Installation, Maintenance, and Repair · Holland code ECR
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers. May also advise customers on recommended services. Excludes team or work leaders.
Also called: Maintenance Foreman, Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, Service Manager, Electrical and Instrumentation Supervisor (E and I Supervisor), Facilities Maintenance Supervisor, Facility Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Coordinator.
O*NET 49-1011.00
At a glance
- US median annual pay
- $79,860
- Middle half earn $62,690 to $101,360. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
- Most common education
- High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
- 54% of workers surveyed by O*NET report this level.
- Preparation needed
- Job Zone 3 of 5
- Medium preparation. Zone 1 is little or none; zone 5 is graduate-level.
What the work involves
The tasks workers in this occupation rate as most important, from the O*NET survey.
- Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
- Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
- Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.
- Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
- Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.
- Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.
- Participate in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures.
- Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.
Skills and knowledge it leans on
Skills
- Monitoring4.0 / 5
- Speaking3.8 / 5
- Critical Thinking3.8 / 5
- Reading Comprehension3.6 / 5
- Active Listening3.6 / 5
- Active Learning3.3 / 5
Knowledge areas
- Administration and Management4.0 / 5
- Mechanical3.8 / 5
- Customer and Personal Service3.7 / 5
- Administrative3.3 / 5
- Personnel and Human Resources3.2 / 5
- English Language3.2 / 5
Importance ratings on O*NET’s 1 to 5 scale. Higher means the occupation depends on it more.
Who tends to enjoy it
How strongly this occupation draws on each of the six Holland interest types, which is the same profile the career interests test compares you against.
- Realistic52
- Investigative12
- Artistic0
- Social43
- Enterprising83
- Conventional63
The same work abroad
Other countries classify jobs differently, so these are the closest matches through the international ISCO-08 standard, not exact equivalents.
European occupation titles (ESCO)
- service manager · DE Service-Manager/Service-Managerin · FR responsable service clients
- garage manager · DE Werkstattleiter/Werkstattleiterin · FR chef de centre de réparation automobile
- maintenance and repair engineer · DE Wartungsingenieur/Wartungsingenieurin · FR ingénieur maintenance/ingénieure maintenance
- industrial maintenance supervisor · DE Leiter Instandhaltung/Leiterin Instandhaltung · FR chef d’équipe de maintenance industrielle
- precision mechanics supervisor · DE Produktionsleiter Feinwerkmechanik/Produktionsleiterin Feinwerkmechanik · FR superviseur en mécanique de précision/superviseuse en mécanique de précision
- electrical supervisor · DE Aufsichtskraft Elektroinstallation · FR chef d’équipe électricien/chef d’équipe électricienne
Closest UK occupation groups (SOC 2020)
- Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services (1163)8,000 employed
- Travel agency managers and proprietors (1225)10,400 employed
- Garage managers and proprietors (1252)17,700 employed
Employment is the UK Annual Population Survey for April 2025 to March 2026, all workers in the group, which can be broader than this one occupation.
Pay across Europe, for the whole group
Median annual earnings of all employees in “Technicians and associate professionals”. This is the broad ISCO group this occupation falls in, not the occupation itself, so treat it as context for the wage level, not as a salary for this job.
| Country | Median pay |
|---|---|
| Belgium | €50,992 |
| Austria | €46,986 |
| Germany | €44,473 |
| Netherlands | €42,448 |
| Ireland | €41,613 |
| Sweden | €41,155 |
| Italy | €34,882 |
| France | €34,816 |
| Spain | €29,757 |
| Portugal | €18,080 |
| Poland | €12,108 |
Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey, businesses with ten or more employees outside public administration, in euro and not adjusted for the cost of living. Reference years differ between sources: the US, Japan and Europe figures on this page come from different survey years, so compare them as rough levels, not to the euro or yen.
Exposure to AI
This occupation sits in the middle third of the 774 occupations scored, with an exposure score of -0.02. The scores are standardized across those occupations, so 0 is the average and a score of 1 is about one standard deviation above it.
Our note on reading it: the dataset links AI applications to the abilities that occupations require, so the score reflects overlap between the two. It is a comparison between occupations, not a forecast about jobs. It does not say whether exposure means tasks are replaced or workers get more done with the tools, and it says little about one employer or one role.
Source: Felten, E., Raj, M., & Seamans, R. (2021). Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses. Strategic Management Journal, 42(12), 2195-2217. Matched to this page by 6-digit SOC code (49-1011).
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