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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 interpret results
  7. Reproduce fault symptoms and verify using fault-finding techniques
  8. Identify faulty or defect component/s and/or isolate fault cause
  9. Replace/repair faulty components
  10. Repair/replace faulty component/s in accordance with site/manufacturers' recommended procedures
  11. Re-fit repaired/replaced component/s
  12. Check and test equipment for compliance to specifications utilising correct and 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

sub-assemblies of systems

discrete equipment used in computer, communication, consumer audio/video, electronic appliances, scanning systems, security/fire systems, power supplies and 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

pulse generators

computer and computer software

data analysers

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

microprocessors