Garage Door Technician
Overhead door specialists inspect job sites for door clearance, study blueprints, and schematics diagrams, and adjust doors if they malfunction. Using a welder or fasteners, they hang back hangers to ceilings and install tracks, set doors in place, install springs, ensure proper functioning, and calibrate and set electric garage door openers. They may use a welder and shaping machines to fabricate doors for custom openings as well as custom parts to replace broken or worn ones.
Job Duties
– Installing dock seals and bumpers
– Testing treadle operating systems
– Using hand tools to cut holes in floors for door installation, packing lubricant into door closer chambers, and winding large springs.
– Operate lifts and winches and carry springs to the tops of doors and replace worn or broken parts, like springs, openers and brackets.
– Remove or place defective doors or openers and install completely new door systems and openers.
– Complete work orders, order new parts, collect payments, and provide estimates.
Job Requirements
– Valid DL
– Previous construction knowledge
– Read tape measure