Skilled trades
General Maintenance and Repair Worker in the United States
156 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 55 employers · largest 22% of it
What employers actually ask for
Credentials named in the 156 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.
None. Across 156 postings, no certification or licence was named often enough to call it a requirement. For this role in this market, employers are hiring on demonstrated work rather than credentials — which means money spent on a certificate here is unlikely to be what gets you the interview.
Lower signal for this role
Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.
- OSHA 10-HourOSHA Training Institute1%
- OSHA 30-Hour ConstructionOSHA Training Institute1%
- CDL-AState DMV / FMCSA1%
- Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution2%3 of 156 postingsAccredited institution →
- Journeyman Electrician LicenceState licensing board3%
- Associate DegreeAccredited institution4%6 of 156 postingsAccredited institution →
- EPA Section 608 Technician CertificationU.S. Environmental Protection Agency4%
What the official taxonomy says
O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.
- Post-secondary certificate63%
- High school diploma or equivalent25%
- Some college, no degree7%
Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
O*NET 49-9071.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100
What it pays
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.
Who was hiring
Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.
SpaceX · Walmart · Anduril Industries · Action Property Management · Able Services (ABM) · Boyd Gaming · HelloFresh · Lucid Motors · Relativity Space · Rocket Lab · Bosch · Green Thumb Industries · Harbinger Motors · J&J Snack Foods · Latitude Inc · MAT Holdings · Nimble Robotics · Pearce Services · Redwood Materials · SkillSource · The Mural Group · Cresco Labs · DeAngelo Contracting Services · Home Chef · Live Parallel · McWane Inc · Sila Services · Stem Xpert · Westgate Resorts · 1X · Antora Energy · Astranis · Charlie's Produce · Cogent Talent Solutions · Collabera · Crestwood Behavioral Health · Curaleaf · Divergent Technologies · Equinox · Fanatics Commerce · Hut 8 · Infojini Inc · Innophos · Misfits Market · Otterbein SeniorLife · Phoenix Stamping Group · Qualdoc · Renuity · SBT Global · SpawGlass · Specialized Recruiters · The Black Tux · Ursa Major Technologies · Via · YWCA Seattle King Snohomish
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