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.

Related

fix · wrench · toolbelt · overalls · tool belt · ladder · boiler room · boiler · plumber · electrician · work order · caretaker · mop · mop bucket · bucket · basement · utility closet · furnace

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job function

maintenance workerarchitect

Building design professional

designer · engineer · creator · builder · inventor

relationship to property/assets

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Willful property destroyer

saboteur · destroyer · wrecker · arsonist · demolition crew

occupational status/hierarchy

maintenance workerbuilding owner

One who holds title

property manager · landlord · executive · tenant

Family

maintenance, worker, maintain, maintained, maintaining, maintainer, maintainable, unmaintainable, worked

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G