Ladder logic, a wide variety of 4~20ma controls, touchscreen programming, wiring, conduit, and nothing more than 480 Volts.
$45,000 after a few years experience and $68,000 as now with 20 years experience. You do need to do collateral duty to perform other types of maintenance to keep factories running though. You never get bored. You will still need to be good at welding, basic machine work like mills and lathes, control voltage troubleshooting, and operating voltage troubleshooting.
Oh, I love electronic gadgets too. I think I could have enjoyed doing what you do. The closest I come to doing what you do is working on computer hardware. I have built/rebuilt hundreds of computers. I do more work with software though.
Sign me up! I don’t know where you’re from, but I work with exactly what you just described every day, and the pay tops out at about 40k a year, with experience. Yeah, employers around here have driven down the wage scale that much. That’s why I plan to move out west.