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Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

How to plan maintenance jobs properly and schedule them into an achievable weekly programme: the planner's future-focused role, job plan quality, kitting and staging, the weekly scheduling meeting, wrench time and controlling break-in work. For planners, schedulers and maintenance supervisors.

46m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons

What you'll learn

  • Distinguish the planner's future-focused role from the supervisor's day-of-execution role, and protect the boundary
  • Build job plans that define scope, steps, parts, tools, permits and realistic durations
  • Kit and stage parts, tools and materials so jobs start without delay
  • Run a weekly scheduling cycle with operations and measure schedule compliance honestly
  • Explain what wrench time is, what typically steals it, and how planning recovers it
  • Control break-in work so genuine emergencies are served without destroying the schedule

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.

1

Awareness

  • Why plan maintenance work?
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Wrench time and what steals it
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Awareness check: planning and wrench time
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • Anatomy of a good job plan
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Kitting and staging
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Knowledge check: job plans and kitting
    Assessment
    7m
3

Skill

  • The weekly scheduling cycle and schedule compliance
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Build a complete job plan and kit list
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill check: scheduling week by week
    Assessment
    7m
4

Mastery

  • Controlling break-in work
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Run a full weekly scheduling cycle
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery check: protecting the schedule
    Assessment
    7m

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