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Industrial Maintenance

Industrial maintenance

If you’re looking to start a new career or are a veteran, an industrial maintenance program is your opportunity to be trained in a growing technology.

This major and certificate – developed through a collaboration with Stark State College and area manufacturing companies such as Alcoa – prepares you with essential skills for front-line industrial maintenance personnel in a variety of jobs, including

  • maintaining, troubleshooting and improving existing complex machines and industrial systems
  • systems integration management, including conveying systems, multi-axis machines, robotic arms, and hydraulic and pneumatic lifts
  • technology integration and process improvement by updating robust systems currently in place with newer technology.

Even though industrial maintenance mechanics earn a median hourly wage of more than $20, there is a lack of qualified candidates to fill open employment opportunities, and demand is growing.

In Ohio and surrounding states, for example, demand for skilled industrial maintenance workers has grown 232% from 2010-2016 while demand increased 160% nationally.*

With hands-on experience and training, you’ll have an opportunity for internships and job placement opportunities throughout Ohio.

*Bureau of Labor Market Information Office of Workforce Development, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services

Your pathway to a degree

You can start with an industrial maintenance certificate, taking classes that directly apply to the associate degree in industrial maintenance.

Industrial maintenance certificate

Associate degree

Student outcomes

Program scholarships

There are several engineering scholarships available for Stark State engineering students. For specific scholarship information please visit our scholarships page.


 

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