Lift Technician at Asset Management Group

Job Responsibilities:

•     Repair and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
•     Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.
•     Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
•     Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.
•     Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.
•     Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
•     Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.
•     Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.
•     Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.
•     Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.
•     Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.
•     Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
•     Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
•     Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.
•     Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
•     Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
•     Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
•     Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.
•     Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• ·         Minimum of OND or Technical College in a relevant field
• ·         1-3 years of experience
• ·         Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.