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Hello everyone it has been a long time since I wrote on the society....now i have been hired to maintenance manager so I want to ask about the best hierarchy structure for maintenance department....to keep in touch i have a good experienced engineer...2 maintenance engineer one electrical and one mechanical....5 maintenance technicians....5 operation engineers and 10 operation technician so ill be happy if any one can advise me

Hello Karim and congrats on the new job!

I'll give you mine and my company's 5 cents.   

1.  Define the work process for work management (Daily/ weekly & Shutdown) & materials management (others if you have time RCFA, PM development, Essential care, engineering projects etc).  Make sure you include TASKS in the workflow and WHAT ROLE is executing each task (Optionally responsible, Informed and Consulted as well).
2.  Now you have the key tasks for each role and this will give you a core JOB DESCRIPTION for key roles
3.  At this point, you can design an organization chart, because you know the responsibilities for each role.

Many will have an opinion on the BEST organization, but in my experience it is situational depending on how you, operations, and engineering decide to work together.  For example, will planner do purchases or will purchasing?  Will you have an inspector or will everyone inspect equipment?  Who will be the central point to collect and do a suggested prioritization of all work requests?  Will operators do essential equipment care?  Who cleans equipment?  Who schedules hourly craftspeople's work?  When is the schedule posted? The list goes on and are done differently in plants.

Best Regards,



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Torbjorn Idhammar
President & CEO
IDCON, Inc.
http://www.idcon.com
Raleigh NC
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Thank you Mr.Torbjon for you help this is very clear

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KarimMohamed Ezzeldean

CMRP
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-24-2022
From: Torbjorn Idhammar
Subject: RE: Hierarchy Structure

Hello Karim and congrats on the new job!

I'll give you mine and my company's 5 cents.   

1.  Define the work process for work management (Daily/ weekly & Shutdown) & materials management (others if you have time RCFA, PM development, Essential care, engineering projects etc).  Make sure you include TASKS in the workflow and WHAT ROLE is executing each task (Optionally responsible, Informed and Consulted as well).
2.  Now you have the key tasks for each role and this will give you a core JOB DESCRIPTION for key roles
3.  At this point, you can design an organization chart, because you know the responsibilities for each role.

Many will have an opinion on the BEST organization, but in my experience it is situational depending on how you, operations, and engineering decide to work together.  For example, will planner do purchases or will purchasing?  Will you have an inspector or will everyone inspect equipment?  Who will be the central point to collect and do a suggested prioritization of all work requests?  Will operators do essential equipment care?  Who cleans equipment?  Who schedules hourly craftspeople's work?  When is the schedule posted? The list goes on and are done differently in plants.

Best Regards,



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Torbjorn Idhammar
President & CEO
IDCON, Inc.
http://www.idcon.com
Raleigh NC
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