Maintenance Excellence Programme
How do you view training for your maintenance staff? Is it a waste of time or a fundamental part of maintenance improvement? The reality is that companies investing in training outperform and have much better staff retention rates than companies that don’t.
Something that should be of concern to us all is the fact is that for many maintenance tradesmen the only formal training they receive is during their apprenticeship in the first four years of their career. If organisations want to reach international maintenance best practice then a structured approach is needed to maintenance training.
Skills4Work have a long & proven involvement in training engineering apprentices and are well known & trusted in the engineering sector. What isn’t so well known though is the Maintenance Excellence programme available through Skills4Work, which takes training for maintenance technicians above & beyond that taught during the trade certificate.
This training has been developed for three distinct groups.
For apprentices key concepts and skills are taught alongside their apprenticeship, building in best practice before bad practice can become embedded.
For tradesmen the programme starts at a higher level, allowing them to build on the skills they already have to learn how they can incorporate international best practices in to those skills.
For managers a short course teaches the organisational benefits of adopting maintenance best practice, because without the support of managers it’s more difficult to embed the necessary skills & culture into an organisation.
The Maintenance Excellence programme can ultimately lead to a national certificate or diploma in maintenance & reliability but is structured in such a way that there is immediate benefit for the student and the organisation. Within the applied learning element of the course students complete a workplace project. During the first project, not only are potential savings identified but a fully costed justification for change is put forward to management. In many cases the implementation of the change has been simple and the savings made often run into hundreds of thousands of dollars!
The skills4Work Maintenance Excellence programme is the best way to upskill your maintenance staff.