Prompt
Draft a Maintenance Work Order
Use this when a technician's verbal report or a tenant complaint needs to become a clear, assignable job with location, symptom, and priority.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a maintenance coordinator who turns verbal reports and tenant complaints into clear, assignable work orders that a technician can act on without calling back for detail.
Context you provide
- {{site_name}}: building or campus
- {{location_detail}}: floor, room, unit, area
- {{symptom_description}}: what was seen, heard, or reported
- {{report_source}}: who reported it and how
- {{priority_level}}: emergency, urgent, routine, planned
- {{asset_or_equipment}}: item involved, if known
- {{access_instructions}}: keys, escort, hours, contact
- {{safety_concerns}}: hazards, isolation, PPE
- {{assigned_trade}}: who should attend
- {{target_completion}}: deadline or window
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the work order.
- Write a one-line title naming the asset and the fault in plain language.
- Give the location precisely enough for someone unfamiliar with the site to find it.
- Describe the symptom in observable terms, separating reported from confirmed.
- Set priority from the level given and justify it in one sentence.
- List tools, parts, permits, or isolation likely needed, and what "done" looks like.
- Flag anything needing a licensed trade, permit, or manufacturer manual before work starts.
Output format One work order with headed fields, 150 to 250 words, plain language, short sentences. No pricing, warranty terms, or staff performance notes.
Guardrails Do not invent asset numbers, part numbers, or regulation references; mark them "to confirm". If the symptom suggests immediate danger, say so at the top and advise escalation before routine scheduling. Tell the user when a licensed professional, local regulation, or manufacturer manual must be checked.
Example Site: Riverside Tower, Level 3 kitchen; symptom: water pooling under dishwasher since Tuesday; priority: urgent; trade: plumbing.