Glossary
Maintenance Helper Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential maintenance helper terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key maintenance helper vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in maintenance helper training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Alignment
- Lining up parts.
- Apprenticeship
- Paid structured training.
- Helper
- Assistant to skilled workers.
- Housekeeping
- Keeping areas clean.
- Journeyman
- Fully trained worker.
- Ladder safety
- Safe ladder use.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation.
- Parts crib
- Parts storage.
- PPE
- Protective gear.
- Preventive maintenance
- Scheduled upkeep.
- Shadowing
- Learning by watching.
- Spill kit
- Cleanup supplies.
- Toolbox talk
- Short safety meeting.
- Torque
- Tightening force.
- Work order
- Repair request.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Maintenance Helper practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Maintenance Helper training.
Browse terms from every career in our career glossary.