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Maintenance Work Management

How maintenance work flows from identification to close-out: raising quality work orders, prioritising on risk, keeping the backlog healthy and treating the CMMS as the single source of truth. For technicians, planners and supervisors in industrial and energy operations.

46m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons

What you'll learn

  • Describe the six stages of the maintenance work management cycle and what each stage exists to achieve
  • Raise work requests with clear problem descriptions that a planner can act on without a phone call
  • Prioritise work on risk and consequence rather than on who is asking loudest
  • Explain what a healthy backlog looks like, how it is measured and how it is kept clean
  • Close out work orders with as-found/as-left feedback and correct failure codes
  • Use the CMMS as the single source of truth for maintenance work and history

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.

1

Awareness

  • The work management cycle
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Raising a good work request
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Awareness check: the work management cycle
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • Prioritising on risk, not noise
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Backlog health
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Knowledge check: priority and backlog
    Assessment
    7m
3

Skill

  • Close-out: turning jobs into knowledge
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Work order quality review
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill check: close-out and data quality
    Assessment
    7m
4

Mastery

  • Leading the work management system
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Lead a backlog review
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery check: leading work management
    Assessment
    7m

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