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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Clarify maintenance requirements
   • Equipment specifications, service requirements and workplace procedures are checked for recommended maintenance intervals and processes
   • Special requirements for maintenance are separated from normal lubrication, adjustment and maintenance schedules
   • Comparisons with previous experience, future equipment use, production requirements and standard operating procedures are made
   • An outline plan for maintenance and a related work schedule are identified and developed
2. Establish maintenance systems
   • Costing for process is identified based on work schedule, equipment manufacturer recommendations, charges for materials, equipment and consumables, and external/internal labour charges
   • Required production interruptions, processes and procedures are documented and recorded
   • Maintenance providers are identified
   • Maintenance systems options are analysed and recommendations processed to management
   • Approvals for the maintenance systems concepts and resources are obtained
3. Organise maintenance activities
   • Work health and safety (WHS) requirements, including personal protection needs, are observed throughout the work
   • Production schedules and staff rosters are checked to identify times when the maintenance process may be scheduled, including optimum timing for shutdown
   • Permission from supervisory personnel is obtained for timing of maintenance to optimise the maintenance process and production
   • Detailed work plans are developed in accordance with production schedules covering the availability of expertise and scheduling of resource availability
   • Employees with the required competencies are identified and, where necessary, appropriate training and assessment are facilitated
   • Approvals for production schedule, employee work pattern and maintenance schedule adjustments are obtained
   • Work plan is refined to ensure the maintenance program will maintain workplace outputs in terms of workplace policy
4. Resource maintenance requirements
   • Required consumables for maintenance and their reliable supply is established
   • Externally sourced equipment is determined and supply arranged
5. Complete maintenance procedures
   • Maintenance work schedule is completed following the work plan
   • Appropriate readings, measurements and recordings are made and compared to equipment, product and other relevant specifications
   • Areas requiring further testing are identified and appropriate procedures for testing recommended to supervisory staff
   • Appropriate adjustments to the work schedule plan are made based on experience and documentation completed
   • Maintenance records are completed and forwarded to appropriate personnel
   • Areas where changes to equipment operation or routine maintenance are required to maintain optimum work output and equipment life are noted

Range Statement

Specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included. Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.
Unit context includes:	WHS requirements, including legislation, building codes, material safety management systems, hazardous and dangerous goods codes, and local safe operating procedures or equivalent work is carried out in accordance with legislative obligations, environmental legislation, relevant health regulations, manual handling procedures and organisation insurance requirements work requires individuals to demonstrate conceptual and analytical ability, discretion, judgement and problem solving and is generally performed with little external assistance and with minimal supervision or direction work activities of other employees are supervised and assistance to others is provided customers are normally internal
Machines and equipment include:	microprocessor or computer-controlled machines production and facility equipment used in the enterprise
Personal protective equipment includes:	that prescribed under legislation, regulations and enterprise policies and practices
Information and procedures include:	work procedures/instructions manufacturer specifications and instructions standard forms of workplace process and procedures organisation work specifications and requirements legislation, regulations and codes of practice quality and Australian Standards and procedures

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Performance Evidence

Collect, organise and understand information related to furnishing work instructions and work orders and safety procedures

Apply safe handling requirements for equipment, products and materials, including use of personal protective equipment

Identify materials used in the work process

Follow work instructions, operating procedures and inspection processes to:

minimise the risk of injury to self or others

prevent damage to goods, equipment and products

maintain required production output and product quality

Establish the maintenance program for a real or simulated significant production operation, including:

coordination of maintenance within the context of production schedules

identification of resource requirements for maintenance, including skills of employees involved

recording and reporting requirements to provide system visibility and accountability potential

Complete a benefit analysis of an existing and significant maintenance program and suggest improvements to maintenance operations and, where authorised, negotiate changes

Use mathematical ideas and techniques to correctly complete measurements, calculate area and estimate material requirements

Lead others and work effectively to improve production quality and outcomes

Communicate ideas and information to enable confirmation of work requirements and specifications and the reporting of work outcomes and problems, interpret basic plans and follow safety procedures

Use workplace technology related to the coordination, including communication equipment, time and management aids and other measuring devices

Avoid backtracking, work flow interruptions or wastage

Work with others and in a team by recognising dependencies and using cooperative approaches to optimise work flow and productivity and encourage participation of employees in the planning of work activities and changes

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Knowledge Evidence

Contemporary equipment maintenance theories covering benefits and costs

The effects of production schedules, time and resource requirements when scheduling the maintenance process

Risk analysis processes

Company operating procedures, including procedures for maintenance

Operation requirements of equipment and work systems in the work area

Competency requirements of the work activities

Relevant WHS requirements

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