Maintenance Engineer

☛ Keep shop floor clean, free from oil and other slippery materials.

☛ Wear proper dress and avoid loose clothing and loose hair.

☛ Wear shoes and avoid chapels.

☛ Avoid playing, loose talk and funning inside the shop floor.

☛ Keep good housekeeping and put all unnecessary items and rejected items in scrap box.

☛ Learn everything about the machine before starting and clear all the doubts.

☛ Keep a safe distance from rotating and sliding parts.

☛ Never store inflammable materials inside or around the shop.

☛ Never play with electricity, fire, parts with sharp edge etc.

☛ Keep fire buckets and extinguishers ready for use.

☛ How do you go about allocating work to subordinates?

☛ How do you ensure others have understood your instructions?

☛ Imagine a manager asks you whether it’s better to replace or repair a certain machine. How would you determine the answer?

☛ If there was a very important repair to be done that might exceed the allocated budget, what would you do?

☛ Imagine you need to create a training plan for new employees. What should they be trained in?

☛ If a contractor you hired had an accident while working, what would you do?

☛ What do you enjoy most in this job?

☛ What kind of maintenance duties did you undertake in your previous position?

☛ What does ISO 14001 refer to?

☛ What’s your experience with HVAC systems?

☛ How familiar are you with Preventive Maintenance Regulations?

☛ What’s your experience with PLC?

☛ Have you done electrical system repairs in the past?

☛ Tell me about a time you successfully coached a maintenance technician

☛ Describe a time you failed to provide good leadership. Why did that happen and what did you learn from the experience?

☛ Recall a time when you had to solve a problem without input from a manager. How did you handle it and what happened in the end?

☛ Give an example of a time you managed to identify and fix a problem before it became urgent

☛ Tell me about a time you hired personnel (e.g. maintenance technicians). How did you go about it and what qualities did you look for?

Controlling activities of maintenance management include the following:

☛ Work Control

☛ Inventory Control

☛ Cost Control

☛ Quality Control.

Work control is done using work order system in an integrated data base system for controlling reporting and analyzing. Intelligent maintenance systems are developed and integrated with ERP systems are commonly used and proven to be efficient and effective.

Inventory control is an important element of maintenance management that ensures the availability of spare parts and tools in the right quantity at the right time. Ordering and re-ordering quantities taking into consideration costs and lead times are built into automated information systems to assist management in this task by raising red flags at reorder points.

Cost control involves tracing all cost components of maintenance activities that include direct maintenance costs, lost production, equipment degradation, backups, and over maintenance costs.

Quality control of maintenance work involves assuring that the maintenance work is following standards and producing the expected results. Control is done by the supervision and testing final outcomes following a predetermined control procedure.

The primary principles upon which RCM is based are the following:

☛ Function oriented. It seeks to preserve system or equipment function.

☛ Device group focused. It is concerned with maintaining the overall functionality of a group of devices rather than an individual device.

☛ Reliability centred. It uses failure statistics in an actuarial manner to look at the relationship between operating age and the failures. RCM is not overly concerned with simple failure rate; it seeks to know the probability of failure at specific ages.

☛ Acknowledges design limitations. Its objective is to maintain the inherent reliability of the equipment design, recognizing that changes in reliability are the province of design rather than maintenance. Maintenance can only achieve and maintain the level provided for by design.

☛ Driven by safety and economics. Safety must be ensured at any cost; thereafter, cost-effectiveness becomes the criterion.

☛ Defines failure as any unsatisfactory condition. Therefore, failure may be either a loss of function (operation ceases) or a loss of acceptable quality (operation continues).

☛ Uses a logic tree to screen maintenance tasks. This provides a consistent approach to the maintenance of all kinds of equipment.

☛ Tasks must be applicable. The tasks must address the failure mode and consider the failure mode characteristics.

☛ Tasks must be effective. The tasks must reduce the probability of failure and be cost effective.

☛ Acknowledges two types of Maintenance tasks and Run-to-failure. The tasks are Interval (Time- or Cycle-)-Based and Condition-Based. In RCM, Run-to-Failure is a conscious decision and is acceptable for some equipment.

☛ A living system. It gathers data from the results achieved and feeds this data back to improve future maintenance. This feedback is an important part of the Proactive Maintenance element of the RCM program.