Supervisor School

This course assists Supervisors of maintenance teams with their dual purpose: to ensure that work by the maintenance teams is delivered safely on time and with requisite quality; and to provide immediate advice back to the organisation on equipment-based risks which can lead to operational downtime. The first is an essential leadership role and the second recognises that Supervisors must have the appropriate technical knowledge and experience to understand the equipment their teams work on. Participation in this course will help Supervisors balance their time between administration duties that support their team and its workflow with walking the sites, observing potential problems and driving continual improvement.

Course Outline

2 Days

8 Core Modules

Leadership in Work Management

Leading people and communicating goals
Safety management in everything we do
Moving on from breakdowns and continuous urgent work
Prioritising the time of a Supervisor – what is a good day

Managing New Work

Assessing risk to be addressed by new work
Job estimation and scoping
Making the case for the required date
Coping with break-in work and shifting to planned work

Supervision in Maintenance Workflow

Value of long term schedules for the team
Protecting the schedule for the week
Placing the right work with the team members
Ensuring necessary feedback from completed work

Reporting for Supervisors

Standard reports used by Supervisors
Purpose of KPI's and explaining them to the team
Using reports in standard meetings and team communications
Special investigations and who can help with information

Delivering the Maintenance Strategy

Understanding fmea and pm development
Importance of good maintenance practices
Stop the tick and flick pm
Understanding and then acting on risks identified by inspections

Workplace Observations

Identifying and acting on safety risks
Planning and work delivery quality
Using information from job observations
Enhancing team awareness

Improving the Team

Addressing maintenance induced problems
Leading a united team for effective work
Improve equipment performance and reliability
Implementing team improvement plans

Personal Improvement

Role of the Supervisor in continuous improvement
Improving the performance of a maintenance department
Managing stakeholders and their needs
Improvement plans for Supervisors

Student Expectations

The key expectation of people attending this course is that they want to understand the equipment being worked on and manage down risk by ensuring it is kept in good condition with the resources available. It is important that the Supervisor does not accept breakdowns as the norm and that there is a better way than rushing to every job.

People attending the course should have some knowledge or seek to gain insights in the following. This is what they want to learn and develop by attending this course.

• Experienced in leading technical personnel who deliver maintenance work.

Driving the message of safety first and why it is important – walking the walk in safety.
Cope with alternative views and even conflict between people on how work should be delivered.
Manage the expectations of both the people they supervise and the leadership team of the facility in which they work.
Bring common sense to prioritising what needs to be done with the equipment.

• Understand the basics of work management including how work is processed from identification through planning and scheduling to execution and close out.

Effective prioritisation of work and communicating the priorities.
Avoiding frustration and being listened to on what is important.
Managing personal time to get to the right meetings and to participate effectively.
Delegating to senior people who are mentored to share the work load in supervising the team.

• Work with a modern work management system and used electronic reports on schedules and open work lists.

Avoid wasting time on unnecessary tasks.
Understand how to seek and ensure help is available to make systems work for the team and not the other way around.

• Ensure supervised personal deliver the maintenance strategy, understanding how it is generated from the information system.

Walking down the maintenance work sites to ensure the safety and quality of work.
Debottleneck wasteful activities such as waiting for something.
Help people understand what they are seeing in the equipment they work on and alongside – where is the risk and what do they need to do about it?

Course Objectives

Snapshot

Leadership in Work Management

Managing New Work

Supervision in Maintenance Workflow

Reporting for Supervisors

Delivering the Maintenance Strategy

Workplace Observations

Improving the Team

Personal Improvement

Your Instructors

Brian Ropitini

Director

Ara Ake, New Zealand

Accomplished facilitator, coach & mentor. Fitter & turner turned senior leader. Led multi-million-ton methanol plants & global teams at Methanex. Exceptional communicator & visionary.

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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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Mike Greyling

Adjunct Principal

Covaris

Seasoned asset management leader with 35+ years in aviation, smelting, mining. Proven excellence in maintenance, reliability, risk management, stakeholder engagement, Six Sigma expertise, SAP leadership.

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Supervisor School

Auckland NZ

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2025-05-15

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2025

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2025

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2025-10-23

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2025

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2025-11-24

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2025

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