Automotive Body and Related Repairers
Repair and refinish automotive vehicle bodies and straighten vehicle frames.
At a Glance
Automotive Body and Related Repairers earns a median of $51,680/yr with +1.6% projected growth. Typical entry: High school diploma or equivalent. Top skills: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft Excel.
$51,680/yr
+1.6%
15
High school diploma or equivalent
Skills & Requirements
Skills (1)
Knowledge (2)
Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
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.
Abilities (9)
The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Technology (5)
Work Activities (19)
Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
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