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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Locate fault
  2. Determine job requirements
  3. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
  4. Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
  5. Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
  6. Run built-in test functions and check and review fault indicators error codes and appropriate maintenance records
  7. Reproduce fault symptoms and verify using fault-finding techniques
  8. Isolate faulty equipment and remove from system using appropriate tools and techniques
  9. Check and test equipment using appropriate test equipment and fault finding techniques
  10. Identify faulty component and/or isolate fault cause
  11. Repair/replace faulty components
  12. Repair/replace faulty component in accordance with site/manufacturers' recommended procedures
  13. Refit repaired/replacement components
  14. Refit repaired equipment to system
  15. Check and test systems/equipment for compliance with specifications using appropriate test procedures and equipment

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Equipment includes one (1) or more of the following:

digital hardware

communication

consumer audio/video

electronic appliances

scanning systems

security/fire systems

power supplies

test equipment

Fault-finding techniques include one (1) or more of the following:

signal injection

substitution

monitoring

measurement

heating/cooling

sound

visual

touch

smell

use of inbuilt software and hardware diagnostics

Test equipment includes one (1) or more of the following:

continuity testers

ammeters

voltmeters

cathode ray oscilloscopes

frequency counters

signal generators

digital probes

Components include (1) one or more of the following:

discrete component assemblies

individual components, including:

resistors

switching devices

capacitors

transformers

solenoids

tubes

semi-conductors

transistors

ICs

digital timers

gate arrays

transmitters

converters