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Engineer-in-charge Of Maintenance Family

Career series with 5 positions across 4 levels

In New Jersey civil service, Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance names a 4-level progression covering 5 distinct titles.

Entry is typically through Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1, advancing through the ladder toward Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 2. Pay across the family spans $62,090 to $141,386, around the 70th percentile of all civil service job families by top pay. State payroll records show 37 people across the family's titles, most concentrated at Corrections.

Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance is a common next step after Forest Fire Equipment Maintenance Specialist.

5
Positions
4
Career Levels
Salary Range: $62,090 - $141,386/year

Positions in This Family

What the Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance family covers

New Jersey classifies Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance as a 4-level series holding 5 separate title codes. Every title in it is a state title, so the employer is a state department, commission or authority rather than a county or municipality.

Skilled and semi-skilled labor is the part of the classification plan that never moved to a degree. Qualification rests on demonstrated ability, and for a great many of these titles the operative credential is a valid New Jersey driver's license of the right class rather than a diploma. The work is also the most physically specific in the plan, which is why the specifications read as lists of tasks and equipment instead of the general responsibility language used elsewhere. Because public works, water and sewer utilities, parks and school plants each run their own yards, near-identical jobs end up as separate title codes in separate places.

The ladder, ordered by pay

Sorted by pay instead of by title number, the Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance family stacks up as follows. Note that the numbers in these titles do not run in pay order. In this family a lower number sits higher on the ladder, which is a New Jersey convention that catches people out when they read a title list top to bottom.

The distance from the bottom of Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1 to the top of Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1 is $79,296, an increase of about 128% over the entry minimum. 1 of the 5 titles in the family sits on a schedule whose rates are frozen, so the published figure there is the schedule of record rather than a guide to actual pay.

What each title does

The specifications themselves are the clearest guide to what separates these titles. Here is how each one opens.

  • Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 4: Under the direction of a supervisory officer in a State department, institution, or agency, having a relatively small size and moderately complex…
  • Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 3: Under the direction of a supervisory officer in a State department, institution, or agency of moderate size and complex maintenance system, has charge…
  • Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 2: Under direction of a supervisory official at a state department, institution, or agency with a large fairly complex maintenance system, has charge of…
  • Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1: Under direction of a supervisory official in a state department, institution, or agency with a very large and very complex maintenance system, has…

Getting in: the stated requirements

Across the 5 titles we have parsed, the education requirements read as a bachelor's degree on 5 of them. Stated experience runs from 5 years at the lowest rung to 8 at the highest, which is the main thing separating one level from the next.

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

37 people appear on the state payroll under 4 of these titles, at 10 agencies. Corrections alone accounts for about 32% of them.

  • Corrections — 12 employees
  • Human Services — 5 employees
  • Health and Senior Services — 5 employees
  • Treasury — 5 employees
  • Military and Veterans Affairs — 3 employees
  • Motor Vehicle Commission — 2 employees

Those are the 6 largest of 10 agencies employing this family.

Median actual pay varies across the family, from $98,816 for Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 3 up to $127,826 for Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1. 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 3 salary schedules (A-P-R-S, M, and M-Represented), 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 IBEW.

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

Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.

Families next to this one

New Jersey's classification plan links families by shared terminology and by the routes people actually take between them. These sit closest to Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance.

Common questions about Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance jobs

How many separate Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance classifications does New Jersey have?

The Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance family holds 5 title codes arranged across 4 levels. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.

How much is an Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance paid?

Published salary data for this family runs from $62,090 at the bottom of Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1 to $141,386 at the top of Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1. 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 Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance?

Yes for most of the family. 4 of the 5 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 an Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance?

The most common education requirement in this family is a bachelor's degree, named on 5 of the 5 titles. Stated experience ranges from 5 to 8 years depending on the rung. Read the individual specification for the exact wording, including any experience substitution.

Which agencies employ Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance staff?

State payroll records show 37 people in this family across 10 agencies, with Corrections the largest at 12. Local government employers are not covered by that extract.

Is Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 1 higher or lower than Engineer-in-Charge of Maintenance 3?

In this family the lower number is the more senior title. New Jersey's level numbering does not run in pay order, and reading the titles by number alone will give you the ladder upside down. The list above is sorted by what each title actually pays.