How to become a building maintenance worker
Official title: Building maintenance worker
Also called: Building maintenance handyman, Building maintenance man, Building repairer, Building repairer
Building maintenance worker keeps structures such as office buildings, apartment houses, hotels and factory buildings in good condition. He/she performs concreting, bricklaying, carpentry, painting and other construction maintenance duties, and replaces defective electrical switches and other fixtures.
Main tasks
- Performing miscellaneous construction and building maintenance work on structures such as office buildings, apartment houses, factories and similar establishments in good repair
Ways in
- Polytechnic or ITE: Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Architectural Technology & Building Services (Temasek Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $38,940 a year. The middle half earn $29,256 to $53,532 a year.
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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- Building structure cleaner and related worker
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Questions people ask
How do I become a building maintenance worker?
Ways in include: Polytechnic diploma.
How much does a building maintenance worker earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $38,940 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $29,256 to $53,532.
Will AI change the work of a building maintenance worker?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- 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