The Role of the Maintenance Team Leader,

A big thank you to Bell Bay Aluminium for kindly hosting the Role of the Maintenance Team Leader Workshop. It was a great day with the presentations people brought along and the discussions that followed. Bell Bay were quite generous in sharing with the visit to workshops and the insights into the toolbox and great engagement had leading to the safety and performance results.

We had 20 people attend from 6 companies,

• Norske Skog
• Bell Bay Aluminium
• South32
• Simplot
• Cement Australia
• Tasmanian Alkaloids

Come with the aims out of the day,

• How others look after training
• Other profile- role
• Talking about problems and issues and how to pin point
• Networking
• How role works
• What TL does
• Skills
• Deal challenges
• Daily scheduling work
• Get involved
• Safety leadership - toolbox
• Leadership Shopfloor - supervisor
• Execution of systems
• Dealing with issues where not SME eg electrical issues

And leave with the following take always,

• Communication
• Monthly meeting info to toolbox - feedback
• Sense check where at
• Visual toolbox
• Networking internally, learn from each other
• Same issues - work through
• Spare parts organised ready for next week - bell bay Issues as leader
• Tour through workshop
• Simplot guidelines jha take 5
• Motivation techniques, variations gaps
• Self-awareness - behaviours, change
• Challenges not unique

With some more focussed discussions, we broke into smaller groups to discuss issues pertaining to People, Plant and Process as relating to the Maintenance Team leader role and came up with the following learnings,

People

• Self-awareness - trust- communication to team.
• Lead-team-plant Communication - lack off - bad actors- 1:1 - 1 up
• Toolbox - visual displays, white board, get message across
• RAR - results action review/reward. 1M - 6 M
• Mix it up - general business before safety General chit chat to engage - stand up - location?
• Planning - coordination is key
• Regular meetings communicate & share - something to do
• Corporate head office - not practical - get them to deliver, get them involved

 Plant

• Problem solving- rca on 60min dt and repeat offenders capture and share, non-repeat call out
• Tier meetings - quality based on data & info in
• Who to ask - seek out some ask
• Delegate
• Motivation-ownership-plant - engaging and gets input
• Communication across shifts (toolbox) - plant info

 Process

• Safety systems - remedy & feedback
• What impedes resources
• Processes can be unclear - lack of understanding
• Position description - outcomes
• Toolbox process valuable - structure - communication & understanding
• Planning and scheduling processes
• New tasks - involve prior
• Work instructions, well detailed and written and reviewed by team members on the job - time frame
• Direction needed with processes

Many kindly brought along presentations to share their insights on the role,

All presentations made on the day have been uploaded into the SIRF library for access by all SIRF members via the link below and using the search ‘Team Leader’ or key word search of ‘Team’ or ‘Team leader’. If there are any issues in accessing do please get in touch so I can assist,

 http://www.sirfrt.com.au/resource-library

Thank you again to the team at Bell Bay Aluminium to host this session and make possible, thank you also to all those coming together and being most generous with their presentations and being actively involved in discussions and being part of the day to make it what it was.

Don’t miss the culmination of this series is the 20th September Industrial Maintenance Roundtable meeting (1 day conference) on what I am calling The Maintenance Manager's Tool Box. The Maintenance manager's role is an all-encompassing one and this Roundtable will have presentations and opportunity for Roundtable discussion on the things a Maintenance manager can grab out of their toolbox to put to their advantage in delivering strong value.

The Roundtable meeting is on 20th of September at Mulgrave Country Club. With presentations on the Reliability Engineer - one of the most powerful resources a Maintenance Manager could have access, Strategy, KPIs, Leadership, systems and technology and optimising maintenance systems and strategies plus the opportunity for Round table discussion. For more info and to book on follow the Link