Course Overview

Effective maintenance is essential for improving asset reliability, reducing operational costs, and supporting long-term organisational performance. As industries become more complex, engineering managers must adopt strategic maintenance practices that enhance efficiency, manage risks, and embrace technological innovation.

The Advanced Maintenance for Engineering Managers programme by Transformentors Academy equips participants with practical knowledge and tools to develop maintenance strategies, optimise asset performance, manage outsourced services, and integrate digital maintenance solutions. Through practical applications and industry examples, participants will strengthen their ability to improve reliability, minimise downtime, and lead maintenance operations with confidence and efficiency.

Agenda

Day — 1 Introduction to Maintenance Strategies and Models

• Understanding the strategic role of maintenance in supporting business performance and asset reliability
• Examining the evolution of maintenance philosophies and their applications:
  • Reactive maintenance
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Reliability-centred maintenance
• Exploring key maintenance delivery models and their advantages:
  • In-house
  • Outsourced
  • Hybrid
• Understanding the integration of maintenance strategy with asset management and corporate objectives
• Identifying the key success factors for designing effective maintenance delivery frameworks
• Exercise: Evaluate your organisation’s maintenance approach and identify opportunities for strategic improvement

Day — 2 Maintenance Activities and Resource Optimisation

• Understanding the concepts of core and non-core maintenance activities
• Applying decision frameworks to determine in-house versus outsourced maintenance requirements
• Examining the impact of outsourcing on cost, capability, quality, and risk management
• Developing balanced resource allocation models to optimise maintenance performance
• Applying strategies to maintain technical competency and operational integrity while controlling costs
• Exercise: Classify maintenance activities as core or non-core and identify opportunities for resource optimisation

Day — 3 Cost-Effective and Sustainable Maintenance Strategies

• Understanding cost optimisation principles and life-cycle value in maintenance management
• Integrating sustainability into maintenance planning, including:
  • Environmental impact
  • Energy efficiency
  • Asset longevity
• Benchmarking maintenance practices and cost structures against leading oil and gas and asset-intensive industries
• Exploring advanced maintenance models and their applications:
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM)
  • Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)
• Applying maintenance performance metrics for decision-making and continuous improvement, including:
  • Availability metrics
  • Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Exercise: Develop a high-level cost-effective maintenance strategy for a sample operation

Day — 4 Outsourcing Control and Risk Management

• Understanding governance principles for effective maintenance management
• Establishing control mechanisms and KPIs for outsourced maintenance, including:
  • Performance-based contracts
  • Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Integrating outsourced service providers with key business functions, including:
  • Operations
  • Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)
  • Finance
• Applying strategies to manage operational and contractual risks, including:
  • Compliance risks
  • Safety risks
  • Supply chain risks
• Developing effective stakeholder communication practices to support maintenance governance
• Exercise: Design a governance and performance management framework for an outsourced maintenance function

Day — 5 Digital Integration and Strategic Transformation

• Understanding the impact of digital technologies on maintenance performance and service delivery, including:
  • Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
  • Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
  • IoT-enabled monitoring
• Applying methods for capturing, managing, and retaining institutional knowledge through digital platforms
• Exploring the use of data analytics and dashboards to support predictive maintenance and informed decision-making
• Understanding change management principles for successful digital transformation in maintenance operations
• Leveraging digital solutions to improve asset reliability, operational efficiency, and long-term maintenance performance
• Exercise: Develop a high-level digital integration plan for a maintenance operation

Learning Outcomes

After completing the Advanced Maintenance for Engineering Managers course, you will be able to:

• Understand the strategic role of maintenance in supporting organisational performance, asset management, and business objectives.
• Evaluate and design effective maintenance delivery models, including in-house, outsourced, and hybrid approaches.
• Distinguish between core and non-core maintenance activities to optimise resource allocation and outsourcing decisions.
• Develop cost-effective and sustainable maintenance strategies that improve operational efficiency and asset life-cycle value.
• Benchmark maintenance practices against industry standards to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Establish governance and control mechanisms for outsourced maintenance through performance-based contracts, KPIs, and risk management.
• Integrate maintenance functions with key business units to enhance collaboration, accountability, and operational performance.
• Apply digital tools and data analytics to improve maintenance reporting, support predictive decision-making, and drive long-term maintenance excellence.

Who Should Attend

This programme is ideal for:

• Engineering and maintenance managers responsible for asset reliability and operational performance
• Asset management directors overseeing long-term asset strategies and lifecycle optimisation
• Heads of maintenance strategy involved in planning and improving maintenance operations
• Operations managers responsible for production continuity and maintenance integration
• Project and contract managers managing maintenance projects and outsourced service providers
• Technical and support managers seeking to enhance maintenance efficiency and asset performance
• Senior executives and decision-makers responsible for maintenance governance, resource allocation, and organisational performance
• Professionals working in the oil and gas sector and other asset-intensive industries who wish to strengthen their strategic maintenance and engineering management capabilities