Generation maintenance supervisor - Salary and Career
Utility Production Supervisors

Generation maintenance supervisor - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They plan activities for supervising the production of utilities, analyzing priorities, specifying human resources, materials and equipment, distributing tasks and drawing up schedules and contingency plans. They implement personal, environmental and property security measures, manage administrative services and operational systems. They coordinate equipment maintenance, manage inputs and optimize utility system processes. They qualify work teams. They work in compliance with technical and quality, safety, hygiene, health and environmental standards and procedures.

How much does an Generation maintenance supervisor earn

A Generation maintenance supervisor earns between $1.798 and $9.276 per month, with an average monthly salary of $3.718 and a median salary of $2.922 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 3.846 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Generation maintenance supervisor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 3.718 44.614 929 17
1º Quartile 1.798 21.570 449 8
Median Salary 2.922 35.070 731 14
3º Quartile 7.074 84.889 1.769 33
Higher Salary 9.276 111.309 2.319 43


Professional job categories

  • Workers in the production of industrial goods and services
    • production, capture, treatment and distribution operators (energy, water and utilities)
      • utility production supervisors
        • utility production supervisors

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Main workplaces

Utility Production Supervisors they operate in electricity, gas and hot water services, water collection, purification and distribution and urban cleaning, sewage and related activities. They are employed with a formal contract and are organized by operation teams, under the occasional supervision of engineers. They work predominantly during the day and can work in open or closed places or in vehicles. In the development of some activities, they remain exposed to the action of toxic materials, intense noise, high temperatures, aerodispersions, biological agents and high pressures.


What does it take to work in the field of Utility Production Supervisors

In order to exercise these occupations, incomplete secondary education is required, except for the master (textile and clothing industry) who must have completed this level of education. A basic professional qualification course with different workload is required: more than four hundred class hours, for the master, and two hundred to four hundred class hours, for the finishing, spinning, weaving or knitting foremen. The full performance of the master's activities takes between three and four years of professional experience. For foremen, between one and two years.


Functions and activities of Generation maintenance supervisor

Utility Production Supervisors must:

  • manage administrative services;
  • optimize utilities system processes;
  • manage utilities system inputs;
  • coordinate equipment maintenance;
  • plan work activities;
  • qualify work teams;
  • implement personal, environmental and property security measures;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • manage operating systems;

  • Activities

    • train work teams;
    • develop operating procedures;
    • demonstrate leadership;
    • provide data for budgeting;
    • analyze work priorities;
    • communicate;
    • release equipment for maintenance;
    • require labor to fill vacancies;
    • control utility system inventories;
    • provide technical advice;
    • receive technical visits;
    • control individual supply sheet for personal protective equipment;
    • seek a systemic view;
    • ensure the quality system;
    • test new products and equipment;
    • evaluate employee performance;
    • evaluate the conditions of protective equipment (individual and collective) ;
    • control utility system costs;
    • perform corrective maintenance;
    • issue activity reports;
    • demonstrate visual and hearing acuity;
    • disclose safety standards;
    • monitor utility system;
    • demonstrate creativity;
    • commit;
    • identify training needs;
    • evaluate the efficiency of the maintenance program;
    • develop risk analysis;
    • control process losses;
    • act impartially;
    • prepare technical reports;
    • demonstrate flexibility;
    • provide safe working conditions;
    • schedule downtime for equipment maintenance;
    • develop vacation schedule;
    • follow cipa's recommendations;
    • develop contingency plans;
    • evaluate utility system consumptions;
    • demonstrate ability to delegate tasks and responsibilities;
    • demonstrate critical sense;
    • request protective equipment (individual and collective);
    • inspect utility system equipment;
    • develop training programs;
    • perform technical studies;
    • manage work schedule;
    • preserve the environment;
    • control the performance of equipment maintenance according to plan;
    • distribute tasks;
    • demonstrate initiative;
    • develop action plans for operation and maintenance;
    • specify utilities system inputs;
    • enforce the use of personal protective equipment;
    • demonstrate objectivity;
    • commit to;
    • install utility system equipment;
    • evaluate training;
    • obey mte regulatory standards;
    • control employee attendance;
    • control utilities operating system;
    • implant improvements;
    • request training;
    • commission utility system equipment;
    • ensure resource availability;
    • identify risks;
    • collect technical-operational data;
    • report;
    • control process variables;
    • request materials and services for utilities;
    • ensure availability of utility system inputs;
    • self-control;
    • analyze technical-operational data;
    • inspect outsourced maintenance services;
    • update technical-administrative files;
    • analyze obtained results;
    • specify resources (human, material and equipment);
    • forward institutional information;
    • evaluate new operating procedures;
    • request to hire temporary labor;
    • evaluate utilities system occurrences;
    • check the quality of inputs according to standard;
    • elaborate technical reports;
    • develop work schedule;
    • socialize;


    Sectors that hire Generation maintenance supervisor the most in the job market

    • construction of electricity distribution stations and networks
    • electrical installation and maintenance
    • engineering services
    • maintenance of electricity distribution networks
    • temporary labor lease
    • building construction
    • electric power distribution
    • measurement of electricity, gas and water consumption
    • electric power generation
    • rental of other commercial and industrial machinery and equipment, without operator




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