Maintenance Planning And Scheduling

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling is a leadership-critical capability that converts maintenance strategy into predictable execution, safeguarding asset integrity while protecting cost, safety, and service performance. In modern organizations, leaders are expected to deliver higher reliability with fewer resources, tighter shutdown windows, and increasing stakeholder scrutiny, which makes disciplined planning and scheduling a decisive competitive advantage rather than an operational back-office function. This course builds an executive-level understanding of how effective work identification, prioritization, scoping, planning, materials readiness, capacity management, and schedule governance reduce unplanned downtime, stabilize workflow, and improve workforce productivity without compromising standards. Participants will learn how to set clear targets, define measurable performance expectations, allocate responsibilities, and establish practical control mechanisms that enable consistent results across sites and teams. The program also addresses common challenges such as reactive firefighting, poor work quality from incomplete scopes, spare parts delays, weak coordination between operations and maintenance, and low schedule compliance, turning these pain points into opportunities for structured improvement, transparent decision-making, and stronger cross-functional accountability.

Maintenance managers and supervisors, planning and scheduling engineers, reliability and asset integrity professionals, operations supervisors and coordinators, shutdown and turnaround planners, spare parts and materials management teams, technical services and engineering leaders, and contract maintenance coordinators who require a structured approach to improving maintenance execution performance.

• Improved asset availability through higher schedule compliance and reduced unplanned work.

• Lower maintenance cost through better labor utilization and fewer repeat jobs.

• Stronger safety performance by ensuring work readiness, risk controls, and clear execution plans.

• Reduced operational disruption through coordinated planning windows and disciplined weekly scheduling.

• Enhanced transparency and accountability through measurable planning and scheduling performance indicators.

• More predictable shutdown and maintenance outcomes via standardized planning and governance practices.

• Ability to build practical job plans that improve execution quality and reduce delays.

• Stronger prioritization skills to manage backlog and align work with business impact.

• Confidence to create achievable schedules that reflect capacity and operational constraints.

• Improved stakeholder management through structured coordination and communication routines.

• Practical tools to measure performance, diagnose variance, and drive continuous improvement.

• Clear understanding of governance practices that elevate maintenance planning from reactive to controlled execution.

Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom / Online / Blended