Workshop Overview:

Effective maintenance is dependent on an engaged workforce that shares a common vision and strives for world-class performance. Deficiencies in people skills is perhaps the greatest weakness within the maintenance function. It is incumbent upon the maintenance manager and supervisor to have and practice effective leadership and management skills. This session focuses on providing these skills and practical guidelines that will help them involve and motivate their workforce, and deal with conflicts and other challenges.

Learn more about how the Maintenance Management Certificate Program provides a comprehensive management development program for existing and aspiring maintenance management professionals.

Available Dates:

April 23-24, 2025 — Leadership and Management Skills for Managers and Supervisors

Pricing:

  • Early Bird – $977 (Expires exactly one month prior to program date)
  • Standard – $1,150
  • UA Employee – $977 (Call 205-348-3000)
  • For additional pricing and discounts, visit the registration page.

Who Should Attend?

The program is aimed at current and aspiring maintenance managers, engineers, supervisors and planners, but is applicable to all who have a direct interest in or are affected by maintenance performance and its impact on the enterprise. While the program is maintenance-centric, the methods, standard processes and logic are applicable for all organizational functions. This comprehensive program is applicable to all industries and facilities, as well as for single-plant or global enterprises.

You Will Learn To:

  • Develop a strategic, e.g. long-range, plan that ensures effective support of current and future enterprise business plans
  • Manage for the future instead of continued day-to-day reaction to events
  • Effectively use Gemba to keep touch with internal functions and employees
  • Engage employees and leverage the strengths of natural work teams
  • Create expectations, assign responsibility and enforce accountability
  • Deal with conflicts and confrontation

Unique Workshop Offerings:

This certificate program was developed to provide a practical, best practices approach to maintenance and maintenance management. It is based on current international best practices, and the combined experience of its instructors and other subject matter experts. In addition to international standards, reference materials include:

  • Covey, “The Speed of Trust,” 2006, Free Press
  • Gotoh, “Equipment Planning for TPM, 1991,” Productivity Press
  • Mobley, “Total Plant Performance Management,” 1998, Gulf Publishing
  • Mobley, “Maintenance Engineering Handbook,” 8th Ed., 2014, McGraw-Hill
  • Mobley, “Computer-Managed Maintenance Systems,” 2nd Ed., Gulf Publishing
  • Mobley, “Plant Engineer’s Handbook, 2001,” Butterworth-Heinemann
  • Mobley, “Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers,” 2008, Elsevier
  • Mobley, “Maintenance Fundamentals,” 2nd Ed., 2004, Elsevier
  • Mobley, “Introduction to Predictive Maintenance,” 2nd Ed., 2002, Elsevier
  • Mobley, “Industrial Machinery Repair,” 2003, Elsevier
  • Nakajima, “Introduction to TPM, 1988,” Productivity Press
  • Peters, “A Passion for Excellence, 1985,” Random House
  • Womack, “The Machine That Changed the World, 1991,” Rawson Associates

Workshop Lead:

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Andrew Norman

Andrew Norman has over thirty-five years of experience in the manufacturing industry as a lubrication specialist and manufacturing engineer, college instructor, heavy equipment superintendent, diesel propulsion systems expert, maintenance consultant, and mechanical equipment expert. He has extensive experience in lubrication, maintenance and reliability, manufacturing processes, root cause analysis, process documentation, plant management, maintenance planning and scheduling, and all phases of industrial asset management. Andrew brings a wealth of mechanical maintenance experience and knowledge from manufacturing processes to maintenance execution. His 35 years of manufacturing and maintenance experience at all levels provides a well-rounded expert in the areas of maintenance training, maintenance implementation, maintenance management, and process documentation. He is a PROSCI-certified change management professional. He is also an SME-certified Manufacturing Engineering Technologist, a Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional, and was an ASE-certified Master Mechanic in three separate areas; automotive, heavy-duty trucks, and automotive machining.

Program Manager:

Mary Patterson's PhotoMary Patterson, CPA, SHRM-CP
Phone Number: 205-348-7049

 

Mary Patterson works in the Office of Teaching Innovation and Digital Education at The University of Alabama as Program Manager, where she assists the OTIDE team in designing and implementing professional development and training programs, industrial training programs, and executive education programs.  She is a certified public accountant, as well as a certified professional in the Society for Human Resources Management.  She works closely with HR departments to design custom training to enhance work objectives, increase productivity and build a positive culture.