Also called: Parking Revenue Control Technician, Parking Gate Technician
Installs and repairs parking garage gates, pay stations, ticket machines and plate-reading cameras.
A hospital garage gate is stuck and cars are backing up into the street. You reset the gate arm, replace a faulty loop sensor in the pavement, and fix a pay station that keeps rejecting credit cards.
Estimated; field service with on-call shifts.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Electronics certificate or on-the-job training.
Ways in: Certification, On-the-job training, 2-year college. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Electronics Technology, Computer Networking.
Growing faster than average. Ticketless and plate-recognition systems are replacing old gates.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Apps and cameras remove some machines, but fixing gates and readers stays hands-on.
Classes: Electronics, Computer networking, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-2097.
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