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Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians

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Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers. May specialize in maintaining gas, electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or chassis/towing systems as well as repairing generators, appliances, and interior components. Includes workers who perform customized van conversions.

Related: Bus & Truck Mechanics & Diesel Engine Specialists Electric Motor, Power Tool, & Related Repairers Motorboat Mechanics & Service Technicians Motorcycle Mechanics Outdoor Power Equipment & Other Small Engine Mechanics

Industries: Retail Service

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Examine or test operation of parts or systems to ensure completeness of repairs.
Confer with customers, read work orders, or examine vehicles needing repair to determine the nature and extent of damage.
Repair leaks with caulking compound or replace pipes, using pipe wrenches.
Open and close doors, windows, or drawers to test their operation, trimming edges to fit, as necessary.
Open and close doors, windows, or drawers to test their operation, trimming edges to fit, as necessary.
Diagnose and repair furnace or air conditioning systems.
Repair plumbing or propane gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe.
Remove damaged exterior panels, and repair and replace structural frame members.
Explain proper operation of vehicle systems to customers.
Refinish wood surfaces on cabinets, doors, moldings, or floors, using power sanders, putty, spray equipment, brushes, paints, or varnishes.
Connect electrical systems to outside power sources, and activate switches to test the operation of appliances or light fixtures.
Inspect, repair, or replace brake systems.
List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, or diagrams.
Remove damaged exterior panels, and repair and replace structural frame members.
Inspect recreational vehicles to diagnose problems and perform necessary adjustment, repair, or overhaul.
Confer with customers, read work orders, or examine vehicles needing repair to determine the nature and extent of damage.
Confer with customers, read work orders, or examine vehicles needing repair to determine the nature and extent of damage.
Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of toilets or sinks.
Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, or hand tools.
List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, or diagrams.
Reset hardware, using chisels, mallets, and screwdrivers.
Inspect recreational vehicles to diagnose problems and perform necessary adjustment, repair, or overhaul.
Diagnose and repair furnace or air conditioning systems.
List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, or diagrams.
Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers.

Equipment Selection
- Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.
Learning Strategies
- Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.
Instructing
- Teaching people how to do something.
Coordination
- Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
Equipment Maintenance
- Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.
Management of Personnel Resources
- Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.
Systems Evaluation
- Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
Operations Analysis
- Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.
Technology Design
- Making equipment and technology useful for customers.
Installation
- Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.
Operation and Control
- Using equipment or systems.
Judgment and Decision Making
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
Management of Financial Resources
- Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.
Management of Material Resources
- Managing equipment and materials.
Writing
- Writing things for co-workers or customers.
Speaking
- Talking to others.
Service Orientation
- Looking for ways to help people.
Mathematics
- Using math to solve problems.
Social Perceptiveness
- Understanding people's reactions.
Critical Thinking
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
Troubleshooting
- Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.
Time Management
- Managing your time and the time of other people.
Programming
- Writing computer programs.
Operations Monitoring
- Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.
Quality Control Analysis
- Testing how well a product or service works.
Repairing
- Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.
Reading Comprehension
- Reading work-related information.
Science
- Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.
Active Learning
- Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.
Negotiation
- Bringing people together to solve differences.
Monitoring
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
Active Listening
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
Persuasion
- Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.
Complex Problem Solving
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Systems Analysis
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

Fluency of Ideas
- Coming up with lots of ideas.
Wrist-Finger Speed
- Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.
Speed of Limb Movement
- Quickly moving your arms and legs.
Visualization
- Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
Control Precision
- Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.
Manual Dexterity
- Holding or moving items with your hands.
Multilimb Coordination
- Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.
Dynamic Flexibility
- Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Sound Localization
- Noticing the direction that a sound came from.
Far Vision
- Seeing details that are far away.
Speed of Closure
- Quickly knowing what you are looking at.
Time Sharing
- Doing two or more things at the same time.
Flexibility of Closure
- Seeing hidden patterns.
Peripheral Vision
- Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.
Glare Sensitivity
- Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.
Dynamic Strength
- Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.
Reaction Time
- Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.
Depth Perception
- Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.
Speech Clarity
- Speaking clearly.
Gross Body Coordination
- Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.
Speech Recognition
- Recognizing spoken words.
Near Vision
- Seeing details up close.
Perceptual Speed
- Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
Originality
- Creating new and original ideas.
Problem Sensitivity
- Noticing when problems happen.
Static Strength
- Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.
Deductive Reasoning
- Using rules to solve problems.
Inductive Reasoning
- Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.
Category Flexibility
- Grouping things in different ways.
Memorization
- Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.
Selective Attention
- Paying attention to something without being distracted.
Explosive Strength
- Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.
Extent Flexibility
- Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Hearing Sensitivity
- Telling the difference between sounds.
Oral Expression
- Communicating by speaking.
Response Orientation
- Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.
Spatial Orientation
- Knowing where things are around you.
Written Expression
- Communicating by writing.
Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Keeping your arm or hand steady.
Rate Control
- Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.
Trunk Strength
- Using your lower back and stomach.
Oral Comprehension
- Listening and understanding what people say.
Written Comprehension
- Reading and understanding what is written.
Information Ordering
- Ordering or arranging things.
Mathematical Reasoning
- Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.
Number Facility
- Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
Finger Dexterity
- Putting together small parts with your fingers.
Stamina
- Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.
Gross Body Equilibrium
- Keeping your balance or staying upright.
Visual Color Discrimination
- Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.
Auditory Attention
- Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.
Night Vision
- Seeing at night or under low light.

Public Safety and Security
- Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Food Production
- Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
Customer and Personal Service
- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Personnel and Human Resources
- Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
Physics
- Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
Foreign Language
- Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
Communications and Media
- Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
Mechanical
- Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Sales and Marketing
- Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
Fine Arts
- Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Telecommunications
- Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Philosophy and Theology
- Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
Building and Construction
- Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
Law and Government
- Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Design
- Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Sociology and Anthropology
- Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Therapy and Counseling
- Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
Transportation
- Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
Administration and Management
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Mathematics
- Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Administrative
- Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
Economics and Accounting
- Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
Education and Training
- Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Geography
- Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
English Language
- Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
Production and Processing
- Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Computers and Electronics
- Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Biology
- Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
Chemistry
- Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
Medicine and Dentistry
- Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
Engineering and Technology
- Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Psychology
- Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
History and Archeology
- Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Work Experience

No work experience

Training

More than 1 year on-the-job training

Education and Training Opportunities

Washington Annual Salary

57170/yr

Washington Hourly Wage

27.49/hr

Currently Employed

780

Yearly Projected Openings

Realistic: People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They do well at jobs that need:

Attention to Detail
Persistence
Dependability
Analytical Thinking
Integrity
Adaptability/Flexibility

Adjustable wrenches
Air compressors
Air velocity and temperature monitors
Allen wrench
Ammeters
Ball peen hammer
Battery chargers
Brake repair kits
Brake spring pliers
Caulking guns
Circuit tester
Claw hammer
Cold chisels
Combination wrenches
Conduit benders
Crimping pliers
Diagonal cut pliers
Drill bit set
Electrical frequency meters
Electrical jumper cable
Feeler gauges
Flaring tool
GFI circuit testers
Gas detectors
Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
Generator test set
Grease guns
Hacksaw
Hammers
Hand sprayers
Hydrometers
Inspection mirror
Insulated scissors
Jacks
Levels
Linemans pliers
Liquid leak detectors
Locking pliers
Magnetic tools
Manifold ambient pressure sensor
Manometers
Metal inert gas welding machine
Miter saw
Multimeters
Needlenose pliers
Non sparking hammer or mallet
Notebook computers
Pad or keyhole saw
Personal computers
Pipe or tube cutter
Pipe reamer
Pipe wrenches
Plastic welder
Power drills
Power grinders
Power planes
Power riveter
Power routers
Power sanders
Power saws
Power screwguns
Power staple guns
Pressure regulator
Pry bars
Pullers
Punches or nail sets or drifts
Putty knives
Ratchets
Razor knives
Reciprocating saw
Respirators
Retaining ring pliers
Round file
Rubber mallet
Safety glasses
Screwdriver accessories and supplies
Screwdrivers
Scribers
Shielded metal arc welding or stick welding machine
Single gas monitors
Slip joint pliers
Snap pliers
Socket attachments and accessories
Socket sets
Sockets
Soldering iron
Spark plug gap gauge
Specialty wrenches
Squares
Tape measures
Thermocouple probes
Tile cutter
Timing light
Tinners snips
Tire changing machines
Tire pressure gauge
Torque wrenches
Tube wrenches
Tungsten inert gas welding machine
Utility knives
Vacuum gauges
Valve spring compressor
Vehicle lift
Voltage or current meters
Welding masks
Wheel balancing equipment
Wheel chocks
Wheel nut or lug wrench
Wire brushes
Wire-stripping pliers
Wrecking or crow bar

Data base user interface and query software
Electronic mail software
Inventory management software
Office suite software
Point of sale POS software
Spreadsheet software
Web page creation and editing software
Word processing software

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