Tire Repairers and Changers

Overview

Tire Repairers and Changers has a national median salary of $37,710 per year, with +3.4% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a high school diploma or equivalent as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Repair and replace tires.

Work Values

• Support
• Relationships
• Independence

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.
• Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
• Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly.
• Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks.
• Reassemble tires onto wheels.

Work Activities

• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Controlling Machines and Processes
• Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Getting Information
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards

Detailed Work Activities

• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• 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.
• 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.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a high school diploma or equivalent as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a bachelor's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Bachelor's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for a high school diploma or equivalent.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Tire Repairers and Changers:

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