Occupation Atlasinstrument technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/72f4abfe-5337-49be-b9b8-32096fc2ca1f
instrument technician
Instrument technicians assist and support musicians before, during and after the performance to ensure the instruments and the connected equipment, the backline, are setup properly. They maintain, check, tune and repair instruments and assist with quick changes.
Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCARealistic · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic5.20
- C Conventional4.58
- A Artistic3.24
- I Investigative2.74
- S Social1.97
- E Enterprising1.87
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Audio and Video Technicians (27-4011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (26)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adapt to artists' creative demands
- assemble performance equipment
- draw up instrument setup
- maintain musical instruments
- maintain sound equipment
- manage consumables stock
- perform soundchecks
- prepare instruments for performance
- prepare personal work environment
- prevent technical problems of musical instruments
- prevent undesired changes to sound design
- repair musical instruments
- safeguard artistic quality of performance
- set up equipment in a timely manner
- store performance equipment
- translate artistic concepts to technical designs
- tune instruments on stage
- understand artistic concepts
- use communication equipment
- use personal protection equipment
- use technical documentation
- work ergonomically
- work safely with chemicals
- work safely with machines
- work safely with mobile electrical systems under supervision
- work with respect for own safety
Optional (12)
- advise client on technical possibilities
- develop professional network
- document your own practice
- keep personal administration
- manage personal professional development
- organise resources for artistic production
- prepare sound equipment on stage
- prevent fire in a performance environment
- rewire electronic musical instruments
- tune keyboard music instruments
- tune stringed musical instruments
- tune up wireless audio systems
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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