Construction And Maintenance Technician Family
Career series with 4 positions across 4 levels
New Jersey classifies Construction and Maintenance Technician as a 4-level family, 4 titles in all, built for step-by-step advancement.
Entry is typically through Construction and Maintenance Technician 1, advancing through the ladder toward Construction and Maintenance Technician 4. Pay across the family spans $50,059 to $101,951, around the 31st percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 250 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Transportation.
Construction and Maintenance Technician reports to supervising titles such as Senior Laboratory Technician and Principal Laboratory Technician.
Positions in This Family
- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN 1 (10128) $50,059 - $72,550/year
- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN 2 (10129) $54,673 - $79,523/year
- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN 3 (10131) $60,876 - $88,743/year
- CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN 4 (10133) $69,668 - $101,951/year
What the Construction and Maintenance Technician family covers
Construction and Maintenance Technician is a graded series in the New Jersey civil service classification plan, running 4 title codes across 4 levels. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.
Engineering series in New Jersey are organized by discipline and then by responsibility, so a family usually reads assistant, then senior, then principal, then supervising. Professional Engineer licensure appears at the senior end rather than at entry, which lets the state hire graduates and license them in post. Transportation is the largest employer of these titles by a wide margin, with Environmental Protection, Treasury property management and the county engineering offices behind it. Construction inspection titles sit nearby but belong to the regulatory side.
The ladder, ordered by pay
Ordered by what they actually pay rather than by the number in the title, the Construction and Maintenance Technician rungs look like this. Here the numbering happens to agree with the pay order, which is not guaranteed elsewhere in New Jersey's plan.
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 4 — $69,668 to $101,951 (a high school diploma and 6 years of experience)
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 3 — $60,876 to $88,743 (a high school diploma and 4 years of experience)
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 2 — $54,673 to $79,523 (a high school diploma and 3 years of experience)
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 1 — $50,059 to $72,550 (a high school diploma and 2 years of experience)
The distance from the bottom of Construction and Maintenance Technician 1 to the top of Construction and Maintenance Technician 4 is $51,892, an increase of about 104% over the entry minimum.
What each title does
Each title in the family carries its own published definition. These are the opening lines of each one, which is usually where the difference between two neighboring rungs is actually stated.
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 1: Under close supervision of an engineer or higher level technician in the Department of Transportation: (A) inspects complicated aspects of road…
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 2: Under limited supervision of an engineer or higher level technician in the Department of Transportation: (A) performs technically complex work…
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 3: Under general supervision of an engineer or other supervisor, performs one of the following functions: (A) supervises a unit engaged in…
- Construction and Maintenance Technician 4: Under general direction of an engineer or other supervisory official in the Department of Transportation, performs one of the following…
What it takes to qualify
Across the 4 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a high school diploma on 4 of them. Stated experience runs from 2 years at the lowest rung to 6 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.
Every title here carries a license or certification requirement, so the credential matters more than the exam score. On how the jobs are filled: 4 are competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
Who actually employs these titles
250 people appear on the state payroll under 4 of these titles, at 1 agency. Transportation alone accounts for about 100% of them.
- Transportation — 250 employees
Median actual pay varies across the family, from $58,145 for Construction and Maintenance Technician 1 up to $93,825 for Construction and Maintenance Technician 4. Those are medians of what people are really paid, not schedule minimums and maximums.
State payroll only, deduplicated by payroll title; local employers file separately, so a family with local codes looks smaller here than it is. How this is counted.
How the pay is set
The family is split across 2 salary schedules (A-P-R-S and C-I-O), so two titles that look adjacent can be paid from different tables with different step structures. More than one union has members in this family: CWA and IFPTE.
Where these jobs exist
Hiring for this family runs through state service. Departments, commissions and boards fill these titles from eligible lists built by the Civil Service Commission, so the route in is an announcement and a filing deadline rather than a posting you apply to directly. What state jurisdiction means, and a breakdown of who employs what.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Construction and Maintenance Technician, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Construction and Maintenance Technician Apprentice ($45,874 to $66,294, state jurisdiction)
- Supervising Engineer Construction and Maintenance ($105,267 to $155,359, state jurisdiction)
- Supervisor Preventive Maintenance and Construction Human Services ($87,507 to $128,719, state jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor family
- Income Maintenance Technician (local jurisdiction)
- Income Maintenance Technician ($42,397 to $61,027, state jurisdiction)
- Income Maintenance Technician ($42,397 to $61,027, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Construction and Maintenance Technician jobs
How many separate Construction and Maintenance Technician classifications does New Jersey have?
The Construction and Maintenance Technician family holds 4 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Construction and Maintenance Technician paid?
Published salary data for this family runs from $50,059 at the bottom of Construction and Maintenance Technician 1 to $101,951 at the top of Construction and Maintenance Technician 4. Those are schedule figures. Where the title appears on the state payroll, actual median pay is listed on the page above.
Is there a civil service test for Construction and Maintenance Technician?
Yes for most of the family. 4 of the 4 titles are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What are the requirements to become a Construction and Maintenance Technician?
The most common education requirement in this family is a high school diploma, named on 4 of the 4 titles. Stated experience ranges from 2 to 6 years depending on the rung. 4 of the titles also require a license or certification. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.
Which agencies employ Construction and Maintenance Technician staff?
State payroll records show 250 people in this family across 1 agency, with Transportation the largest at 250. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.