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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