Following the recent post on generator maintenance schedules, we have received requests about engineer training, empowering your engineers to take on more of the maintenance tasks.
Increasing engineer skills, becoming more self sufficient
One prominent area affecting most companies is the focus on increasing profits by reducing costs which has led to reviews of maintenance schedules and keeping more work in-house.
Whilst it’s true that there are highly skilled and experienced engineers within maintenance teams, there are also many with limited experience, which makes this a difficult one to get right.
Clearly there is a balance to be found here; and it’s an important one. You need the job done right and safely, but you’re also needing to meet cost reduction targets.
One potential way of doing this is by upskilling your engineers, improving their awareness and skills whilst also assessing their level of competency and the potential risks of having them perform the work.
Six Step Training Checklist
If training is something that you’ve been considering in an effort to upskill your staff and cut costs, we’ve put together a six-step checklist to help you work out whether training your staff to perform a specific task is a sensible thing to do:
- What are the overall maintenance requirements for your equipment? (Our maintenance guide here could help with this)
- How much of this would you like to be carried out by your own engineers?
- Will they have the opportunity to reach the required competency levels with the amount of exposure to the equipment? Without significant experience, the training can only take someone so far
- Will you have coverage across all shifts, including back-up personnel?
- How much experience and training do your engineers already have?
- Develop a training plan to fill the shortfalls between requirements and current skills
If you’d like some help looking into critical skills requirements, or training plans, drop us an email and we’ll schedule some time.
As you know we work hand-in-hand with Quartzelec, which means we can offer specialist training programmes using our engineering expertise in both electrical and diesel engine fields; so whatever you need, get in contact and we’ll see whether we can help.
