Maintenance Group Leader

Career Area: Maintenance, Repair, and Installation

Occupation Group: Maintenance and Repair

Salary

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A typical Maintenance Group Leader earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $55,432

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $59,023

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Works on a team of maintenance workers, and provides first-level direction and shift guidance to fellow team members.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Maintenance Group Leader is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Preventive Maintenance: Machine maintenance or the preventive maintenance (PM) has the following meanings: The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or before they develop into major defects.
• Leadership: Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to lead or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Repair: Restoration of a broken, damaged, or failed device, equipment, part, or property to an acceptable operating or usable condition or state.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.
• Predictive / Preventative Maintenance: Working experience of Predictive / Preventative Maintenance. The idea behind preventive maintenance (PM) is that by performing regular maintenance on equipment, you lessen the chances of that equipment failing. It's the same idea as taking your car in for regular oil changes to preempt a total breakdown.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Maintenance Group Leader that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Lean Manufacturing: Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply lean, is a systematic method for waste minimization (Muda) within a manufacturing system without sacrificing productivity.
• Six Sigma: Six Sigma (6) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.
• Maintenance Scheduling: The process used to track actual maintenance history, monitor equipment status and schedule expected maintenance prior to the occurrence of a problem. It should be integrated with the systems used to plan future resource availability and indicate projected downtime.
• Kaizen: Experience creating a culture where everyone working in a department or business is continuously implementing measures that improve the efficiency of the business.
• Equipment Repair: Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) involves fixing any sort of mechanical, plumbing, or electrical device should it become out of order or broken (known as repair, unscheduled, casualty or corrective maintenance).

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Process Engineering: Process engineering focuses on the design, operation, control, optimization and Intensification of chemical, physical, and biological processes.
• People Development:
• Six Sigma: Six Sigma (6) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Maintenance Leader
• Maintenance Team Leader
• Maintenance Group Leader
• Asset Maintenance Leader - Water Business
• Group Leader, Maintenance

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring similar occupations, you may want to research the following job titles:

• Maintenance Superintendent
• Maintenance Manager
• Maintenance Supervisor
• Industrial Plant Engineer
• Facilities Engineering Manager