rolling stock engine tester
ISCO: 3115. Skills: 33. Essential: 19.
Essential skills
- conduct performance tests
- control compliance of railway vehicles regulations
- create solutions to problems
- diagnose defective engines
- electricity
- electromechanics
- engine components
- engineering processes
- evaluate engine performance
- mechanics
- mechanics of trains
- operate precision measuring equipment
- operation of different engines
- perform test run
- read engineering drawings
- read standard blueprints
- record test data
- use technical documentation
- use testing equipment
Supporting skills
- disassemble engines
- engineering principles
- lead inspections
- liaise with engineers
- maintain test equipment
- manage maintenance operations
- operate lifting equipment
- position engine on test stand
- quality assurance procedures
- re-assemble engines
- send faulty equipment back to assembly line
- supervise staff
- supervise work
- write records for repairs