How to become a Precision-Instrument Maker or Repairer
Official title: Precision-Instrument Makers and Repairers
Precision instrument makers and repairers make, calibrate, repair, maintain, adjust and install mechanical clocks and watches and nautical, meteorological, optical, medical and other precision instruments.
Main tasks
- Make, calibrate, clean and repair timepieces such as clocks and watches
- Make, calibrate and repair nautical and meteorological instruments and equipment, optical instruments, orthopaedic devices and other precision instruments
- Test the accuracy of meters, indicators and other recording and control instruments, and calibrate them
- Assemble instruments and devices such as barometers, control valves, gyroscopes, hygrometers, speedometers, tachometers and thermostats
- Test, calibrate and adjust electronic, mercury, aneroid and other meteorological instruments using voltmeters, oscilloscopes, tube testers and other test equipment
- Repair and install optical instruments such as microscopes, telescopes, theodolites and sextants
Ways in
- Technical college: Technician certificate: Industrial instruments. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 036 工業儀器. Tested at grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$616,000 a year
- Demand for Craft and related trades jobs is projected at about 1,519,000 in 2024 and about 1,515,000 in 2030. (-0.3%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Precision-Instrument Maker or Repairer?
Ways in include: Technician certificate: Industrial instruments.
How much does a Precision-Instrument Maker or Repairer earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$616,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is a Precision-Instrument Maker or Repairer a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change -0.3% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of a Precision-Instrument Maker or Repairer?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026