Maintenance Helper how-to

How to Learn a Trade While Working as a Helper

Helpers can build careers.

Updated By the Career Education Institute Curriculum Team
Quick answer

Helpers can build careers. In short: pick; tell; take, then complete the remaining steps below.

Step by step

  1. Pick a trade.

  2. Tell your supervisor.

  3. Take night classes.

  4. Ask to shadow experts.

  5. Log your hours.

  6. Apply for apprenticeships.

Safety reminders for maintenance helpers

  • Follow lockout/tagout
  • Wear PPE
  • Use ladders safely
  • Lift with your legs

Helper · Work order · Lockout/tagout · PPE · Apprenticeship · Journeyman: see the full maintenance helper glossary.

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