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Maintenance

Maintenance technician

You keep assets running and safe to work on. A good technician fixes the fault; a great one leaves a record that prevents the next one.

Routine

Daily

  • Isolate before work: lockout/tagout per the procedure
  • Execute PMs and record readings, not just 'OK'
  • Close out work orders with cause, action and parts
  • Inspection round on your assigned assets

Weekly

  • Lubrication route
  • Vibration checks on critical rotating equipment

Monthly+

  • Review repeat failures on your assets with the reliability engineer

Your kit, task by task

  • PM executionDaily · Document generator
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  • Work order close-outDaily · Template
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  • Inspection roundDaily · Checklist
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  • Shift handover (maintenance)Daily · Document generator
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  • Lubrication routeWeekly · Document generator
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  • Vibration checkWeekly · Calculator · Vibration Severity (ISO 10816/20816)
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  • LOTO before work (work control)When it happens · Document generator
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  • Bearing life estimateWhen it happens · Calculator · Bearing Life (L10) Calculator
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  • Failure codingWhen it happens · Template
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KPIs you are measured on

Wrench time

Share of a technician's shift spent hands-on doing the work, measured by work sampling — not by CMMS bookings.

Formula Wrench time = Observations 'working' ÷ Total observations × 100

Top pains and how to handle them

Procedures missing or out of date

Write the job down the first time you do it properly, with photos, and send it to the planner for the job library.

Close-outs too vague to analyse

Record what failed, why you think it failed, what you did, and which part — four short fields beat a paragraph.

Time lost waiting for parts and permits

Ask for kitted jobs and flag missing items on the work order so the planner can fix the pattern.

Recommended reading

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