Maintenance Supervisor

Career Area: Maintenance, Repair, and Installation

Occupation Group: Maintenance and Repair

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

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

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $50,137

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $52,927

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 Supervisor is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• 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.
• Physical Abilities: Physical Abilities, which refers to the ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs. These abilities often require strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.

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.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Plumbing: Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications.
• HVAC: Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular environmental comfort.

Distinguishing Skills

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

• Hand Tools: A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor.
• Facility Maintenance: Maintenance activities include keeping spaces, structures and infrastructure in proper operating condition in a routine, scheduled, or anticipated fashion to prevent failure and/or degradation.
• Lifting Ability: Requires Lifting Ability, which is the ability to raise and object to a higher position or level, or pick up and move an object to a different position.
• Apartment Maintenance: Working experience of Apartment Maintenance. Tenants, managers and owners of apartment complexes count on apartment maintenance technicians to keep buildings, equipment and land associated with a complex in good repair. An apartment maintenance technician is responsible for tasks such as assembling machinery, fixing electrical switches and ordering supplies, among others.
• 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.

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 Supervisor
• Shop Foreman
• Maintenance Coordinator
• Field Manager
• Facilities Supervisor

Similar Occupations

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

• Maintenance Manager
• Maintenance Superintendent
• Maintenance Group Leader