Job Description:

• 1) Assembles and installs electric and hydraulic freight and passenger elevators, escalators, and dumbwaiters, determining layout and electrical connections from blueprints: Studies blueprints and lays out location of framework, counterbalance rails, motor pump, cylinder, and plunger foundations.

• 2) Drills holes in concrete or structural steel members with portable electric drill.

• 3) Secures anchor bolts or welds brackets to support rails and framework, and verifies alignment with plumb bob and level.

• 4) Cuts prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other elevator components to specified dimensions, using acetylene torch, power saw, and disk grinder.

• 5) Installs cables, counterweights, pumps, motor foundations, escalator drives, guide rails, elevator cars, and control panels, using handtools.

• 6) Connects electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.

• 7) Installs safety and control devices.

• 8) Positions electric motor and equipment on top of elevator shaft, using hoists and cable slings.

• 9) May be designated according to type of equipment installed as Elevator Constructor, Electric; Elevator Constructor, Hydraulic; Escalator Constructor.