Home Appliance Repairers

What Does a Home Appliance Repairers Do?

Repair, adjust, or install all types of electric or gas household appliances, such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, and ovens.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Record maintenance and repair work performed on appliances.
• 2Bill customers for repair work, and collect payment.
• 3Observe and examine appliances during operation to detect specific malfunctions such as loose parts or leaking fluid.
• 4Talk to customers or refer to work orders to establish the nature of appliance malfunctions.
• 5Refer to schematic drawings, product manuals, and troubleshooting guides to diagnose and repair problems.
• 6Trace electrical circuits, following diagrams, and conduct tests with circuit testers and other equipment to locate shorts and grounds.
• 7Replace worn and defective parts such as switches, bearings, transmissions, belts, gears, circuit boards, or defective wiring.
• 8Provide repair cost estimates, and recommend whether appliance repair or replacement is a better choice.

Required Skills

• Repairing
• Critical Thinking
• Equipment Maintenance
• Troubleshooting
• Quality Control Analysis
• Operations Monitoring
• Speaking
• dESCO ESC
• Intac International Wintac
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Word
• Parts database software
• RazorSync
• Route mapping software