LO
Auto mechanic / vehicle technician — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Rail Car Repairers · Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists · Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers · Motorcycle Mechanics · Engine and Other Machine Assemblers · Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians · Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door · Automotive Engineering Technicians
In the official classification#
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 3: medium preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 49-3023.00 (Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- TroubleshootingVery important
- RepairingVery important
- Equipment MaintenanceVery important
- Operations MonitoringImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- InstallationImportant
- Operation and ControlImportant
- Quality Control AnalysisImportant
Knowledge
- MechanicalExtremely important
- Engineering and TechnologyImportant
- Computers and ElectronicsImportant
- Customer and Personal ServiceImportant
- English LanguageImportant
- MathematicsImportant
Work activities
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or EquipmentVery important
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical EquipmentVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
- Performing General Physical ActivitiesVery important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
- Getting InformationVery important
Abilities
- Problem SensitivityVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Manual DexterityVery important
- Finger DexterityVery important
- Inductive ReasoningVery important
Essential skills
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Active ListeningImportant
- MonitoringImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Active LearningImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 4 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 2 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.