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Maintenance specialist (FPE): Focus on the professional maintenance of technical equipment and systems

Maintenance specialists work in industrial companies, in the real estate sector, building services, in clinics, homes or other places with technical equipment and systems.

You are responsible for all measures relating to the maintenance of technical equipment and systems. For example, you will carry out inspections and visual inspections, check operating data and repair minor faults or provide workarounds. In this way, they enable safe, constant and long-lasting operation, which is of the utmost importance for the success of a company.

Continuing education, further training as a maintenance specialist is aimed at professionals with basic technical training (Federal VET Diploma) and practical experience in the field of maintenance who wish to take on more responsible tasks and also certain management activities.

Read our information, tips and tests to find out more about the level of awareness, requirements, costs, salary, duration, etc. of continuing education, further training and Federal Professional Examination for Maintenance Specialists.

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Maintenance specialists: sought-after specialists for the maintenance and servicing of technical equipment and systems

Hospitals, clinics, apartment buildings, companies or industrial operations: they all have technical facilities and (production) systems. They are crucial to success or even vital in hospitals, which is why they are expected to function efficiently and smoothly around the clock. From a management and economic perspective, they should also run over a long period of time and be cost-effective.

This is where maintenance specialists come into play: they take measures to maintain technical equipment in buildings and production facilities, e.g. in the event of wear and tear processes such as wear, corrosion, fatigue, ageing or overloading. These are possible causes of malfunctions, damage, production interruptions or even accidents. The maintenance specialist is responsible for preventing these, which is why he/she plays an important role for the economy and society. To this end, he/she evaluates operating data and carries out visual inspections in accordance with the control plans in order to assess the condition of machines and systems and to identify and solve potential problems or weak points at an early stage. He/she uses suitable measuring and testing procedures and organizes reinforcement by suitable experts and specialists as required.

The maintenance specialist has basic knowledge of control and regulation technology. He/she therefore also deals with computer-controlled systems and is responsible for automated processes.

Do you wish to complete continuing education, further training in the field of maintenance? Would you like to take on responsible and varied tasks?

Then take a look at the Federal Professional Examination for Maintenance Specialists. Here on the large Swiss education platform Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch you will quickly find an overview of numerous providers offering preparatory courses for the federal examination.

Order comprehensive course documents for maintenance specialists in PDF format easily, free of charge and without obligation using the inquiry form. If you would like personal advice, you can also use the inquiry form to arrange an individual consultation appointment with the school of your choice. Have you already decided on an offer? Great! Then you can reserve one of the sought-after training places right away.

Questions and answers

In principle, you do not need a specific apprenticeship qualification for the professional examination for maintenance specialists. Access to the federal examination is possible in two ways: with and without a basic technical apprenticeship with an EFZ, i.e. a federal certificate of competence.

If you have completed a basic technical apprenticeship with an EFZ, you must provide proof of an additional two years of technical professional experience in the field of maintenance following your apprenticeship.

If you have another basic education, you have six years of technical work experience, two of which are in maintenance.

If you have a foreign qualification, SERI (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation) will decide on admission to the federal examination for maintenance specialists with a federal certificate.

After training as a maintenance specialist, you can carry out the following activities:

  • Play a central role in efficient and cost-optimized operating processes in the industrial and building services sectors
  • Carry out maintenance work independently
  • Monitoring and evaluation based on control plans
  • Comply with laws and regulations in areas such as environmental protection, occupational safety and contract law
  • Developing practical solutions for maintenance and repair
  • call in the specialists in the decisive case and support them with the necessary information from the specialist area

The professional examination for maintenance specialists with a federal certificate can be repeated up to twice if you fail. However, you do not have to repeat the entire final examination, but only the parts of the examination in which you were unsatisfactory (worse than a grade of 4.0).

You become a maintenance specialist by completing a preparatory course for the professional examination. In seven modules, building services or production facilities are checked, maintained and repaired. You learn how to prevent wear and tear and how to maintain value and ensure the longest possible service life. If you meet the requirements for the maintenance specialist examination, you can take the professional examination following the preparatory course.

The further training course for maintenance specialists with a federal certificate is a part-time course, so it is possible for you to continue working. However, it is usually not possible to continue this in full, as the courses usually take place on a weekday. Occasionally, it is also possible to complete the further training course for maintenance specialists with a federal certificate in the evening and also on Saturdays. However, even with this option, it is not advisable to work full-time, as in addition to the classroom teaching, you should expect around eight hours of self-study per week, which is very intensive, especially during the exam preparation period. Please discuss the time options directly with the schools and think through how high your learning and workload can realistically be in order to remain productive.

Yes, you may be excluded from the professional examination for maintenance specialists if you do not comply with the rules. For example, if you knowingly and deliberately provide false information about the admission requirements or try to deceive the examination board in other ways.
Furthermore, you will be excluded from the final examination if, for example, you use unauthorized aids, grossly violate the examination discipline or try to deceive the experts.

The salary of a maintenance specialist is between 55,853 and 93,000 francs. The average gross annual salary is 75,140 francs. With 13 monthly salaries, this would correspond to a monthly salary of 5,780 francs after training as a maintenance specialist.

Depending on the course model chosen, the maintenance specialist training with a federal certificate, including the professional examination, lasts between one and one and a half years.

The following modules are required for the maintenance specialist examination:

  • System operation
  • Maintenance
  • Security
  • Documentation
  • Communication
  • Logistics / Organization / Procurement / Disposal
  • Cost and performance control

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sfb is one of the leading schools for technical training and continuing education, further training in Switzerland. A wide range of courses and training programs are offered at 8 different locations throughout Switzerland. The focus is on practical relevance and state-of-the-art teaching methods.
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Strengths: 50 years of experience ▪ 8 locations ▪ Also near you ▪ Practice-oriented learning ▪ Modern teaching methods ▪ High success rates ▪ Close to the needs of the economy.
Region: Aargau, Bern, Ostschweiz, Westschweiz, Zentralschweiz, Zürich
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With our unique practical laboratory, we not only teach theory in the classroom, but also put it into practice. We provide support at eye level and deliver practical experience for everyday working life as well as a trusting learning environment in which individual strengths are encouraged and joint successes are celebrated.

Our courses: Head of Facility Management and Maintenance (best success rate of all training institutes and best individual performance in the 2024 federal examination), maintenance specialists and janitors with Federal Diploma of Higher Education, service technology ventilation and air conditioning, Art. 15/14 NIV and various recognized refresher seminars for license holders.

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Strengths: Best success rate of all educational institutes on the Facility Management 2024 exam, lecturers with experience from everyday work, high success rate on federal exams, practical laboratory, free parking spaces
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The Weiterbildungszentrum Lenzburg (wbz) is a professional course and training provider in the fields of automotive engineering, facility management and maintenance, caretaking, woodworking (carpenters, joiners), hotel housekeeping, maintenance, mechanical engineering/automation, metal construction, solar technology and plant services. Interested parties can find further courses in the areas of vocational training, leadership and personality, other areas of expertise and PC courses (ECDL = European Certificate of Digital Literacy).
The Lenzburg Training Center (wbz), which is certified in accordance with ISO 21001:2018, is part of the Lenzburg Vocational School (BSL).
Around 1,300 adults attend our courses every year.
Strengths: In the continuing education sector since 1988, above-average success rate, qualified & committed instructors, practice-oriented teaching, top infrastructure, two restaurants, parking garage, directly on the A1.
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