Role Profile
Maintenance Technician
Typical job description:
Maintenance technicians are responsible for ensuring continuous running of machinery and equipment, organising routine maintenance procedures and any necessary repairs. Maintenance technicians find and correct faults in manufacturing equipment in factories and on production lines. Maintenance technicians may work in either planned or preventative maintenance, or in emergency maintenance.
Maintenance technicians usually specialise in one engineering discipline, but they should be familiar with the mechanical, electrical and electronic operations of the machinery they are responsible for.
Maintenance technicians usually specialise in one engineering discipline, but they should be familiar with the mechanical, electrical and electronic operations of the machinery they are responsible for.
Key Processes:
The exact nature of the work will depend on the size of the employing organisation.
However, it will almost certainly involve:
- planning and scheduling planned and unplanned work;
- diagnosing breakdown problems;
Entry Level:
S/NVQ Level 2
5 GCSE A – C / Standard Grades 1 - 3
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Industry Standard:
S/NVQ Level 3
Competencies:
- Efficiency Orientation
- Tenacity
- Analytical Thinking
- Interpersonal Awareness
- Concern for Impact
- Concern for Standards
- Thoroughness
Knowledge needed for the role:
- be interested in machinery and engineering
- have good practical skills for handling tools and instruments
- have good numeracy skills
- have good communication skills
- have computer skills
- understand engineering drawings and principles
- be able to work in an organised way
- be interested in solving problems
- be a good team worker, but with a degree of initiative
- have normal colour vision
Pay and conditions:
Salaries start between £18,000 and £21,000 for qualified technicians.
Experienced technicians can earn between £22,000 and £27,000 a year.
Senior technicians may earn between £28,000 and £32,000.
Although most maintenance technicians work 37 to 39 hours week, this may include shifts and emergency call-out duties.
The working may be indoors in a factory or production plant, or outdoors checking equipment on a building site.
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