New Technician

Starting Strong as a New Tech #1

Name: Starting Strong as a New Tech #1
Uploaded: 2025-07-14T13:28:46Z
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Description: If you're brand new to maintenance with no experience — don’t stress. This video walks you through what’s truly expected in your first months on the job: a great attitude, coachability, and a willingness to learn. Start with the basics, avoid shortcuts early, and remember — your team wants you to succeed.

If you're brand new to maintenance with no experience — don’t stress. This video walks you through what’s truly expected in your first months on the job: a great attitude, coachability, and a willingness to learn. Start with the basics, avoid shortcuts early, and remember — your team wants you to succeed.

Soft Skills

Best Practices

Maintenance

Mark Cukro

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So what should be expected of you as a technician that's brand new in the business that has no experience? Well, mostly a good attitude, a willingness to learn and you being coachable. If you have no experience, most supervisors or people that you're going to work with don't mind when you, especially if you have great attitude, if you have great attitude.

Most people just pour all the knowledge they have right into you as a technician. But think about this one or 2%. 5% maybe every month, every two weeks, and you're gonna be a very good technician. So what happens very often is you'll put expectations and standards on yourself, and it's too much, and you get overwhelmed and you get frustrated.

Just do the best you can get the basic hand tools. Have a good attitude, be coachable. Ask your supervisor to teach you or anyone on the team that's willing to teach you. But I will say this, learn how to do everything correctly first, then learn tips and shortcuts in the field. Because oftentimes, if you learn shortcuts in the beginning, it can take away from the ability to really truly understand how things work.

And I gotta tell you, everyone that's on your team. Is really hoping that you're a wonderful person to work with. So that would be my advice for the first month or two, and I'll make more about this, but the first month or two, basic hand tools, basic knowledge, wonderful attitude, be coachable and people will appreciate it.