Course Details

This course is appropriate for a wide range of professionals but not limited to:

• Maintenance Planners and Schedulers
• Maintenance Supervisors and Coordinators
• Reliability and Maintenance Engineer
• Operations and Production Personnel
• Asset Management and Engineering Support Staff
• Anyone involved in planning, scheduling, or controlling maintenance activities

• Expert-led sessions with dynamic visual aids
• Comprehensive course manual to support practical application and reinforcement
• Interactive discussions addressing participants’ real-world projects and challenges
• Insightful case studies and proven best practices to enhance learning

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of maintenance work planning and scheduling
• Develop accurate job plans, including labor, materials, tools, and safety requirements
• Create and manage effective maintenance schedules
• Optimize maintenance resource allocation and workflow efficiency
• Implement work control processes from request to completion
• Apply KPIs and metrics to measure maintenance performance and improvement

DAY 1

Maintenance Fundamentals, Work Management and Planning Process

• Understand the role of maintenance in asset performance, reliability, and business objectives 
• Apply modern maintenance management principles and maintenance strategies 
• Define maintenance roles, responsibilities, policies, and governance requirements 
• Identify, screen, validate, and prioritize maintenance work requests 
• Apply risk-based prioritization and asset criticality assessment 
• Manage the complete Work Order lifecycle and required information 
• Develop effective job scopes and maintenance work packages 
• Estimate labor, materials, tools, resources, and job duration 
• Prepare job plans incorporating safety, permits, and compliance requirements 
• Apply CMMS and digital work management systems to support planning

DAY 2

Maintenance Scheduling, Resource Coordination and Logistics Planning

• Understand the relationship between maintenance planning, scheduling, and work control 
• Develop effective daily, weekly, and shutdown maintenance schedules 
• Manage and optimize maintenance backlogs 
• Forecast workforce requirements and allocate resources effectively 
• Coordinate maintenance activities with operations, engineering, and contractors 
• Plan equipment outages, maintenance windows, shutdowns, and turnarounds 
• Develop and optimize Preventive Maintenance programs and schedules 
• Integrate Condition-Based and Predictive Maintenance into schedules 
• Plan materials, spare parts, inventory, and maintenance logistics 
• Use CMMS for scheduling, resource coordination, and maintenance control

DAY 3

Maintenance Work Control, Performance Measurement, and Continuous Improvement

• Monitor and control maintenance work execution from start to completion 
• Manage workflow, coordination, delays, deviations, and schedule disruptions 
• Verify completed work and apply quality assurance requirements 
• Complete work orders with accurate documentation and maintenance history 
• Track failures, corrective actions, and recurring maintenance issues 
• Apply FMEA and Root Cause Analysis to improve maintenance performance 
• Measure maintenance performance using relevant KPIs and metrics 
• Evaluate schedule compliance, backlog, productivity, MTBF, MTTR, availability, and reliability 
• Apply benchmarking, cost control, lessons learned, and continuous improvement 
• Develop an integrated roadmap for improving maintenance planning, scheduling, and work control