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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Verify maintenance requirements
   • Check equipment specifications, service requirements and recommended maintenance intervals.
   • Separate special maintenance requirements from normal lubrication, adjustment and day-to-day maintenance requirements.
   • Identify organisational production requirements and equipment use.
2. Establish maintenance systems
   • Identify costs for labour, and charges for equipment and consumables based on equipment manufacturer recommendations.
   • Document production interruptions and processes for shutdown period.
   • Specify internal and external maintenance providers.
   • Analyse maintenance system options and report recommendations to appropriate personnel.
   • Obtain approvals for maintenance system concepts and resources.
   • Analyse existing maintenance schedules to determine improvements and develop updated maintenance program and schedule.
3. Organise maintenance schedules
   • Check production schedules and staff rosters to determine optimal shutdown period for maintenance activities.
   • Allocate employees with required competencies to maintenance activities.
   • Develop detailed maintenance work plans in line with production schedules, and availability of expertise and resources.
   • Obtain approvals to schedule maintenance according to optimal shutdown period.
   • Refine work plans to maintain production outputs.
   • Procure and coordinate internal and external equipment, consumables and expertise to meet maintenance work schedule.
4. Coordinate maintenance activities
   • Coordinate implementation of maintenance activities to meet maintenance work schedule.
   • Take appropriate readings, measurements and recordings and compare to equipment specifications.
   • Identify and monitor areas requiring further testing, and make recommendations to appropriate personnel.
   • Adjust and record maintenance work schedules according to approved recommendations.
   • Complete maintenance records and reports and forward to appropriate personnel.

Range Statement

Not Applicable

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Performance Evidence

A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit. If a specific volume or frequency is not stated below, then evidence must be provided that the following requirements have been performed on at least one occasion:

develop and document whole of organisational maintenance schedules for an operational period of three months

develop work plans for the maintenance of individual pieces of static equipment to include:

maintenance sequence

use of consumables

labour requirements

take appropriate readings, measurements and recordings and compare to equipment specifications.

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Knowledge Evidence

A person competent in this unit must be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

types of organisational equipment subject to maintenance and time taken to complete processes

features of different types of maintenance:

scheduled proactive

unscheduled reactive

emergency repairs

methods used to schedule maintenance to minimise production downtime and according to availability of maintenance staff and equipment

format, content and use of:

maintenance schedules

maintenance work plans

maintenance records and reports

location and key aspects of :

manufacturers’ equipment specifications including those for service requirements and maintenance intervals

testing and certification requirements and schedules for organisational equipment

sources of information on:

costs for maintenance labour, equipment and consumables

staff maintenance skills

organisational production schedules

organisational procedures specific to planning and completing maintenance:

communication reporting lines

recording and reporting maintenance schedules, work plans and outcomes.

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