Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer Install, service, adjust, or repair coin, vending, or amusement machines including video games, juke boxes, pinball machines, or slot machines.
Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer is Also Know as
In different settings, Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer is titled as
- Cooler Deliverer
- Field Service Technician
- Fountain Vending Mechanic
- Full Service Vending Driver
- Refurbish Technician
- Service Technician
- Slot Technician
- Vending Mechanic
- Vending Service Technician
- Vending Technician
Education and Training of Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
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 Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
Training Required for Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
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 Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer in different industries are
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Watch and Clock Repairers
- Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
- Home Appliance Repairers
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders
What Do Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer do?
- Fill machines with products, ingredients, money, and other supplies.
- Keep records of merchandise distributed and money collected.
- Collect coins and bills from machines, prepare invoices, and settle accounts with concessionaires.
- Make service calls to maintain and repair machines.
- Inspect machines and meters to determine causes of malfunctions and fix minor problems such as jammed bills or stuck products.
- Test machines to determine proper functioning.
- Contact other repair personnel or make arrangements for the removal of machines in cases where major repairs are required.
- Clean and oil machine parts.
- Record transaction information on forms or logs, and notify designated personnel of discrepancies.
- Adjust machine pressure gauges and thermostats.
- Maintain records of machine maintenance and repair.
- Replace malfunctioning parts, such as worn magnetic heads on automatic teller machine (ATM) card readers.
- Adjust and repair coin, vending, or amusement machines and meters and replace defective mechanical and electrical parts, using hand tools, soldering irons, and diagrams.
- Order parts needed for machine repairs.
- Disassemble and assemble machines, according to specifications and using hand and power tools.
- Install machines, making the necessary water and electrical connections in compliance with codes.
- Refer to manuals and wiring diagrams to gather information needed to repair machines.
- Transport machines to installation sites.
- Prepare repair cost estimates.
Qualities of Good Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
- 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.
- 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.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- 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.
- 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).
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- 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.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- 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.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- 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.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- 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.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- 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.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- 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 Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
- Adjustable wrenches
- Allen wrenches
- Angled screwdrivers
- Automatic teller machine ATM banking machines
- Bullet button wrenches
- Capacitor checkers
- Channel lock pliers
- Claw hammers
- Coin machines
- Commercial coffee brewers
- Computer data input scanners
- Contact adjusters
- Cordless drills
- Cordless power saws
- Credit card readers
- Degauss coils
- Desoldering tools
- Digital multimeters
- Digital ohmmeters
- Digital oscilloscopes
- Digital volt meters
- Dual trace scopes
- Electric circuit testers
- Electric saws
- Electric screwdrivers
- Flat bastard files
- Flat cold chisels
- Flathead screwdrivers
- Hand crimp tools
- High voltage probes
- Juke boxes
- Leak seekers
- Logic analyzers
- Logic probes
- Magnetic extendable tools
- Magnetic nut drivers
- Magnifier lights
- Mini plier sets
- National Television System Committee NTSC pattern generators
- Needle nose pliers
- Non-conductive files
- Palnut removal tools
- Personal computers
- Phillips screwdrivers
- Pinball machines
- Power grinding wheels
- Punch sets
- Razor blade knives
- Rotary tools
- Rubber light bulb removers
- Slot machines
- Small mirror tools
- Snack vending machines
- Soldering irons
- Spring gauges
- T handle allen wrenches
- T handle nut drivers
- Vacuum testers
- Video game machines
- Wire cutting tools
- Wire strippers
- Work lights
Technology Skills required for Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairer
- Email software
- Inventory tracking software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Web browser software