# Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

> Plan and schedule maintenance work so that people, parts and equipment are ready, and more work gets done safely.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Engineering & Maintenance
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/engineering-maintenance/maintenance-planning-and-scheduling
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=maintenance-planning-and-scheduling

## Overview

Without good planning, technicians spend much of their day waiting for parts, permits or access. This course teaches maintenance planners, supervisors and engineers how to build a backlog, plan jobs with accurate scopes, estimates and materials, schedule around production, coordinate shutdowns and measure schedule compliance, using CMMS examples.

## Who should attend

- Maintenance planners and schedulers
- Maintenance supervisors and managers
- Reliability and plant engineers
- Stores and materials coordinators

## Learning outcomes

- Manage the work order process and backlog
- Plan jobs with scope, labour, materials and safety requirements
- Build weekly and daily schedules with operations
- Plan and control shutdowns and turnarounds
- Measure planning and scheduling performance

## Course outline

### Day 1: Maintenance management

- Maintenance strategies
- The work management process
- Roles of planner and scheduler
- CMMS fundamentals

### Day 2: Planning jobs

- Job scoping and site visits
- Estimating labour and time
- Materials and spares
- Job packs and safety permits

### Day 3: Scheduling

- Backlog management
- Priority systems
- Weekly scheduling with operations
- Daily coordination

### Day 4: Shutdowns

- Shutdown scope and freeze
- Critical path planning
- Contractor coordination
- Shutdown control

### Day 5: Performance

- Schedule compliance
- Wrench time
- Maintenance KPIs
- Improvement plan