Maintenance Superintendent

Career Area: Maintenance, Repair, and Installation

Occupation Group: Maintenance and Repair

Salary

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

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $61,001

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $60,805

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Oversees maintenance of a residential or commercial building, manages maintenance staff and directs maintenance tasks.

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 Superintendent 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.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• English: English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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.
• Plumbing: Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications.
• Carpentry: Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.

Distinguishing Skills

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

• 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.
• Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS): Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), also known as computerized maintenance management information system (CMMIS), is a software package that maintains a computer database of information about an organization's maintenance operations.
• Boilers: A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated.
• Industrial Operations Industry Knowledge: Industrial processes are procedures involving chemical, physical, electrical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacturing of an item or items, usually carried out on a very large scale. Industrial processes are the key components of heavy industry.
• Mechanical Maintenance: Working experience of Mechanical Maintenance. Mechanical Technicians carry out planned or unplanned maintenance and repair activities on a wide range of equipment e.g. pumps, engines, turbines.

Salary Boosting Skills

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

• Machinery: Experience working with machinery.
• Process Equipment: A Process Equipment is designed or chosenequipmentperforming or operating a specific processing function and identified with a unique numberthat isincorporated in a finished plant facility.
• Mechanical Maintenance: Working experience of Mechanical Maintenance. Mechanical Technicians carry out planned or unplanned maintenance and repair activities on a wide range of equipment e.g. pumps, engines, turbines.

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 Superintendent
• Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent
• Maintenance Manager And Maintenance Superintendent Heavy Metal Industry
• Superintendent Of Power & Mechanical Maintenance
• Assistant Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent

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

• Maintenance Manager
• Maintenance Supervisor
• Maintenance Group Leader
• Industrial Plant Engineer
• Facilities Engineering Manager