Repair, test, adjust, or install electronic equipment, such as industrial controls, transmitters, and antennas.

Career Studies Certificates in Practical Electrical Technician and Career Studies Certificates in Basic Electronics Technician are available from Lord Fairfax Community College.

Help installation, maintenance, and repair workers in maintenance, parts replacement, and repair of vehicles, industrial machinery, and electrical and electronic equipment. Perform duties such as furnishing tools, materials, and supplies to other workers; cleaning work area, machines, and tools; and holding materials or tools for other workers.

Industrial Maintenance Technicians work in the private sector and are critical to ensure the smooth and reliable operation of the industrial plants and equipment in their industry.  They set out to maintain and repair manufacturing equipment. They help to ensure through the work that they do, that industrial machinery and equipment is maintained at the highest possible level, ensuring the productivity and safety of the entire production team. 

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Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments. Includes precision instrument makers who fabricate, modify, or repair mechanical instruments. May also fabricate and modify parts to make or repair machine tools or maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures.

Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of an establishment in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; boiler making; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.

Lubricate machinery, change parts, or perform other routine machinery maintenance.

Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Intermediate, installer-focus) work with mechanical machinery supported by information technology in dynamic environments using a variety of measurement and computer equipment and tools. They manage complex machines, adjust, find errors, and eliminate them; know the principles of operation of hydraulic, electrical and other devices; and carry out the measurements and interference with the fabrication processes. They know how to use computer programs and control the steering of various processes. Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Intermediate, installer-focus) are able to maintain, listen, observe, perform screenings, and carry a sense of professionalism with staff and any outside parties.

Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Intermediate, installer-focus) work in the installation and maintenance of mechatronics components and systems for manufacturers in the plant construction and engineering sectors, for system operators and in service sectors, and for service providers in a wide range of branches of trade and industry. Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Intermediate, installer-focus) carry out their work at various places, mainly at plant assembly sites, in workshops and in connection with service operations. They are qualified to work autonomously on the basis of technical documents and instructions and carry out their work in compliance with the relevant provisions and safety regulations. They often work in teams. They coordinate their activities with upstream and downstream operations.

Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Intermediate, installer-focus) work to combine electronic, mechanical, computer and control skills at the workplace. They will work with complex high-performance manufacturing systems and are able to analyze, troubleshoot and repair systems to maintain process efficiency. They must understand and analyze the technical specifications of mechatronic systems, subsystems, modules and components; perfo

Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Basic, fitter-focus) work to combine electronic, mechanical, computer and control skills at the workplace. They work with complex high-performance manufacturing systems and are able to analyze, troubleshoot, and repair systems to maintain process efficiency. They must understand and analyze the technical specifications of mechatronic systems, subsystems, modules, and components; perform scheduled and preventive maintenance to detect and prevent problems; use troubleshooting skills to identify and prevent possible problems and failures, and to systematically and intelligently make repairs; incorporate relevant technical literature into the understanding of system operation and coordinate efforts with other technicians involved in installing or maintaining equipment or components; install, repair, adjust, and test equipment and components to ensure that systems function properly; communicate with machine operators, and operate equipment to detect equipment problems, analyze malfunctions, and verify system problems; and observe and incorporate safety standards and regulations required for safe operation of the system.

Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Basic, fitter-focus) are engaged in the assembly and maintenance of complex machines, plants, and systems in the mechanical engineering sector or in organizations which purchase and operate such mechatronic systems. They carry out their work at various places, mainly at plant assembly sites, in workshops and in connection with service operations. They are qualified to work autonomously on the basis of technical documents and instructions and carry out their work in compliance with the relevant provisions and safety regulations. They often work in teams. They coordinate their activities with upstream and downstream operations.

Mechatronics Technician/Engineers (Basic, fitter-focus) apprentices will receive a more comprehensive education than mechatronics technicians with a