Course Overview

Maintenance Shutdowns and Outages Management develops the planning and coordination skills needed to deliver well-prepared maintenance events. The course brings together scope definition, work packaging, scheduling, safety planning, contractor coordination, and materials management. Participants examine how decisions made during preparation support organized execution and a clearly managed return to service.

The program follows the event from initial planning through execution control and post-event review. It explores activity sequencing, critical-path analysis, resource requirements, progress reporting, and the responsibilities shared by maintenance, operations, and contractors. Attention to permit-to-work arrangements and approved isolation procedures connects the schedule with safe work preparation. Participants develop a structured approach to reviewing readiness, coordinating delivery, and carrying lessons forward into the next event.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define shutdown scope, work priorities, and the information required for planning.
• Develop work packages with clear task, resource, and execution requirements.
• Sequence activities and identify the critical path in a shutdown schedule.
• Coordinate contractor responsibilities, material requirements, and site logistics.
• Relate risk assessments, permit-to-work arrangements, and isolation requirements to planned activities.
• Use progress information to support execution decisions and schedule review.
• Organize a post-shutdown review that documents results and actions for future events.

Practical Application

Apply the learning to build a shared plan for safe, coordinated shutdown and outage delivery.

• Clear event readiness: Review work packages, materials, contractor arrangements, and safety preparations against agreed requirements before execution begins.
• Coordinated schedules: Connect activity dependencies and resource needs so participating teams understand the sequence and their contribution to the overall plan.
• Informed execution control: Use progress reports and clear responsibilities to guide decisions during the event and prepare for agreed completion milestones.
• Continuing planning improvement: Capture execution experience and completed-work information in a form that supports the preparation of future shutdowns.