Most maintenance technicians list "plumbing," "hvac," and "hand tools" as skills on their resumes. We go into more details on the most important maintenance technician responsibilities here:
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Before becoming a maintenance technician, 15.3% earned their bachelor's degree. When it comes down to graduating with a master's degree, 1.4% maintenance technicians went for the extra education. If you're wanting to pursue this career, it may be possible to be successful with a high school degree. In fact, some maintenance technicians have a college degree. But about one out of every two maintenance technicians didn't attend college at all.
Those maintenance technicians who do attend college, typically earn either electrical engineering technology degrees or electrical engineering degrees. Less commonly earned degrees for maintenance technicians include business degrees or industrial technology degrees.
Once you're ready to become a maintenance technician, you should explore the companies that typically hire maintenance technicians. According to maintenance technician resumes that we searched through, maintenance technicians are hired the most by Bridgestone, Old Dominion Freight Line, and PULS. Currently, Bridgestone has 1,312 maintenance technician job openings, while there are 1,009 at Old Dominion Freight Line and 849 at PULS.
But if you're interested in companies where you might earn a high salary, maintenance technicians tend to earn the biggest salaries at Anheuser-Busch, ACCO Brands, and Ferguson Enterprises. Take Anheuser-Busch for example. The median maintenance technician salary is $80,840. At ACCO Brands, maintenance technicians earn an average of $76,971, while the average at Ferguson Enterprises is $74,201. You should take into consideration how difficult it might be to secure a job with one of these companies.
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Some other companies you might be interested in as a maintenance technician include Us Navy, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and IBM. These three companies were found to hire the most maintenance technicians from the top 100 U.S. educational institutions.
In general, maintenance technicians fulfill roles in the real estate and manufacturing industries. While employment numbers are high in those industries, the maintenance technician annual salary is the highest in the manufacturing industry with $50,146 as the average salary. Meanwhile, the automotive and transportation industries pay $49,546 and $48,073 respectively. This means that maintenance technicians who are employed in the manufacturing industry make 16.4% more than maintenance technicians who work in the real estate Industry.