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2 of 8

Track

Support

Family rungs priced

S1 · S2 · S3 · S4 · S5

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industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

2 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

An entry-to-developing level skilled trades worker who performs routine facility and equipment maintenance tasks under general guidance. At the Support Specialist (S2) level, the role owns a defined queue or customer set, standard issues within known procedures, and drives customer satisfaction for own queue. None.

What this level does

Perform a variety of skilled and semiskilled maintenance, repair, installation and construction tasks across the mechanical, building, motor-equipment and electrical trades
Install and maintain HVAC mechanical systems and components with basic working knowledge of DDC controls, boilers, chillers and central-plant operation
Study and interpret blueprints, diagrams and specifications to carry out multi-step work orders correctly
Recognize when a job deviates from standard procedure and refer non-standard situations to a senior tradesperson
Maintain campus buildings, mechanical, electrical and life-safety systems on assigned work orders

Knowledge applied: Broad knowledge of multi-trade maintenance procedures and building-systems basics, including DDC controls and central-plant components.
Complexity & problem solving: Semi-routine multi-step tasks; recognizes when a job deviates from standard procedure and refers it.
Collaboration & interaction: Follows procedures with instruction on new task types; routine peer interaction on work orders.
Typical experience: 1–2 yrs; some related trades experience.

Skills at this level

Hands-on tool mastery: — Uses, operates and maintains hand tools, power tools and trade machinery safely to perform assembly, installation, repair and inspection work.
Blueprint and Specification Reading: — Studies and interprets blueprints, diagrams and specifications to plan and execute maintenance, construction and renovation tasks correctly.
Building Maintenance: — Performs general and skilled maintenance and repair of campus buildings including doors, hardware, carpentry and life-safety systems.
HVAC and Central Plant Systems: — Installs and maintains HVAC mechanical systems and components with working knowledge of DDC controls, boilers, chillers and central plant operation.
Multi-Trade Proficiency: — Performs journey-level work in one trade and skilled/semiskilled work in a combination of others — plumbing, electrical, mechanical, carpentry and masonry.
Non-Routine Troubleshooting: — Diagnoses and resolves non-routine facility and equipment failures independently, determining root cause and the correct repair method.
Preventive Maintenance: — Plans and performs scheduled inspections and preventive-maintenance activities on equipment and building systems to keep them reliable and compliant.
Safety and Code Compliance: — Applies job-site safety practices and trade codes, and at master level carries sign-off and licensing responsibility for completed work.
Recordkeeping and Reporting: — Maintains routine records and reports of maintenance, repair and inspection work performed on facilities and equipment.
Work Coordination and Sequencing: — Coordinates and sequences multi-trade tasks on a project and, at senior levels, guides the work of apprentices and less-experienced tradespeople.

Model-authored from 18 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.

Pay across the ladder

General — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+7.9%Maintenance and Repair Workers, General · United States

1,418,990 → 1,531,700 jobs

159,800 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 153,607

Growth — new jobs (4%)Exits — backfill (96%)

4% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +3.8%
Growth share of hiring: 4%
Exit / retention pressure high: 96%
Openings / year: 159,800

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$74k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$66k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$61k

Boulder, CO$60k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$60k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$58k

Lexington Park, MD$56k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$56k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $44k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates S2 (S2 — Support Specialist) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: A defined queue or customer set
Autonomy: General supervision; handles standard cases independently
Complexity: Standard issues within known procedures
Impact: Customer satisfaction for own queue
Decision rights: Resolves standard cases; escalates complex
Leadership: None

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from S2 is S3.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Senior Supervisor, Facilities Trades	jf_skilled_trades_general::M2	$110,455†	confident0.06
Maintenance Technician	jf_skilled_trades_general::P2	$72,357†	confident0.06
Maintenance Trades Helper	jf_skilled_trades_general::S1	$37,323†	confident0.06
Senior Maintenance Technician	jf_skilled_trades_general::S3	$49,566†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 49-9071

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

S2

jf_skilled_trades_general::S2

Maintenance Technician

General

no content fingerprint

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: S
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: skilled_trades
Family: skilled_trades_general
Universal level: 2 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

No content fingerprint for this profile.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Electrical · S2review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 49-9071	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)