Sample cover letter for maintenance engineer

Cover letter example for a Maintenance Engineer job. This is also a  good cover letter for a Maintenance personnel, on-call repairman, maintenance generalist, general utilities man, and building maintenance technician. You can amend this letter as suitable and apply for latest job vacancies.

This cover letter can include contents as follows:

1. Your contact information

• Name
• Address
• City
• State
• Zip Code
• Phone
• Email

2. Date:

3. Employer contact information

• Name
• Title
• Company
• Address
• City
• State
• Zip Code

4. Ref: Recruitment position on date of …………….

5. Salutation
Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name (or department name…)

6. First Paragraph

The first paragraph of your letter should include:

• What position you are applying for.
• Where you found the job listing

Example:

• I was referred to you by Mr. Peter Jan, a Partner with your ABC, who informed me that the NY office of Maintenance engineer is actively seeking to hire quality individuals for your dept.

• My friend, Anna Tan, currently working in the Sales department at ABC, recommended that I contact you about the Maintenance engineer currently available in your department. I am very excited about this opportunity and I would be an asset to your company based on my college coursework and prior experience.

7. Middle Paragraph

In this section, you should describe what you have to offer the employer about position: Maintenance engineer. Note that you should make strong connections between your competencies and their job specification.

You should pay attention to:

• Do not repeat resume.
• Try to write this letter just in an A4.
• Just show key elements of your competencies that match to job specs.

These paragraphs can include contents as follows:

Knowledge and education

• Degrees.
• All certificates related to this job.
• Licenses.

Experience: you also mention some task that match with job specification, for example

• Maintains, replaces and rekeys both manual and electronic locks as needed, maintains accurate records of locks rekeyed.
• Use your experience in mechanical reliability engineering in a chemical plant to maintain and improve plant operations and profitability.
• Removes, cleans, replaces and maintains unit air conditioners (PTACs), televisions, telephones, and similar equipment.
• Develops maintenance programs such as the Maintenance Management Program, Preventive Maintenance, organization, worker level job structure, manpower utilization and construction equipment requirements and utilization.
• Appraises and prepares reports on the effectiveness of such programs.
• Ensures fire safety equipment (fire alarm system, smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, etc.) are operational and that inspections are current, and forwards inspection reports to General Manager.
• Work to improve routine, extraordinary, and turnaround maintenance, equipment and piping inspections, spare parts availability, vibration and oil analysis frequency, company maintenance, and similar activities.

Skills

• Professional skills
• Soft skills
• Management skills

Abilities

8. Final Paragraph

You should thank the employer for considering you for the position. Include information on how you will follow-up.

9. Complimentary Close
Respectfully yours,

10. Signature
Handwritten Signature (for a mailed letter)
Typed Signature

Writing a cover letter often seems like a particularly daunting task but if you take it one step at a time, you’ll soon be an expert at writing cover letters.

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