Maintenance Workers, Machinery

Also called: Maintainer, Maintenance Mechanic, Maintenance Technician (Maintenance Tech)

Career Cluster: Manufacturing
What they do:
Lubricate machinery, change parts, or perform other routine machinery maintenance.
On the job, you would:
  • Dismantle machines and remove parts for repair, using hand tools, chain falls, jacks, cranes, or hoists.
  • Reassemble machines after the completion of repair or maintenance work.
  • Record production, repair, and machine maintenance information.
KNOWLEDGE

Engineering and Technology
  • mechanical
  • design
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
  • manufacture and distribution of products
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • management
SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information
Technical
  • figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work
  • planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment
ABILITIES

Hand and Finger Use
  • keep your arm or hand steady
  • hold or move items with your hands
Ideas and Logic
  • notice when problems happen
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Concern for Others
  • Integrity
  • Self Control
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Management information systems MIS
  • SAP software
EDUCATION


certificate after high school or high school diploma/GED
usually needed
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JOB OUTLOOK


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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.


Salary:
High: $80,770.00
Median: $57,350.00
Low: $37,440.00
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