maintenance and repair engineer
Code 2141.8
The maintenance technician (mantenedor o mecánico de mantención) diagnoses and repairs equipment to sustain plant, building or fleet availability. Use this Job Dictionary profile to define industrial/facility maintenance as distinct from pure auto mechanic.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- mechanics
- maintenance operations
- engineering principles
- quality assurance procedures
- engineering processes
Skills and competences
- create solutions to problems
- inspect industrial equipment
- inspect machinery
- maintain equipment
- maintain machinery
- conduct quality control analysis
- conduct routine machinery checks
- perform machine maintenance
- write technical reports
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- troubleshoot
- perform test run
- work safely with machines
- use testing equipment
Transversal competences
- advise on efficiency improvements
- manage budgets
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What to assess for this role
Assess diagnosis, work-order discipline and LOTO safety.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a maintenance technician do?
- Handles breakdowns, runs preventives and documents work to cut downtime.
- Corrective vs preventive?
- Corrective reacts to failure; preventive anticipates per plan. A good technician does both.
- What to assess when hiring?
- MTTR cases, blueprint reading and shift work.
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences