maintenance worker
Facility upkeep person
A maintenance worker performs upkeep and repairs on buildings, equipment, or grounds.
The term covers a range of tasks—fixing plumbing, replacing light fixtures, patching walls, mowing lawns—depending on the setting.
The maintenance worker came to fix the broken heater.
In apartment complexes and office buildings, maintenance workers handle day-to-day issues that keep facilities functioning.
- janitorBuilding cleaner and maintainer
- handymanVersatile home repairer
- repairmanOne who mends machinery
- custodianGuardian of a place
- building superProperty's live-in caretaker
fix · wrench · toolbelt · overalls · tool belt · ladder · boiler room · boiler · plumber · electrician · work order · caretaker · mop · mop bucket · bucket · basement · utility closet · furnace
- jobsdoctor, administrator, lawyer, teacher, nurse
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- employeesassistant, associate, intern, trainee, temp
- facility workersjanitor, custodian, building superintendent, building super, school janitor
- factory workersfactory hand, machine operator, assembler, welder, machinist
- government jobscivil servant, civil servants, federal jobs, public servant, government jobs
maintenance workervandal
Willful property destroyer
saboteur · destroyer · wrecker · arsonist · demolition crew
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