How to become an airport maintenance technician
Official title: Airport maintenance technician
Also called: Airport maintenance officer, Airport maintenance specialist, Airport maintenance technical officer, Executive (Technical Services), Maintenance Technician, Supervisor (Technical Services), Technical Services Officer, Airport maintenance technical officer
Airport maintenance technician maintains equipment necessary for ensuring the functionality of the airport, for example, visual aids, airport electrical systems, luggage systems, security systems, etc.
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Work-study diploma. Related ITE work-study diplomas: Work-Study Diploma in Airport Operations. You are employed by a company and study at ITE at the same time. Peernovo matched these from course names.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an airport maintenance technician?
Ways in include: Work-study diploma.
Will AI change the work of an airport maintenance technician?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026