Automotive Glass Installer Job Description

The Automotive Glass Installer replaces or repairs broken windshields and window glass in motor vehicles.

Job Tasks of the Automotive Glass Installer:

• The Automotive Glass Installer installs precut replacement glass to replace curved or custom-shaped windows.
• The Automotive Glass Installer removes broken or damaged glass windshield or window-glass from motor vehicles, using hand tools to remove screws from frame holding glass.
• The Automotive Glass Installer applies moisture-proofing compound along glass edges and installs glass into windshield-or glass- frame in door or side panel of vehicle.
• The Automotive Glass Installer installs rubber-channeling strip around edge of glass or frame to weather-proof or to prevent rattling.
• The Automotive Glass Installer cuts flat safety glass according to specified pattern, using glass-cutter.
• The Automotive Glass Installer holds cut or uneven edge of glass against automated abrasive belt to shape or smooth edges.
• The Automotive Glass Installer obtains windshield for specific automobile make and model from stock and examines for defects prior to installation.
• The Automotive Glass Installer replaces or adjusts motorized or manual window-raising mechanisms.

Knowledge elements for the Automotive Glass Installer:

• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of equipment, tools, mechanical devices, and their uses to produce motion, light, power, technology, and other applications.
• The Automotive Glass Installer must show their knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, and applications including air, water, material dynamics, light, atomic principles, heat, electric theory, earth formations, and meteorological and related natural phenomena.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of the composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct objects, structures, and buildings.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of numbers, their operations, and interrelationships including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including their relative costs, advantages, and limitations.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including needs assessment techniques, quality service standards, alternative delivery systems, and customer satisfaction evaluation techniques.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of weaponry, public safety, and security operations, rules, regulations, precautions, prevention, and the protection of people, date, and property.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs knowledge of inputs, outputs, raw materials, waste, quality control, costs, and techniques for maximizing the manufacture and distribution of goods.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs some knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs skills in the installing equipment, machines, wiring or programs to meet specifications required to perform the job description.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs skills and knowledge in the product inspection to be able to do the inspection and evaluating the quality of products.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs to be able to determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs the skill to repair machines or systems using the needed tools.
• The Automotive Glass Installer needs to be able to identify the nature of the problem and make the proper adjustments in order to repair or replace the glass.