About This Career

Installs, services, or repairs automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.

This career is part of the Architecture and Construction cluster Maintenance/Operations pathway.

A person in this career:

• Winds large springs with upward motion of arm.
• Adjusts doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or makes simple adjustments to electric openers.
• Carries springs to tops of doors, using ladders or scaffolding, and attaches springs to tracks to install spring systems.
• Repairs or replaces worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.
• Completes required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required.
• Fastens angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.
• Installs door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, or electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment.
• Collects payment upon job completion.
• Inspects job sites, assessing headroom, side room, or other conditions to determine appropriateness of door for a given location.
• Assembles and fastens tracks to structures or bucks, using impact wrenches or welding equipment.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

• You would often handle loads up to 50 lbs., sometimes up to 100 lbs. You will need a lot of strength at this level.
• Work in this occupation requires climbing things such as ladders, scaffold, and poles more than one-third of the time
• Work in this occupation involves use of protective items such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, a hard hat, or personal flotation devices
• Exposure to pollutants, gases, dust, fumes, odors, poor ventilation, etc.
• Conditions are very hot (above 90 F) or very cold (under 32 F)
• Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
• Exposed to hazardous equipment such as saws, machinery, or vehicular traffic more than once a month
• Sound and noise levels are loud and distracting
• Work in this occupation requires being outside most of the time
• Work in this occupation involves standing more than one-third of the time
• Work at heights above 8 feet more than once a month on structures such as ladders, poles, scaffolding, and catwalks

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

• Maintaining a body position that prevents falling when in an unstable position
• Identifying color and seeing differences in color, including shades and brightness
• Moving the arms, legs and torso together when the whole body is in motion
• Judging how far away an object is, or which of several objects is closer or farther away
• Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching
• Seeing clearly up close
• Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
• Identifying and understanding the speech of another person
• Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying objects
• Using abdominal and lower back muscles repeatedly or over time without tiring

Work Hours and Travel

• Overtime work
• Regular working hours and limited travel
• Rotating shift work
• Weekend work