Elements and Performance Criteria
- Facilitate the development of process and competitive manufacturing knowledge
- Ensure necessary technical documentation and information about the process and competitive manufacturing is available to the team
- Develop mentoring processes for team members
- Structure team activities in a way which facilitates the ongoing development of the skills and knowledge of team members
- Arrange for the provision of workforce development and training for team members as appropriate
- Encourage team members to apply technical knowledge to the process.
- Facilitate efficiency improvements in team activities
- Ensure budgets, operating procedures and other related documentation is available to the team
- Assist team members apply this information to the process responsibilities of the team
- Encourage team members to identify waste
- Develop an environment where efficiency improvements are recommended by team members
- Resource and encourage a proactive maintenance approach
- Develop communications between specialists outside the team and team members
- Develop strategies to monitor and deal with key reliability issues
- Resource and encourage team members to identify and take appropriate action on potential equipment problems
- Arrange for workforce development and training for team members as required in proactive maintenance procedures and techniques
- Involve team members in relating identified problems to the maintenance strategy, and developing any required changes, to ensure awareness, learning and commitment
- Implement process and organisation improvements
- Plan the implementation of team suggested and externally directed improvements
- Facilitate team member commitment to, and involvement in, the implementation planning of improvements and to follow improvements to their conclusion
- Encourage the application of the 'plan, do, measure, improve, control' approach to the job
- Arrange for workforce development and training as required to facilitate continued team involvement in improvement processes
- Involve team and other key personnel in identification of skill needs and means of skills acquisition to fill any identified gaps