Best Jobs For Former Maintenance Technicians [2023]

It’s tough to be a maintenance technician nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a maintenance technician isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become maintenance technicians in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many maintenance technicians no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former maintenance technicians to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Maintenance Supervisor	3.43%
2	Service Technician	1.5%
3	Technician	1.48%
4	Field Service Technician	1.35%
5	Maintenance Manager	1.26%
6	Mechanic	1.14%
7	Electrician	0.96%
8	Welder	0.95%
9	Machine Operator	0.82%
10	Electronics Technician	0.72%
11	Hvac Technician	0.69%
12	Supervisor	0.67%
13	Owner/operator	0.66%
14	Engineering Technician	0.66%
15	Millwright	0.61%
16	Maintenance Engineer	0.58%
17	Owner	0.57%
18	Mechanical Technician	0.55%
19	Truck Driver	0.51%
20	Maintenance Director	0.49%
21	Facilities Manager	0.46%
22	Customer Service Representative	0.46%
23	Driver	0.45%
24	Project Manager	0.44%
25	Forklift Operator	0.42%
26	Handyman	0.41%
27	Building Engineer	0.4%
28	Team Leader	0.4%
29	Security Officer	0.39%
30	Maintenance Electrician	0.39%
31	Maintenance Worker	0.39%
32	Controls Technician	0.38%
33	Manager	0.38%
34	Sales Associate	0.37%
35	Operations Manager	0.36%
36	Electrical Technician	0.36%
37	Carpenter	0.35%
38	Engineer	0.35%
39	Chief Engineer	0.34%
40	Maintenance Technician Supervisor	0.34%
41	Lead Technician	0.34%
42	Assembler	0.33%
43	Installation Technician	0.33%
44	Operator	0.31%
45	Senior Maintenance Technician	0.31%
46	Machinist	0.31%
47	Facility Maintenance Technician	0.31%
48	Material Handler	0.3%
49	Plumber	0.29%
50	Maintenance Lead Person	0.28%
51	Repair Technician	0.28%
52	Equipment Operator	0.28%
53	Manufacturing Engineer	0.27%
54	Facilities Technician	0.27%
55	Specialist	0.26%
56	Service Manager	0.26%
57	Production Supervisor	0.25%
58	Manufacturing Technician	0.25%
59	Instrument Technician	0.25%
60	Maintenance Planner	0.24%
61	Warehouse Worker	0.24%
62	Stationary Engineer	0.24%
63	Assistant Manager	0.24%
64	Controls Engineer	0.23%
65	Delivery Driver	0.23%
66	Refrigeration Technician	0.22%
67	Field Technician	0.22%
68	Plant Operator	0.22%
69	Sales Representative	0.22%
70	Maintenance Specialist	0.22%
71	Installer	0.21%
72	Foreman	0.2%
73	Painter	0.2%
74	Custodian	0.2%
75	Computer Numerical Controller Machinist	0.2%
76	Industrial Maintenance Technician	0.19%
77	Process Technician	0.19%
78	Self-Employed	0.19%
79	Warehouse Associate	0.19%
80	Maintenance Coordinator	0.18%
81	Sheet Metal Mechanic	0.18%
82	Assembly Technician	0.18%
83	Diesel Mechanic	0.17%
84	General Contractor	0.17%
85	Welder Fitter	0.17%
86	Lead Mechanic	0.17%
87	Mechanical Engineer	0.17%
88	Boiler Operator	0.17%
89	Hvac Mechanic	0.16%
90	General Manager	0.16%
91	Equipment Technician	0.16%
92	Mechanical Assembler	0.16%
93	Automotive Technician	0.16%
94	Industrial Electrician	0.16%
95	Production Manager	0.16%
96	Operations Technician	0.16%
97	Senior Technologist	0.16%
98	Journeyman Electrician	0.16%
99	Laboratory Technician	0.16%
100	Heavy Equipment Operator	0.16%

Most Common Jobs For Former MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a maintenance technician would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former maintenance technicians to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed maintenance technician under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a maintenance technician, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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