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O*NET detailed work activityMaintain work equipment or machinery
Stays humanHands-on work
23 jobs27 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 Maintain tools or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 27 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Perform regular adjustment and maintenance on timepieces, watch cases, and watch bands.
- Apply safety tags to equipment needing maintenance.
- Fill machines with products, ingredients, money, and other supplies.
- Repair or maintain the operating condition of industrial production or processing machinery or equipment.
- Perform routine maintenance on wind turbine equipment, underground transmission systems, wind fields substations, or fiber optic sensing and control systems.
- Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, such as checking, cleaning, or repairing equipment, to detect and prevent problems.
- Adjust, maintain, and repair tools, equipment, and machines, and assist more skilled workers with similar tasks.
- Create or maintain inclines or ramps.
- Adjust and maintain industrial machinery, using control and regulating devices.
- Fill machines with toners, inks, or other duplicating fluids.
- Maintain or repair specialized equipment or machinery located in cafeterias, laundries, hospitals, stores, offices, or factories.
- Use and maintain the tools or equipment found on commercial vehicles, such as weighing or measuring devices.
- Perform maintenance or repair work on existing tower equipment, using hand or power tools.
- Perform general labor duties such as repairing booms.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Check and maintain diving equipment, such as helmets, masks, air tanks, harnesses, or gauges.
- Repair and maintain gasoline engines used to power equipment such as portable saws, lawn mowers, generators, and compressors.
- Perform preventive maintenance or service, such as cleaning, lubricating, or adjusting equipment.
- Conduct preventative maintenance and repair, and lubricate machines and equipment.
- Adjust, maintain, and repair or replace subassemblies, such as transmissions and crawler heads, using hand tools, jacks, and cranes.
- Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
- Install, inspect, maintain, and repair various railroad service equipment on the road or in the shop, including railroad signal systems.
- Clean and maintain tools, test equipment, and motor vehicles.
- Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.
- Install and maintain geothermal system instrumentation or controls.
- Install and maintain geothermal plant electrical protection equipment.
- Perform routine maintenance on equipment, including adjusting and lubricating components and painting worn or exposed areas.
- Perform routine maintenance on boilers, such as replacing burners or hoses, installing replacement parts, or reinforcing structural weaknesses to ensure optimal boiler efficiency.