Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
Manufacturing · Maintenance, Installation & Repair
Pay and outlook shown for
New workers start near $46,240; experienced workers reach $98,600. About 830 people do this job in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX.
Job outlook
Alamo region (San Antonio and 12 surrounding counties), Texas Workforce Commission projection 2024 to 2034; U.S. figures from the BLS.
- Employment change
- +11.6%
- Openings a year
- 82
- Employed in 2024
- 874
Typical entry education: Postsecondary nondegree award · Training: Long-term on-the-job training
Alamo Colleges programs that lead here
No program is mapped to this career yet. Many careers start from a transfer pre-major or a related program.
Browse all programsSkills this career uses
The skills O*NET rates most important for the job, with how much of each the work needs on a 1 to 7 scale.
- Operations Monitoring3.9
- Repairing3.9
- Troubleshooting3.9
- Quality Control Analysis3.9
- Critical Thinking3.8
- Equipment Maintenance3.8
- Complex Problem Solving3.9
- Judgment and Decision Making3.0
What the work is
Repair, test, adjust, or install electronic equipment, such as industrial controls, transmitters, and antennas.
- Perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks, such as checking, cleaning, or repairing equipment, to detect and prevent problems.
- Examine work orders and converse with equipment operators to detect equipment problems and to ascertain whether mechanical or human errors contributed to the problems.
- Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
- Operate equipment to demonstrate proper use or to analyze malfunctions.
- Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
- Repair or adjust equipment, machines, or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment.
Education people in this job have
Share of workers by highest education, from O*NET surveys. It shows what others did, not what you must do.
- High school or less22%
- Certificate32%
- Associate degree46%
Job zone 3, medium preparation: Training, an associate degree, or a few years of related experience.
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