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General Maintenance Technician Course

What will I learn?

Improve your firefighting career with our General Maintenance Technician Course, designed to boost your technical skills in looking after important emergency generator systems. Learn how to put technical documents in order, create inspection checklists, and carry out regular maintenance work. Learn to find and fix common generator problems, making sure they are ready to work in fire stations. This short, good-quality course gives you the practical skills to keep important equipment working well, protecting your community.

Apoia's Unique Offerings

Online courses with lifetime access
Certificate aligned with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
24/7 online support
Select and organise the chapters you wish to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, no internet required

Develop your skills

Enhance your practical skills listed below

Learn how to handle technical documents for clear communication.

Create inspection checklists to make sure maintenance is done properly.

Carry out generator shutdown and startup safely.

Find and fix generator problems, including overheating and failing to start.

Understand how emergency generators work and their purpose in fire stations.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters similar to the examples below

This is a free course aimed at personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but provides practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.