Mainter Helps Next Generation of Maintenance Technicians

The demand for skilled professionals in Swedish industry remains high, particularly when it comes to qualified maintenance technicians. To help address this skills gap, Mainter has partnered with Peder Skrivares School in Varberg, Sweden, where students on the Industrial Technology Programme now have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with Mainter as a maintenance management system (CMMS) – while still in education.

A Growing Need for Maintenance Skills

Swedish industry is facing significant challenges in securing the skills it needs for the future. Retirements, technological advances and increasingly digitalised production processes are creating new demands for both technical expertise and ways of working.

At the same time, maintenance is playing an increasingly important role. Effective preventive maintenance is essential for ensuring operational reliability, reducing costly unplanned downtime and creating a more efficient and sustainable industrial sector.

Against this backdrop, education and training programmes that prepare the next generation of maintenance technicians are becoming more important than ever. This is also why Mainter has chosen to support Peder Skrivares School in Varberg.

– We know how great the demand for skilled professionals is among our customers. The industry needs more qualified maintenance technicians, while the importance of structured and preventive maintenance continues to grow. That's why supporting young people in learning modern digital tools during their education feels like a natural step for us, says Peter Levisson, Head of RevOps at Mainter.

From Industry to the Classroom

Peder Skrivares School offers an Industrial Technology Programme where students, after a common first year, can choose between three specialisations: Welding Technology, Product and Machine Technology, and Operational Reliability and Maintenance Technology.

The latter has recently been relaunched, with vocational teacher Markus Nilsson working to create a learning environment that closely reflects the realities of modern industry.

Markus previously worked as a maintenance engineer at Södra and understands the important role that a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) plays in day-to-day maintenance operations. When he wanted to introduce such a tool into his teaching, he began exploring the available options.


Markus Nilsson, Vocational Teacher on the Industrial Technology Programme at Peder Skrivares School in Varberg, Sweden.

– After a bit of searching online, I came across Mainter, which seemed both easy to use and straightforward to implement. I got in touch and quickly received a positive response, allowing us to use the system free of charge for educational purposes. That was back in August, and now, in October, I think we've already made great progress, Markus explains.

Hands-On Experience with Mainter

Today, five students use Mainter almost daily as a natural part of their education. Markus has set up an asset hierarchy in the system and creates work orders that the students manage and complete themselves. This gives them practical experience of how maintenance activities are planned, documented and followed up in a real industrial environment.

– The students really like Mainter and find it easy to understand and use. It brings a valuable real-world perspective to their education and helps them understand how maintenance is managed in industrial companies, says Markus.


Students on the Industrial Technology Programme, specialising in Maintenance Technology. From left: Joakim, Gustav, Elton, Oliver, Melker, and vocational teacher Markus Nilsson on the far right.

The next step is to expand how the system is used, including adding spare parts and inventory items, as well as introducing more detailed tracking of time and costs.

– I want the students to understand the entire maintenance process. Not just how to complete a work order, but also how to document the time spent, which spare parts have been used and what the maintenance work actually costs. That's something I'm really looking forward to developing further together with the students, Markus continues.

Mainter Hopes to Inspire More Educational Partnerships

For Mainter, this collaboration is an opportunity to contribute to the long-term development of the maintenance industry. By making modern maintenance management systems available during education, future technicians can enter the workforce with both theoretical knowledge and valuable hands-on experience.

– We hope this initiative will inspire more schools and maintenance training programmes to get in touch with us. If we can help more young people learn how to use digital maintenance management systems while gaining a better understanding of preventive maintenance, we're making an investment in the future of the entire industry, concludes Peter Levisson.