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O*NET detailed work activityConnect electrical components or equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
17 jobs24 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Connect components or supply lines to equipment or tools, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 24 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Connect electrical systems to outside power sources, and activate switches to test the operation of appliances or light fixtures.
- Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment.
- Splice wires with knives or cutting pliers, and solder connections to fixtures and equipment.
- Install watt-hour meters and connect service drops between power lines and consumers' facilities.
- Splice or solder cables together or to overhead transmission lines, customer service lines, or street light lines, using hand tools, epoxies, or specialized equipment.
- Splice wires with knives or cutting pliers, and solder connections to fixtures, outlets, and equipment.
- Lay out and connect electrical wiring between controls and equipment, according to wiring diagrams, using electrician's hand tools.
- Route and connect cables and lines to switches, switchboard equipment, and distributing frames, using wire-wrap guns or soldering irons to connect wires to terminals.
- Measure, cut, and install frameworks and conduit to support and connect wiring, control panels, and junction boxes, using hand tools.
- Disconnect voltage regulators, bolts, and screws, and connect replacement regulators to high-voltage lines.
- Set in and secure floor treadles for door-activating mechanisms, and connect power packs and electrical panelboards to treadles.
- Place intercept circuits on terminals to handle vacant lines in central office installations.
- Splice and connect cables from meters or current transformers to pull boxes or switchboards, using hand tools.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Adjust, connect, or disconnect wiring, piping, tubing, and other parts, using hand or power tools.
- Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.
- Clean, tin, and splice corresponding conductors by twisting ends together or by joining ends with metal clamps and soldering connections.
- Insert plugs into receptacles and bolt or screw leads to terminals to connect equipment to power sources, using hand tools.
- Repair circuits, wiring, and soldering, using soldering irons and hand tools to install parts and adjust connections.
- Lay cable and hook up electrical connections between machines, power sources, and phone lines.
- Place electrodes in tube ends and heat them with glass burners to fuse them into place.
- Install, connect, or test underground or aboveground grounding systems.
- Connect regulators to test stands, and turn screw adjustments until gauges indicate that inlet and outlet pressures meet specifications.
- Swage fittings onto cables, using swaging machines.
- Connect electrical systems to outside power sources and activate switches to test the operation of appliances and light fixtures.