S5S5 — Principal Support Specialist
Expert
Principal/Master Equipment Maintenance Technician or Maintenance Specialist (expert technician). Provides highest-level technical leadership.
What this level means
Top support IC: subject-matter authority and program-level support strategy.
- Scope
- Function-wide support practice
- Autonomy
- Sets direction for the support discipline
- Complexity
- Program-level and systemic support problems
- Impact
- Support strategy across the function
- Decision rights
- Authority over support practice and standards
- Leadership
- Subject-matter authority; shapes the practice
- Typical experience
- 8–12 yrs
What you'd do
- Identifies strategic reliability projects and champions innovation.
- Analyzes fleet-wide performance metrics and leads continuous improvement programs.
- Identify strategic reliability projects.
- Lead continuous improvement programs.
- Analyze fleet-wide performance metrics.
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Innovative Thinking
- Strategic risk management
- Enterprise-level analysis
- Visionary leadership
- Continuous improvement
- Strategic reliability projects
- Innovation in maintenance
- Enterprise performance metrics
- Risk management strategies
- Continuous improvement methodologies
- Innovation and vision
- Enterprise Perspective
- Risk Management
What good looks like
- Over 10 years of experience
- Recognized expertise across the plant
Common titles
Principal Manufacturing Equipment MaintenancePrincipal MechanicalPrincipal Electrical
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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