Course Description
Effective maintenance planning and scheduling is one of the highest-impact levers for improving maintenance productivity, reducing downtime, and controlling cost. This course develops the principles and practical tools of world-class maintenance planning and scheduling.
Participants learn the roles of the planner and scheduler, work identification and prioritisation, job planning and estimating, scheduling against capacity, and the KPIs used to measure and improve planning performance. The course turns reactive, fire-fighting maintenance into proactive, planned work that maximises the productive use of maintenance resources.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the principles and value of maintenance planning and scheduling
- Distinguish the roles of planner and scheduler
- Manage work identification, prioritisation, and the backlog
- Plan and estimate maintenance jobs effectively
- Schedule work against resource capacity
- Coordinate with operations and materials
- Apply planning and scheduling KPIs
- Improve maintenance productivity through planning
How the course is delivered
The course combines planning and scheduling principles with practical planning, estimating, and scheduling exercises. Participants work through realistic backlog, job planning, and scheduling scenarios.
The programme emphasises the practical discipline that turns reactive maintenance into planned, productive work.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Maintenance planners and schedulers
- Maintenance supervisors and managers
- Reliability and operations professionals
- Those establishing a planning function
- Anyone improving maintenance productivity
Daily programme
- Why planning and scheduling matters
- Reactive versus planned maintenance
- Roles of planner and scheduler
- The planning and scheduling process
- Work identification and requests
- Prioritisation and the backlog
- Job planning and scoping
- Estimating labour and materials
- Scheduling principles
- Capacity and resource planning
- Weekly and daily scheduling
- Coordination with operations
- Materials and parts coordination
- Kitting and staging
- Shutdown and turnaround planning basics
- Contractor coordination
- Planning and scheduling KPIs
- Measuring schedule compliance and wrench time
- Continuous improvement
- Case study workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
