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Maintenance Manager jobs are well within reach for F-1 OPT students with engineering, facilities management, or industrial technology backgrounds. Most roles qualify as STEM OPT extensions, giving you up to three years of work authorization. Employers in manufacturing, real estate, and hospitality actively hire for this role year-round.
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We believe general-purpose, generally-intelligent robots will be built in our lifetimes. Robots will work in our factories, move our goods, walk on our streets and eventually be in our homes. To build that future, research and deployment must work in lockstep: real-world operation must make the technology better and better technology must make deployment easier. We're looking for the thinkers, builders, and researchers who want to be part of that loop.
As an AI robotics company that deploys its inventions directly into the facilities that need them, on state-of-the-art hardware, every line of code written at Tutor has a direct impact on the global, physical economy.
Culture
We believe that something truly special can happen when talented, motivated people work together; at Tutor, every member of our team is empowered to have real impact in everything that they do. We’re characterized by both technical excellence and next-level collaboration and respect.
The Role
At Tutor, our robots are operating in customer facilities across North America every day. When a robot goes down, customers feel it immediately.
Our Maintenance and Field Service team is responsible for keeping those systems running, supporting customers, and providing the feedback that helps make our products better.
This role sits at the intersection of Robotics, Operations, Manufacturing, and Engineering. You will troubleshoot complex robotic systems, perform repairs and upgrades, support deployments, and work directly with customers to maximize uptime and performance.
Your work in the field will directly influence future product design, reliability improvements, and how we scale our fleet from dozens of robots today to hundreds and eventually thousands.
If you are the person everyone calls when something breaks, we want to talk to you.
- Deploy new robotic systems at customer sites, including installation, commissioning, validation, and customer handoff
- Perform preventative maintenance on autonomous robotic systems
- Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, controls, and networking-related issues
- Execute repairs, upgrades, retrofits, and field modifications
- Support customer ramp-up and operational readiness following deployment
- Work directly with customers to maximize uptime, reliability, and operational performance
- Document failures, collect field data, and support root cause investigations
- Partner closely with Engineering to improve product reliability and serviceability
- Help develop maintenance procedures, service standards, troubleshooting guides, and best practices
- Support product validation, pilot deployments, and new product introductions
- Travel throughout the United States to support deployments, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and emergency service events
Qualifications
Experience troubleshooting, repairing, building, maintaining, or deploying electromechanical systems
- Strong mechanical aptitude and hands-on problem-solving skills
- Ability to diagnose electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and controls-related issues
- Experience working with motors, sensors, actuators, drives, pneumatics, conveyors, robotics, industrial automation, CNC equipment, AGVs, AMRs, or similar systems
- Ability to read electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and technical documentation
- Experience using hand tools, power tools, multimeters, and diagnostic equipment
- Strong communication skills and customer-facing professionalism
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of problems
- Willingness to learn new technologies and operate in a fast-paced environment
- Valid driver's license and ability to travel extensively
Bonus Points
- Robotics or automation experience
- Field service experience
- PLC troubleshooting experience
- Networking or Linux experience
- ROS experience
- Startup or high-growth company experience
- Military technical background
- Fabrication, machining, welding, or 3D printing experience
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electronics, Industrial Technology, programming, computer science.
Travel
This role requires approximately 75% travel throughout the United States.
Most trips are short-duration service visits focused on deployments, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and customer support. Technicians are generally home most weekends.
Who Thrives Here
The people who succeed at Tutor are curious, humble, hands-on, and resourceful.
They enjoy solving difficult problems.
They take ownership.
They are comfortable working in fast-moving environments.
They care about customers.
They are builders.
Whether you learned your skills through robotics, manufacturing, military service, maintenance, aviation, automotive, electronics, construction, farming, racing, or simply by taking things apart and figuring out how they work, we want to hear from you.
Why Join Tutor
- Work on cutting-edge robotics technology deployed in the real world
- Deploy robots that have a direct impact on customer operations
- Solve challenging technical problems that matter to customers
- Partner directly with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations leadership
- Help shape the future of products used by major customers across North America
- Gain experience across robotics, automation, software, mechanical systems, controls, and field operations
- Grow into senior technical, engineering, operations, or leadership roles as the company scales
Join us and help build the future of automation.
Tutor offers competitive benefits including fully employer-covered health insurance, a managed 401(k), and regular in-office meals. We also offer unlimited PTO and holidays. We host social events and maintain a collaborative, low-ego work culture where people are trusted to take ownership and solve real problems. Tutor is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
About Tutor
We believe general-purpose, generally-intelligent robots will be built in our lifetimes. Robots will work in our factories, move our goods, walk on our streets and eventually be in our homes. To build that future, research and deployment must work in lockstep: real-world operation must make the technology better and better technology must make deployment easier. We're looking for the thinkers, builders, and researchers who want to be part of that loop.
As an AI robotics company that deploys its inventions directly into the facilities that need them, on state-of-the-art hardware, every line of code written at Tutor has a direct impact on the global, physical economy.
Culture
We believe that something truly special can happen when talented, motivated people work together; at Tutor, every member of our team is empowered to have real impact in everything that they do. We’re characterized by both technical excellence and next-level collaboration and respect.
The Role
At Tutor, our robots are operating in customer facilities across North America every day. When a robot goes down, customers feel it immediately.
Our Maintenance and Field Service team is responsible for keeping those systems running, supporting customers, and providing the feedback that helps make our products better.
This role sits at the intersection of Robotics, Operations, Manufacturing, and Engineering. You will troubleshoot complex robotic systems, perform repairs and upgrades, support deployments, and work directly with customers to maximize uptime and performance.
Your work in the field will directly influence future product design, reliability improvements, and how we scale our fleet from dozens of robots today to hundreds and eventually thousands.
If you are the person everyone calls when something breaks, we want to talk to you.
- Deploy new robotic systems at customer sites, including installation, commissioning, validation, and customer handoff
- Perform preventative maintenance on autonomous robotic systems
- Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, controls, and networking-related issues
- Execute repairs, upgrades, retrofits, and field modifications
- Support customer ramp-up and operational readiness following deployment
- Work directly with customers to maximize uptime, reliability, and operational performance
- Document failures, collect field data, and support root cause investigations
- Partner closely with Engineering to improve product reliability and serviceability
- Help develop maintenance procedures, service standards, troubleshooting guides, and best practices
- Support product validation, pilot deployments, and new product introductions
- Travel throughout the United States to support deployments, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and emergency service events
Qualifications
Experience troubleshooting, repairing, building, maintaining, or deploying electromechanical systems
- Strong mechanical aptitude and hands-on problem-solving skills
- Ability to diagnose electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and controls-related issues
- Experience working with motors, sensors, actuators, drives, pneumatics, conveyors, robotics, industrial automation, CNC equipment, AGVs, AMRs, or similar systems
- Ability to read electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and technical documentation
- Experience using hand tools, power tools, multimeters, and diagnostic equipment
- Strong communication skills and customer-facing professionalism
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of problems
- Willingness to learn new technologies and operate in a fast-paced environment
- Valid driver's license and ability to travel extensively
Bonus Points
- Robotics or automation experience
- Field service experience
- PLC troubleshooting experience
- Networking or Linux experience
- ROS experience
- Startup or high-growth company experience
- Military technical background
- Fabrication, machining, welding, or 3D printing experience
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electronics, Industrial Technology, programming, computer science.
Travel
This role requires approximately 75% travel throughout the United States.
Most trips are short-duration service visits focused on deployments, preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and customer support. Technicians are generally home most weekends.
Who Thrives Here
The people who succeed at Tutor are curious, humble, hands-on, and resourceful.
They enjoy solving difficult problems.
They take ownership.
They are comfortable working in fast-moving environments.
They care about customers.
They are builders.
Whether you learned your skills through robotics, manufacturing, military service, maintenance, aviation, automotive, electronics, construction, farming, racing, or simply by taking things apart and figuring out how they work, we want to hear from you.
Why Join Tutor
- Work on cutting-edge robotics technology deployed in the real world
- Deploy robots that have a direct impact on customer operations
- Solve challenging technical problems that matter to customers
- Partner directly with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations leadership
- Help shape the future of products used by major customers across North America
- Gain experience across robotics, automation, software, mechanical systems, controls, and field operations
- Grow into senior technical, engineering, operations, or leadership roles as the company scales
Join us and help build the future of automation.
Tutor offers competitive benefits including fully employer-covered health insurance, a managed 401(k), and regular in-office meals. We also offer unlimited PTO and holidays. We host social events and maintain a collaborative, low-ego work culture where people are trusted to take ownership and solve real problems. Tutor is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Maintenance Manager
Confirm your degree qualifies for STEM OPT
Maintenance Manager roles often fall under STEM OPT when your degree is in mechanical engineering, industrial technology, or facilities management. Verify your CIP code with your DSO before applying to maximize your three-year authorization window.
Target industries with high sponsorship rates
Manufacturing, commercial real estate, and large hospitality groups sponsor Maintenance Managers most consistently. These employers run large facilities operations and have established HR processes for work authorization, making them more receptive to OPT candidates than smaller firms.
Lead with technical credentials in your application
Certifications like EPA 608, OSHA 30, or a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional designation signal readiness to employers. Listing these prominently reduces friction around your OPT status by demonstrating immediate, tangible value from day one.
Address OPT proactively in your cover letter
Briefly state your current authorization period and STEM extension eligibility. Employers unfamiliar with OPT often assume shorter timelines. A one-sentence clarification that you have up to three years removes a common reason for early screening-out.
Focus on employers with existing H-1B sponsorship history
Companies that have sponsored H-1B visas for engineering or operations roles are far more likely to support your OPT and eventual visa transition. This signals an established immigration process rather than a first-time navigation for their HR team.
Negotiate your start date around OPT timing
Your OPT start date must fall within 90 days of graduation. Be upfront with employers about your available start window early in conversations. Employers who plan ahead on facilities staffing can accommodate this without disrupting their operations timelines.
Maintenance Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Maintenance Manager on F-1 OPT?
Yes. Maintenance Manager roles qualify for F-1 OPT when the position is directly related to your field of study, such as mechanical engineering, facilities management, or industrial technology. If your degree is on the STEM OPT designated degree list, you may also be eligible for a 24-month STEM extension, giving you up to three years of total work authorization.
Does a Maintenance Manager role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not the job title. Degrees in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, or related applied sciences commonly qualify. Your DSO can confirm whether your specific CIP code is on the STEM designated degree list. If it is, and your employer is E-Verify enrolled, you can apply for the 24-month extension before your standard OPT expires.
How do I find Maintenance Manager jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate is the best place to start. It filters job listings specifically for international students on OPT and visa sponsorship pathways, so you're not wasting time on roles that screen out work authorization requirements upfront. Employers in manufacturing, property management, and hospitality post Maintenance Manager openings there regularly.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I'm laid off from a Maintenance Manager role?
You have a 90-day unemployment allowance across your entire OPT period. If you lose your job, that clock starts immediately. You must report the job loss to your DSO and update your SEVIS record. Finding a new qualifying position before you exhaust those 90 days is critical, so beginning your job search right away matters.
Do Maintenance Manager employers typically sponsor H-1B visas after OPT?
Larger employers in manufacturing, commercial real estate, and facilities services are more likely to sponsor. Smaller property management companies often lack the HR infrastructure for visa sponsorship. Searching for employers with a history of H-1B filings in engineering or operations roles is a reliable proxy for sponsorship willingness when evaluating where to apply.