Maintenance Technician

Minimum Requirements

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Tasks

• Design prosthetic and orthotic devices, such as artificial limbs, braces, or supports based on physicians' prescriptions and examination of patients.
• Ensure the information on prescriptions is accurate.
• Fabricate prosthetic and orthotic appliances.
• Fit and make adjustments for proper fit and comfort.
• Repair, build, and modify prosthetic or orthotic appliances or footwear.
• Assemble or build prosthetic and orthotic appliances according to drawings, measurements, and plaster casts.
• Examine and measure patients to develop working sketches of appliances.
• Take body or limb measurements of patients.
• Interpret physician's specifications.
• Make and modify plaster casts.
• Repair and maintain fabrication and laboratory equipment.

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Hand-eye coordination.
• Fast-paced environment.
• Bending, crouching, kneeling.
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking.

Personal Suitability

• Accurate.
• Client-focused.
• Efficient interpersonal skills.
• Interpersonal awareness.
• Judgment.
• Organized.

Experience

• 3 years to less than 5 years.

Other Benefits

• Paid time off (volunteering or personal days).