Maintenance manager, Head of maintenance.

The maintenance manager is the person in charge of managing overall maintenance in the company, coordinating a group of qualified individuals in various tasks (mechanics, electricity, electronics, IT...). This person is in charge of covering the preventative and predictive maintenance plan of all company facilities (production or other), ensuring these operate properly and trying to prevent unforeseen interruptions. Also in charge of the ongoing improvement of methods and procedures. The maintenance manager reports to the production manager or plant manager.

• Define and organise the maintenance policy in order to improve the preventative model and establish operational maintenace methodologies in a rational manner.
• Ensure that company work equipment and facilities operate properly.
• Organise preventative and predictive maintenance tasks applicable to production lines, ensuring their implementation.
• Draw up preventative and predictive maintenance manuals, ensuring these are kept up to date.
• Allocate maintenance tasks.
• Direct, manage and motivate maintenance teams.
• Coordinate processes with the production manager and other heads of department of the company in order to devise and implement the maintenance process applicable to each department.
• Together with the person in charge of risk prevention in the workplace, coordinate machinery, work equipment and facility maintenance activities to prevent accidents.
  

Regulated training and graduates

• Certificat de Professionalitat de la Família Instal·lació i manteniment: Planificació, gestió i realització del manteniment i supervisió de maquinària, equip industrial i línies automatitzades de producció (Nivell 3)
• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Professional Electricity and Electronics - Advanced Level: Industrial automation and robotics
• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Electricity and Electronics - Advanced Level: Electronic maintenance
• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Electricity and Electronics - Advanced Level: Electrotechnical and Automated Systems
• Grau: Enginyeria mecànica
• Grau: Enginyeria mecatrònica
• Grau: Enginyeria en tecnologies industrials
• Grau: Enginyeria electrònica industrial i automàtica

Complementary training

Other specific skills

Analytical thought: Level 2

Orientation within reach: Level 3

Initiative: Level 3

Communication: Level 3

People management: Level 3

Commitment to the organisation: Level 3

Flexibility and change management: Level 2

Networking: Level 1

Planning and organisation: Level 2

Customer orientation: Level 2

Management

The organisation, administration and control of a company or entity are the main interests of people related to the management field. Activities included in this field of interest vary from effective resource management, feasibility analyses and solving business problems to the development of skills and fostering of motivation in relation to human resources. Knowledge regarding specific techniques of strategic administration and business management are required to carry out these activities.

Mechanical handling

People related to the field of mechanical handling are interested in the assembly, maintenance, repair and use of machines, tools and installations. Some good examples of professional activities in the field of mechanical handling are adjusting and configuring machines, reviewing technical equipment to detect incidents in their operation, handling machinery in production processes and driving specialised vehicles.

Machinery assembler

Process controller

Plant Manager

Railway maintenance engineer

Gas Network Operator

• Work hours

  Full-time

• Salary

  Depending on the size and technical complexity of the equipment used in the company, remuneration can range between 30.648 and 44.336 Euros annual per annum, gross. Median: 36.861 euros annum gross.
  
  Source: Report "Observatory of Jobs and Salaries of the Labour Market. Barcelona Activa", elaborated by ICSA Grupo. April 2015.

• Professional category

  Middle management