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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare maintenance policies
   • Identify and quantify maintenance costs, including the cost of poor maintenance procedures
   • Negotiate and confirm management commitment to a productive maintenance strategy
   • Benchmark enterprise performance against agreed standards, and develop maintenance policies and priorities
   • Develop maintenance system goals through negotiation with stakeholders
   • Establish communication strategies to build positive workforce attitude and commitment to maintenance
2. Implement maintenance management system
   • Identify and secure resource requirements and include them in enterprise budgets and operational plans
   • Determine location of the maintenance function and/or team within enterprise structures
   • Determine profile of the maintenance function and/or team within enterprise structures
   • Clarify roles and responsibilities of equipment users and the maintenance team and include them in position descriptions and work instructions
   • Provide mentoring and training in the use and care of technology and equipment to support the maintenance strategy
   • Prepare maintenance procedures and schedules to minimise negative impacts on production, costs, waste and the environment
   • Develop and maintain record keeping systems
   • Analyse potential risks and recommend management strategies
   • Prepare contingency plans in collaboration with the workforce, suppliers and customers
   • Effectively communicate maintenance schedules and procedures to the team
3. Monitor and review maintenance management system
   • Develop continuous improvement strategies
   • Determine performance criteria for maintenance goals and establish data collection strategies
   • Analyse performance information and outcomes and report implications to stakeholders
4. Prepare maintenance policies
   • Identify and quantify maintenance costs, including the cost of poor maintenance procedures
   • Negotiate and confirm management commitment to a productive maintenance strategy
   • Benchmark enterprise performance against agreed standards, and develop maintenance policies and priorities
   • Develop maintenance system goals through negotiation with stakeholders
   • Establish communication strategies to build positive workforce attitude and commitment to maintenance
5. Implement maintenance management system
   • Identify and secure resource requirements and include them in enterprise budgets and operational plans
   • Determine location of the maintenance function and/or team within enterprise structures
   • Determine profile of the maintenance function and/or team within enterprise structures
   • Clarify roles and responsibilities of equipment users and the maintenance team and include them in position descriptions and work instructions
   • Provide mentoring and training in the use and care of technology and equipment to support the maintenance strategy
   • Prepare maintenance procedures and schedules to minimise negative impacts on production, costs, waste and the environment
   • Develop and maintain record keeping systems
   • Analyse potential risks and recommend management strategies
   • Prepare contingency plans in collaboration with the workforce, suppliers and customers
   • Effectively communicate maintenance schedules and procedures to the team
6. Monitor and review maintenance management system
   • Develop continuous improvement strategies
   • Determine performance criteria for maintenance goals and establish data collection strategies
   • Analyse performance information and outcomes and report implications to stakeholders

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

Evidence must demonstrate the candidate's consistency of performance over time under normal operating conditions.

The candidate must:

consult with key personnel, people on the floor, delegates, suppliers, contractors and equipment manufacturers to determine appropriate maintenance strategies, procedures and schedules

develop maintenance policies and strategies, including establishment of criteria for determining maintenance priorities and planning and scheduling routine equipment and overhead maintenance to meet quality system requirements

establish and monitor performance targets for maintenance teams within performance planning and appraisal processes

develop workforce commitment to effective maintenance strategies, including implementing strategies for devolving the identification of maintenance needs to the floor, developing consultative and cooperative problem-solving strategies, and negotiating changes in work practices

develop secure record keeping procedures to document maintenance costs, problems, priorities, solutions, schedules and completions

apply relevant communication and mathematical skills

evaluate and recommend alternative maintenance policies and strategies, including evaluation of the costs and benefits of internal and consultant service models, changes in work roles and responsive/preventative models for maintenance

determine and recommend the need for capital expenditure to replace plant and equipment

identify and apply relevant workplace health and safety, environmental, regulatory and workplace requirements

manage maintenance costs, including determining total maintenance costs based on maintenance service cost and machine breakdown cost, setting, justifying, and achieving maintenance budgets

monitor performance of the system, including establishing indicators, setting up data collection strategies, analysing data to identify trends and isolate problems or problem areas, and measuring progress against targets

prepare and implement contingency plans for dealing with risks, including equipment breakdowns and failures, and negotiation with production personnel

present reports according to legal and enterprise requirements

review maintenance strategies and goals within the enterprise, continuous improvement and planning processes.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate an in depth technical and theoretical knowledge of:

plant and equipment falling under the scope of the maintenance program, including steam generation systems, refrigeration systems, water and effluent systems, processing and production equipment, and building

maintenance issues related to the enterprise and their impact on the productivity of the plant

cost elements in maintenance system costing and budgeting

relevant legislation and regulations (including food safety and food standards), and industrial agreements, and explain the implications for plant and equipment maintenance

costs resulting from poor maintenance and the benefits of a preventative maintenance system

impacts of poor maintenance on meat safety, meat and/or product quality, occupational and environmental safety

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