GS01 - The Professional Maintenance Manager

“The senior leadership training and development support provided by EngPro Solutions has provided our managers and junior leaders with new skills and techniques to manage organisational performance. They are more commercially aware, confident to address poor behaviours and are overall better leaders. Additionally, Howard provided us with in depth analysis and feedback on team status and development – highly useful.”

Darren Willshire, Commercial Director, West

Overview

Presented by experienced leaders; this course is delivered in a workshop style and is designed for the more senior manager in maintenance engineering.

It stretches the leader from junior routes into the true role of leading a department or section.

Key topics:

1.  The Senior manager responsibilities and mindset

2. Ethical leadership

3. Matrix management

4. Adding value to your business through leadership

5. Introduction to strategy and dept planning

6. Succession management

7. Maintenance performance - your part to play

EngPro Approach

This course can be delivered onsite or online, although we prefer onsite. The delegate is immersed in a number of real-life case studies that they use to develop skills they have learnt.

Using in-class exercises, combined with practical application throughout the two days; culminating in the presentation of investigation recommendations. A highly interactive course that delegates thoroughly enjoy, and take much from.

Previous Clients:

“Fantastic delivery. I enjoyed how Howard could pull out a real example from previous industry experience” – Production Manager, London North Pole

“Online factsheet (notes) access very good to review what you have learnt. Great use of practical materials, i.e. board exercises and the slides complimented well.” - Head of Operations, Hitachi Rail Limited

“Presentations were very clear, and much prefer fact sheet online to notes - great” - Senior Production Manager, Hitachi Rail Ltd.

“From a personal perspective I would have preferred the course face-to-face; but online was not bad alternative” Outstation Manager, Virgin Trains Ltd.

Specifications:

Duration: 2 days

Location: Ideally onsite, but can be delivered online

Delivery style: Experienced leader, facilitating your learning and sharing key experience and knowledge

Target Audience: Production Managers; Planning Managers; Materials Managers; Rising stars

Typical co-hort size: 9 to 12 delegates

Key skills learnt:  

  • A recap of core skills

  • The role of the senior manager in adding value to your business

  • The Senior Manager roles and responsibilities - thinking like a ‘senior’

  • The Senior Manger and ethical leadership - what it means and how to achieve it

  • The open mindset approach (Arbinger)

  • Using the Boston Box to develop management thinking

  • Developing a departmental strategy to challenge the status quo

  • Change management

  • The company operating model and approach

  • Matrix management, the advantages and challenges

  • Stakeholder mapping and management

  • Learning culture, and the role the Senior plays in developing it

  • Developing effective and balanced KPI to measure performance

  • Managing remote teams

  • Introduction to employment law for senior managers

  • The Professional Engineering Framework - the Engineering Council

Scoping

  • During scoping with yourselves we select the most effective topics from the above list.

Case studies:

  • Our facilitators have many years experience planning in Aviation, Bus and Rail - they bring several case studies and real-if working examples to allow delegates to immerse themselves in the topic and the reality of planning a complex business.

  • Exercises are used throughout to allow depth of learning.

Accreditation: This course counts 16 hours CPD, for Engineering Council UKSPEC competences C, D and E.

Certification: If requested eCertificates for attendance can be provided.

Examination: This course has no examination, although post workshop activities can be set to allow your company to leverage learning further.

Supporting materials: Life-long access to our extensive delegate resource centre; all materials for the training delivery; all in-class exercises; further reading advice.

Additional costs: Nil - the price we will quote is inclusive of travel, substance and any other associated costs.