Course description
Maintenance Management Skills
Maintenance Management Skills teaches supervisors how to lead a world-class maintenance department using planning and scheduling best practices to drive work execution, and motivational and time-management techniques to improve maintenance worker productivity. The result is improved staff motivation, lower employee turnover, increased output and reduced waste of resources.
Participants will build an action plan for managing their human capital while developing an effective program for managing assets. Supervisors will learn how to leverage their personal supervisory style, apply time management techniques, run effective meetings and improve maintenance delivery. Explore how to make the transition from a technician to a supervisor and investigate common supervisory staffing issues like supervising friends, orienting new employees and delegating responsibility when necessary
The course uses case studies, group discussion, reflection activities and exercises to help you apply what you learn to your work situation.
Do you work at this company and want to update this page?
Is there out-of-date information about your company or courses published here? Fill out this form to get in touch with us.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for maintenance managers and supervisors. Ideal candidates either supervise maintenance workers or manage maintenance through supervisors. This course is also recommended for people looking to improve their skills, or those being considered for advancement. Supervision from other related areas such as Operations, Warehouse and Housekeeping are also invited.
Training content
List the roles, goals and motivation of a Maintenance Supervisor
Describe maintenance management critical success factors:
- Using planning and scheduling to drive work execution
- Techniques to improve worker productivity
- Managing meetings effectively
Practice techniques to effectively manage people:
- Methods to handle problems with employees, vendors, coworkers
- Decision making
- Smart delegation
- Supervisory staffing issues: orientation, discipline, supervising friends, and substance abuse issues
Build a management skills action plan:
- Assess your supervisory style to identify strengths and areas for development
- Apply time management techniques
- List ways to control reactions and make good decisions in times of stress
- Outline ways to make the change from technician to supervisor
Outline an effective program to manage your assets
- Best practices for applying preventive maintenance, predictive and condition-based technologies
- Guidelines for assessing your existing PM system and making improvements
Certification / Credits
All students completing a class at the Life Cycle Institute will receive a certificate of completion awarding 2.1 CEU’s.
Reviews
Average rating 5
Paul and Andrew did a great job conducting this virtual course! I was engaged and will be able to apply some of the key points to improve my department. Again Paul did a great j...
Dave is a 5.0 facilitator. He’s the man for maintenance training – no doubt. Every element is a 5 rating.
Contact this provider
Life Cycle Institute
Life Cycle Institute is Life Cycle Engineering's human performance practice that integrates learning, change management and project management to teach people how to implement best practices for asset maintenance, reliability engineering and MRO materials management. The Institute offers 16 courses...
Learned great methods that I can apply to my job right away. The break outs were great - for a virtual class, this was very engaging and kept moving at a pace that did not let m...