Maintenance Mechanic

Today more than ever, machines make the world go round. Hospitals. Laboratories. Factories. Power plants. Schools. Stadiums. Shopping malls. All of them are powered by complex mechanical equipment and electrical systems that function as the central nervous systems of facilities and operations.

As a Maintenance Mechanic who installs, inspects, maintains, and repairs such systems, you’re kind of like a mechanical Neurosurgeon, operating on the metal innards of machines — especially the large production machines found in factories and plants, which are your specialty.

Armed with an arsenal of hand and power tools, you spend your days as a Maintenance Mechanic at high heights, in awkward positions, and in confined spaces, working in, around, under, and on top of machines — including motors, generators, pumps, air compressors, and conveyors — in order to tinker with them. This involves such daily tasks as pipefitting, boiler making, insulating, fabricating, welding, machining, repairing, aligning, balancing, installing, and replacing.

Whether you’re installing a new machine or repairing an existing one, you’ll need to be comfortable with reading schematics and blueprints; troubleshooting problems; performing diagnostics; ordering, fabricating, assembling, and testing parts; and performing routine maintenance tasks such as painting, patching, and carpentry — all of which are common responsibilities for Maintenance Mechanics, who are called upon to deal with specialized industry machines as well as standard facilities equipment, such as electric generators, plumbing systems, furnaces, and HVAC systems.

Available for routine maintenance as well as emergency repair, you’re equal parts machinist and medic, doing all the heavy lifting — literally — for your employer so that it can continue to power its business.