Course Outline

2 Days

8 Core Modules

Work Management And Business Imperatives

  • Business objectives and the maintenance strategy
  • Annual and monthly budget controls
  • Work flow – defining all the processes
  • Stakeholders
  • Performance measurement and continuous improvement

Identifying Work

  • Nature of work and what initiates it
  • Specify new work and user priorities
  • Approval of work – technical and commercial approval
  • Back log and risk reporting

Maintenance Planning

  • Initial Estimation and the Forward Log
  • Scoping: Interface between the Supervisor and the Planner
  • Detailed Planning and using the Work Management System
  • Specifying materials, resources, tools etc
  • Requirements of a Work Order

Maintenance Scheduling And Dispatch

  • Forecasting and committing the PM schedule
  • Using the Forward Log and resource balancing
  • Opportunistic work
  • Handling work not done
  • Standard meetings and work dispatch

Maintenance Work Execution

  • Coordinating work and work site access
  • Monitoring the work site and technical support to the team
  • Handling urgent and emergency work
  • Work order close out
  • Financial reconciliation

Spares Management

  • Supply management processes
  • Catalogue and inventory
  • Stock control
  • Staging parts
  • Goods issues and returns

Transitioning From Breakdown Maintenance

  • Managing change
  • Establishing the plant listing
  • Statutory obligations
  • Job Plans
  • PM schedules

Performance Assessment And Measurement

  • KPIs
  • Response to KPIs
  • Auditing
  • Management reporting and strategy improvement

Who should attend

What you can expect to take away

Snapshot

Work Management And Business Imperatives

Identifying Work

Maintenance Planning

Maintenance Scheduling And Dispatch

Maintenance Work Execution

Spares Management

Transitioning From Breakdown Maintenance

Performance Assessment And Measurement

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Your Instructors

Peter Durrant

Peter Durrant

Adjunct Principal

Covaris

Navy veteran, diverse maintenance career. Senior roles in Navy, mining, and resources. Maintenance consultant. Expert in work management, sustainable change. Dip Eng & MBA Tech Mgmt.

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Kylie Nash

Kylie Nash

Principal Engineer

Provecta Process Automation

30+ years engineer in electricity generation. AGL Macquarie veteran - asset management, reliability, team leadership. Skilled in problem-solving, change projects. BEng & MBA Tech Mgmt.

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Cliff Williams

Cliff Williams

Principal Advisor – Asset Management, Maintenance and Reliability

Total Maintenance Solutions

Asset management specialist since ISO 55001 ‘s inception. Former Corporate Maintenance Manager and Humber College lecturer. Author of “People – A Reliability Success Story.” Champions people focused reliability: cultivating human initiative and brain power to drive maintenance excellence across diverse organisational cultures.

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Matthew Laskaj

Matthew Laskaj

Director

Project Engineering Management

Chartered Mechanical Engineer and IMechE Fellow with international energy and manufacturing experience. Director of Project Engineering Management Ltd. Delivers ISO 55001-aligned training and improvement projects across oil & gas, renewables, and process industries. PRINCE2 certified practitioner.

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Gary Tyne

Gary Tyne

Founder

Pro-Reliability Solutions

Founded Pro-Reliability Solutions. Four decades of maintenance and reliability expertise across UK, Ireland, Australia, US, Thailand, Turkey, and the Middle East. Author of 40 Years, 40 Lessons. Global conference speaker and reliability consultant.

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Floris Mostert

Floris Mostert

Maintenance Planning Trainer & Educator

Former Engineering & Asset Management Manager, City of Cape Town, overseeing R60 billion in infrastructure. Led South Africa’s first PAS55-certified municipal department. Multiple national awards including SABS President’s Award. First in African practitioner to obtain the PAS55 specification of asset management.

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Neil Smith

Neil Smith

Director

Jebs Advisory

An accomplished Maintenance and Asset Management professional, Neil has extensive operational leadership experience across Resources, Manufacturing, Defence, and Utilities sectors. His expertise spans maintenance, projects, and productivity improvement, striving for excellence in safety, performance, and cost management.

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Planners' School Level 1

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Brisbane QLD
Instructor-led, classroom learning
2026-03-23
Mar 23
24 Mar
2026
2495
$2495 +GST
Perth WA
Instructor-led, classroom learning
2026-04-28
Apr 28
29 Apr
2026
2495
$2495 +GST
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2026-05-18
May 18
19 May
2026
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Instructor-led, classroom learning
2026-07-20
Jul 20
21 Jul
2026
2495
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2026-09-14
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15 Sep
2026
2495
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Instructor-led, classroom learning
2026-10-12
Oct 12
13 Oct
2026
2495
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Melbourne VIC
Instructor-led, classroom learning
2026-11-16
Nov 16
17 Nov
2026
2495
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Instructor-led, classroom learning
2026-11-23
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2026
2495
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FMG

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Assets Maintenance Planner

Waikato Regional Council

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