Also called: Material Handling Equipment Technician, Lift Truck Mechanic
Repairs and maintains forklifts, pallet jacks and warehouse lift trucks, often driving a service van between warehouses.
You start at a distribution center fixing an electric reach truck's hydraulic leak, then drive to a lumber yard to replace a propane forklift's mast chain. Warehouses can't move product without you.
Estimated from BLS mobile heavy equipment mechanics.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Diesel or industrial equipment training, or on-the-job training with a dealer.
Ways in: Trade school, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Diesel Technology, Industrial Maintenance.
Growing faster than average (about 6% over 10 years). Mobile heavy equipment mechanics overall.
Low risk for 10 years. More warehouse automation means more lifts and robots to repair; service work stays hands-on.
Classes: Auto or diesel CTE, Electrical CTE.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-3042.
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