Maintenance Management
Designed for:
Graduates in mechanical, electrical, civil or instrument engineering from universities or technical colleges with 8 to 10 years of total work experience and at least 5 years of field experience preferably in the maintenance of refineries, gas or chemical plants.
Purpose
To give the participants:
- A proper understanding of the role of maintenance in the functioning of an operating unit, the effect it can have on business performance and how it can contribute towards obtaining the maximum return from existing assets
- Knowledge of the techniques and skills required for managing maintenance activities.
Objectives
This course will provide participants with theoretical and practical skills necessary to:
- Explain and apply the knowledge of economics of plant performance, utilisation and availability
- Explain the importance and necessity of a multi disciplinary approach in maintenance
- Choose maintenance strategies and policies to fit corporate objectives
- Apply effective maintenance techniques and use managerial tools to achieve optimum results
- Explain and apply the knowledge of key elements of managing human resources
- Select and use relevant performance indicators
- Explain the concept of total life cycle cost.
Competences addressed
- Working with corporate mission and vision
- Managing Maintenance
- Reviewing and monitoring business performance
- Applying business economics to unit's performance
- Identifying business interdependencies
- Managing inter-departmental relationships
- Proposing and managing improvements
- Using financial and cost information to develop budgets
- Recognise/satisfy customer needs/expectation
- Using IT for controlling/improving work results
- Building and maintaining teams
- Quality Management
- Applying and supporting HSE
Information for participants
Candidates should have gathered sufficient work experience and displayed the aptitude to take on responsibilities for managing maintenance in a refinery, gas- or chemical plant.
Basic knowledge about the processes in these plants is a requirement.
In this Maintenance Management course, the participants are given an opportunity to work with real data of a small refinery.
The whole course will be very interactive in learning how to manage your maintenance activities. All the tools and techniques will be explained and participants will work on a case study to develop a total plan for improving the maintenance performance. Also so called “soft” issues to manage change will be addressed.
