maintanance test?

Question

The test you have to take for a maintanance position. Te test you take before you get hired.

Answer 1

Is this a question?
Depending on what type of maintenance position you are applying for there will certainly be a test. If you want to work on medical equipment or in the semiconductor industry the tests are significant.

Answer 2

You best bet to get in maintenance is to either enroll in a Technical College, or get in an apprenticeship school. Here are the reasons why:

If your are applying for an electrician's position electrical / electronics test. Unless you've had at least four years of school and experience (apprenticship school, College level in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Techology, Electro Mechnical at Technical College etc,) you will most likely not pass it. If you do by chance pass it you will be lucky you don't get killed by electrocution the first month on the job.
A lot of your work is done on live circuits of 480 VAC 110VAC line voltage when troubleshooting. In fact it is not place for a three wire construction electrician either. Most electricians that get killed in plants are three wire construction electricians that get hired as maintenance electricians. They simply do not know it nor have had the experience needed to work live circuits safely.

If it is a combined crafts test it will not only include the Electrical/Electronics but also mechanics as well. You will need mechanical in addition to Electrical/ Electronics, plus instrumentation.

If it is strictly mechanical then you are going to need to know how to weld since mechanics in most plants now days also do the welding.
In the mechanical test you will need to have a good working knowledge of Hydrulics, pneumatics, gears, seals, bearings, aligning machines, pullys, belts, Tearing down and rebuilding gear boxes, couplings, and I did say welding right. You have to be able to weld, Just to name a few things and that is no where near all you will need to know.
Again it you will need at least four years of apprenticeship school, or two years of Technical College plus two years of apprenticeship school. Which will also include safety, and basic electricity.

I hate to be a wet blanket but, in short you are not going to just go in and pass a test for maintenance in most plants unless you have had a lot of experience or schooling or a combination of the both.

Answer 3

As stated, depends on the type maintenance you want to do. many tests are Mechanical Aptitude type.