of course, electricity. Many industries today, from manufacturing to telecommunications, depend on electrical equipment -- as well as the people who keep that equipment running safely and efficiently.

This is intermediate level technical electronic and instrumentation equipment repair work troubleshooting, modifying, testing, calibrating, adjusting, repairing, and installing electronic, digital and analogy equipment and monitoring devices. Employees gain experience and learn maintenance and repair on a wide variety of electronic equipment or electronic instrumentation within a digital/analogue computer-automated processing system. Employees in this class are expected to progressively increase their skills throughout their tenure in order to advance to the full performance. Assignments may include rotating shifts, site tours, lifting, climbing and availability for emergency duty. Work is performed under the supervision of a technical supervisor.

 

•    Installs, repairs, maintains, modifies and enhances electronic equipment, such as closed circuit TV's, laser fax machines, computers, microwave communications and microprocessor-based equipment, temperature control and solid state traffic control mechanisms, metal- and gas-detecting devices, modems, radio communications equipment, walkie-talkies, videophones, sirens, recording, regulating and controlling indicators, and other related or similar electronic equipment; performs installation, maintenance, repairs and enhancement modifications to aviation electronic equipment, electronic stadium scoreboards, information and display systems and photoelectric tape recorders.