Electrical Fitter
What the work is
Fabricates, services and repairs electrical equipment, such as motors, transformers and switchboards. May work on rail signalling infrastructure.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Carries out electrical fitting and assembling works, including placing, aligning and adjusting for heavy current equipment and machines, or fabricates parts for such equipment
- Installs, modifies or repairs electrical machines and equipment, such as motor starters, motors, controllers, switchgear, switchboards, busbars, transformers, control panels and defence systems
- Interprets and uses electrical specifications, wiring and circuit diagrams, plant schematics, schedules and specifications to undertake electrical wiring work associated with assembling, maintaining, terminating or altering the wiring between electrical components within plant or machinery
- Inspects, tests, commissions, maintains and services electrical systems, machines, equipment and components
- Installs and maintains meters, instruments, relays and protection equipment
- Performs isolations - energy lock out/tag out procedures
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a small electrical contracting business working on homes and shops. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- You trace a fault nobody else could find, and the lights come back on
- A clean finished job that you know is safe and that you can be proud of
- A grateful customer who gets their shop back open before the weekend
Hard days
- Crawling through a hot roof space in the middle of summer
- A customer pushing you to cut a corner because they are in a hurry
- A fault that keeps coming back, with the clock and the budget both running
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 381232, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.