Profession automotive battery technician

Automotive battery technicians assemble, install, inspect, maintain and repair batteries in motor vehicles. They use electrical test equipment to confirm good working condition after installation. They evaluate batteries to determine the nature of power problems. They also prepare old batteries for disposal.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Investigative
• Enterprising / Conventional
• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Battery chemistry

  The different battery types according to the representative chemical components used in the anode or the cathode such as zinc-carbon, nickel-metal hydride, lead-acid, or lithium-ion.

• Battery fluids

  The characteristics and properties of battery fluids.

• Battery components

  The physical components, such as wiring, electronics and voltaic cells that can be found in batteries. The components vary according to size and type of battery.

• Chemical products

  The offered chemical products, their functionalities, properties and legal and regulatory requirements.

Skills

• Read standard blueprints

  Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.

• Use technical documentation

  Understand and use technical documentation in the overall technical process.

• Apply health and safety standards

  Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.

• Operate battery test equipment

  Operate equipment used for battery testing, such as a soldering iron, a battery tester, or a multimeter. Detect flaws affecting the battery's performance, test the battery's capacity for accumulating charge, or test its voltage output.

• Wear appropriate protective gear

  Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB