Electric motor repairers need to:

Communicate

• Listen to others and ask questions.
• Understand written information.
• Understand spoken information.
• Speak clearly so listeners can understand.
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• Read and understand work-related materials.

Reason and Problem Solve

• Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Analyze ideas and use logic to determine their strengths and weaknesses.
• Recognize the nature of a problem.
• Follow guidelines to arrange objects or actions in a certain order.
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• Use reasoning to discover answers to problems.
• Combine several pieces of information and draw conclusions.
• Judge the costs and benefits of a possible action.
• Make sense of information that seems without meaning or organization.
• Develop rules that group items in various ways.
• Recognize when important changes happen or are likely to happen in a system.
• Concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task.

Work with Things

• Repair machines or systems.
• Determine the causes of technical problems and find solutions for them.
• Maintain equipment on a routine basis. Determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
• Inspect and evaluate the quality of products.
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• Determine the tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Watch gauges, dials, and output to make sure a machine is working properly.
• Operate and control equipment.
• Install equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.

Perceive and Visualize

• Imagine how something will look if it is moved around or its parts are rearranged.
• Identify a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in distracting material.
• Quickly and accurately compare letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns.