Designing a Maintenance Model that Aligns with your Company Strategy

Managing an $11 billion asset portfolio with Seqwater's uniquely diverse and geographically dispersed infrastructure presents exceptional challenges. This presentation explores how we developed a maintenance delivery model that satisfies multiple stakeholders while advancing our strategic objectives as a statutory authority.

We’ll share our journey in creating a maintenance framework specifically aligned with corporate strategy, designed to deliver measurable improvements in both maintenance and asset management maturity. You'll discover practical approaches for selecting between insourced and outsourced models, developing meaningful KPIs, and preparing your organisation for significant operational change.

  • Evaluating insourcing versus outsourcing options through a strategic lens
  • Measuring and benchmarking maintenance and asset management maturity
  • Navigating stakeholder complexities and potential implementation pitfalls
  • Structuring contract KPIs that drive maturity improvements
  • Building organisational readiness for transformational change
  • Securing executive buy-in for your maintenance strategy

Critical Takeaways:

  • Proven strategies to gain executive leadership support for maintenance transformation
  • Essential guidelines for designing effective maintenance delivery contracts
  • Methods to establish meaningful performance measurement and benchmarking systems
Topics:

Alignment Between Asset Strategy and Enterprise Objectives

Speakers

Michael Mitchell
Michael Mitchell

General Manager Asset Management

Seqwater

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