Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul small engines used to power lawn mowers, chain saws, recreational sporting equipment, and related equipment.
Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic is Also Know as
In different settings, Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic is titled as
- Chainsaw Technician
- Golf Cart Mechanic
- Lawnmower Repair Mechanic
- Mechanic
- Outdoor Power Equipment Service Technician
- Service Technician (Service Tech)
- Shop Mechanic
- Small Engine Mechanic
- Small Engine Technician (Small Engine Tech)
Education and Training of Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
- Bachelor in Small Engine Mechanics and Repair Technology/Techn
- Associate Degree Courses in Small Engine Mechanics and Repair Technology/Techn
- Masters Degree Courses in Small Engine Mechanics and Repair Technology/Techn
Training Required for Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic in different industries are
- Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
- Motorcycle Mechanics
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Rail Car Repairers
- Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
- Home Appliance Repairers
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Millwrights
- Bicycle Repairers
- Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment
- Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
What Do Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic do?
- Repair and maintain gasoline engines used to power equipment such as portable saws, lawn mowers, generators, and compressors.
- Adjust points, valves, carburetors, distributors, and spark plug gaps, using feeler gauges.
- Reassemble engines after repair or maintenance work is complete.
- Record repairs made, time spent, and parts used.
- Perform routine maintenance such as cleaning and oiling parts, honing cylinders, and tuning ignition systems.
- Obtain problem descriptions from customers, and prepare cost estimates for repairs.
- Test and inspect engines to determine malfunctions, to locate missing and broken parts, and to verify repairs, using diagnostic instruments.
- Repair or replace defective parts such as magnetos, water pumps, gears, pistons, and carburetors, using hand tools.
- Sell parts and equipment.
- Show customers how to maintain equipment.
- Dismantle engines, using hand tools, and examine parts for defects.
- Replace motors.
- Grind, ream, rebore, and re-tap parts to obtain specified clearances, using grinders, lathes, taps, reamers, boring machines, and micrometers.
- Remove engines from equipment, and position and bolt engines to repair stands.
Qualities of Good Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
- Adjustable gap spark testers
- Allen wrench sets
- Automatic center punches
- Ball peen hammers
- Battery terminal cleaners
- Bearing drivers
- Breaker bars
- Cam bearing plug gauges
- Camshaft bearing drivers
- Camshaft bearing pullers
- Carburetor pressure gauges
- Channel lock pliers
- Charging system testers
- Coil testers
- Combination pliers
- Combination wrenches
- Compression testing gauges
- Computer data input scanners
- Cotter pin pullers
- Crankshaft straighteners
- Crowfoot wrenches
- Cylinder bore telescoping gauges
- Cylinder hones
- Dead blow hammers
- Diagonal cutters
- Dial bore gauges
- Dial calipers
- Digital multimeters
- Digital tachometers
- Engine hour meters
- Fixed tip snap ring pliers
- Flat cold chisels
- Flat tip screw starters
- Fluted screw extractors
- Flywheel holders
- Flywheel pullers
- Fuel line removers
- Gear pullers
- Hex sets
- Ignition testers
- Impact drills
- Impact drivers
- Inline spark testers
- Inspection mirrors
- Leakdown testers
- Magnetic pickup tools
- Magneto bearing pullers
- Main bearing plug gauges
- Measuring tapes
- Mechanical fingers
- Mechanics' pick sets
- Metric flex socket wrenches
- Metric socket wrenches
- Mini hacksaws
- Needle nose pliers
- Parallel pin punches
- Penlights
- Personal computers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Piston ring compressors
- Piston ring expanders
- Portable air compressors
- Power drill bits
- Power wrenches
- Ridge reamers
- Seal pullers
- Slot screwdrivers
- Small jet carburetor screwdrivers
- Socket wrench extensions
- Solder guns
- Spanners
- Spark plug gauges
- Spark plug hole taps
- Spark plug socket wrenches
- Spark plug wrenches
- Speed handles
- Standard flex socket wrenches
- Standard socket wrenches
- Starter clutch wrenches
- Starter punches
- T handle hex wrenches
- Taper feeler gauges
- Tapered hand files
- Temperature guns
- Test lights
- Torque adapters
- Torque wrenches
- Torx bit sets
- Valve grinders
- Valve guide reamers
- Valve refacing tools
- Valve seat cutting tools
- Valve spring compressors
- Vise grip pliers
- Wire crimpers
- Wire cutters
- Wire strippers
- Wireless tachometers
- Work vans
- Z benders
Technology Skills required for Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic
- Ideal Computer Systems Ideal OPE
- Land & Sea DYNO-MAX
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- RepairTRAX
- Sale processing software
- Smart Equipment Repair
- VersaDyne small engine test system
- Web browser software