Maintenance Best Practice Training
4-day, City & Guilds accredited course in Reading, Solihull, on-site or online.
Practical maintenance principles to improve reliability, efficiency and control.
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WHY THIS COURSEMany organisations operate maintenance activities without a clear framework or consistent standards. This course explains the principles of maintenance best practice, helping delegates understand how effective maintenance supports safety, reliability, cost control and asset performance. It provides practical guidance that can be applied immediately to strengthen maintenance systems and processes.
Understand what good maintenance looks like and how to apply it
WHO IS IT FOR
Maintenance Supervisors and Team Leaders
Engineers and Technicians
Operations and Production Managers
Organisations Looking to Improve Maintenance Standards
This Course is ideal for:
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- Maintenance Strategy: How to develop and align strategic planning and deployment
- Reliability Management: How to deliver optimum levels of performance
- Failure Analysis: Understand the Failure Process, Reliability Patterns and Root Causes of Failure
- Maintenance Approaches: Understand the different types of maintenance approaches and tasks and the application of Condition Monitoring technologies in modern maintenance
- Asset Criticality: The need for and uses of asset criticality along with the principles and stages of an asset criticality assessment
- FMECA and REM: How to develop maintenance plans to reduce the risk of failure
- Work Management: The importance and advantages of work planning in the context of effective reliability management
- Spare Parts and Materials Management: MROM (Maintenance Repair and Operating Materials) and how to improve cost and use, reducing inventory
- Cost Management and Reporting: How to analyse and manage cost and establish the value added by maintenance
- Information Systems including CMMS: The information systems required by maintenance and the importance of an effective CMMS to support delivery of World-Class performance
- Operator Asset Care (OAC): Understand the principles and the culture change required when implementing OAC
- Performance Reports and Continuous Improvement: Understand the use of metrics to monitor and manage performance and how this supports the Continuous Improvement (CI) process
- Training: How to assess training levels and requirements, identify the skills and competencies required for asset management tasks and delivery of training and skills development
- Continuous Improvement in maintenance: Develop a sustainable and embedded CI culture
- Working with Service Providers: Understand the different contract types, the contract review process and how to work with service providers to ensure best possible service delivery
- Safety Management: Understand the responsibilities of the maintenance/ engineering manager in the control of Health and Safety at work and the appropriate methods to implement a safety monitoring process on-site
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By the end of this course, you will be able to:
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMESUnderstand the key components of maintenance best practice
Recognise the impact of reactive versus planned maintenance
Identify improvements in maintenance structure, roles and accountability
Understand the importance of planning, scheduling and performance measurement
Apply practical principles to improve maintenance effectiveness
Support continuous improvement within maintenance teams
Is this not what you’re looking for?
MCP Management Training specialises in bespoke courses tailored to your needs.
Alternatively, these are other courses for new and aspiring team leaders:
THE BENEFITSFor Individuals
Clear understanding of recognised maintenance best practice
Increased confidence in identifying improvement opportunities
Practical frameworks that can be applied immediately
Strong foundation for further maintenance or asset management development
THE BENEFITSFor Organisations
More consistent and structured maintenance practices
Improved reliability and operational performance
Reduced reactive maintenance and inefficiency
Stronger alignment between maintenance and business objectives
What Our
Delegates Are Saying
TESTIMONIALS“The training course covers a wide range of practical knowledges and excellent for different levels of personnel working in the engineering field. Highly recommended for engineers and managers!”
— Edward Chow
“Fantastic development, professional production and engaging material. Our maintenance leaders are benefitting from a mix of refresher and new learning, reinforcing, improving and challenging our maintenance thinking and approach. MCP are breaking through pandemic constraints and facilitating continual development in a flexible and accessible way. Well done the team at MCP”
— Phil Mason | Severn Trent Water
“A great insight to engineering best practices, The course content is detailed and engaging. Thanks!”
- Chris Kirkwood
This course is delivered by senior consultants from MCP Consulting Group, all of whom bring extensive hands-on experience in maintenance planning, scheduling and operational improvement. Our trainers work with organisations across a wide range of industries, helping them improve work preparation, increase schedule compliance and enhance maintenance efficiency through practical, structured planning processes.
Rather than academic theory, delegates benefit from practical insight drawn from real-world assignments, proven methodologies and decades of combined industry experience. Every trainer is highly skilled at translating complex concepts into clear, actionable learning that can be applied immediately back in the workplace.
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Frequently
Asked Questions
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Typically delivered as a 4-day course.
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The course is suitable for maintenance supervisors, engineers, team leaders and managers seeking a broader understanding of maintenance best practice and structured improvement.
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The course focuses on maintenance management and operational best practice rather than detailed engineering theory. It is designed to be practical, accessible and applicable across industries.
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Yes. The course can be delivered at your organisation and tailored to your assets, systems and operating environment to ensure relevance and practical application.
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Maintenance Best Practice provides a broader overview of effective maintenance principles and frameworks. It complements more focused courses such as Maintenance Management Practices and Maintenance Planning & Scheduling by reinforcing structured, consistent approaches.