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Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assembler
OFO Code: 721201
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 721201
- Occupation
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assembler
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS
- Unit group
- 7212 · Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
Official description
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers assemble or modify, according to strictly laid down procedures, components of electrical, electromechanical and electronic equipment.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Etcher (Printed Circuit Board), Television Assembler, Armature Assembler, Telephone Assembler, Electronic Equipment Assembler, Electrical Equipment Assembler, Electromechanical Equipment Assembler
- Inspecting and testing completed components and assemblies, wiring installations and circuits and rejecting faulty assembly components
- Reviewing work orders, specifications, diagrams and drawings to determine materials needed and assembly instructions
- Operating wire-coiling machines to wind wire coils used in electrical equipment and components such as registers, transformers, armature wires, electric motors and generators
- Assembling component parts and electrical and electronic systems and positioning, aligning and fastening units to assemblies, sub-assemblies, or frames using hand or power tools, soldering and micro-welding equipment
- Recording production and operational data on specified forms
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.