Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer Family
Career series with 1 positions across 1 levels
Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer 1 is one of New Jersey's state civil service classifications.
Qualifying turns on 1 year of relevant experience.
Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer is a single-title classification family: Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer 1 is the only position in it. Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer supervises titles such as Maintenance Worker.
Positions in This Family
What the Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer family covers
In New Jersey's classification plan, Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer stands alone. The family holds one title code rather than a graded series.
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.
Two jobs in one title
Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer is a consolidated title: one position carrying the duties of Senior Maintenance Repairer and Water Repairer at once, held by a single employee expected to do both. They exist because a borough or authority with a single crew cannot justify a separate post per function, so the combined duties get their own classification.
Separately, Water Repairer is its own family of 3 title codes across 3 levels. This consolidation holds 1 code, which is the usual pattern, since a consolidated title is normally created for the one jurisdiction that asked for it. Read the component specifications alongside this one, because the requirements of both halves apply.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer 1: Under direction, performs a variety of the more complex maintenance and repair tasks involved in masonry…
What it takes to qualify
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Experience requirements sit at 1 year wherever they are stated.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
These titles sit elsewhere in the classification plan but share vocabulary with Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer, which usually means overlapping duties or a related eligible list.
- Water Repairer 2 (local jurisdiction) — in the Water Repairer family
- Water Meter Repairer (local jurisdiction)
- Senior Water Meter Repairer (local jurisdiction)
- Water Treatment Plant Repairer (local jurisdiction)
- Sewer Repairer 2 / Water Repairer 2 — in the Sewer Repairer family
- Equipment Operator / Water Repairer (local jurisdiction)
Common questions about Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer jobs
How many separate Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer classifications does New Jersey have?
The Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
How much is a Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer paid?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
What are the requirements to become a Senior Maintenance Repairer / Water Repairer?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 1 year is named where a requirement is stated.