Maintenance Planning & Scheduling for Shutdowns and Turnarounds Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Analyze the principles and lifecycle of maintenance planning for shutdowns and turnarounds.
• Develop structured work scopes and work breakdown structures for major maintenance events.
• Prepare detailed and executable maintenance work packages.
• Estimate labor hours, equipment requirements, materials, tools, and specialist resources.
• Develop realistic shutdown and turnaround schedules based on work priorities and dependencies.
• Identify critical path activities, constraints, interfaces, and schedule risks.
• Optimize manpower, equipment, contractors, materials, and work fronts.
• Integrate inspection, maintenance, engineering, procurement, and operations activities into a single execution plan.
• Apply effective progress measurement and schedule control techniques during execution.
• Analyze delays, productivity losses, and schedule deviations and develop recovery actions.
• Improve contractor coordination and resource utilization during turnaround execution.
• Develop performance indicators for measuring planning, scheduling, execution, cost, safety, and schedule performance.

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Learning Outcomes

• Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• Explain the complete maintenance planning and scheduling lifecycle for shutdowns and turnarounds.
• Develop comprehensive and clearly defined turnaround work scopes.
• Structure turnaround activities using appropriate work breakdown structures.
• Prepare detailed job plans and work packages for maintenance activities.
• Estimate labor, materials, tools, equipment, and specialist requirements.
• Develop logical and resource-loaded turnaround schedules.
• Identify critical path activities and schedule-driving work.
• Manage work dependencies, constraints, interfaces, and execution priorities.
• Coordinate contractors, suppliers, operations, inspection, engineering, and maintenance teams.
• Establish effective material and equipment readiness processes.
• Measure actual progress against planned progress and identify deviations.
• Apply schedule recovery and productivity improvement techniques.
• Develop turnaround performance indicators and reporting mechanisms.
• Identify planning and execution risks before they affect the critical schedule.
• Develop an integrated shutdown and turnaround execution plan.

Course Outline