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Industrial maintenance manager
The maintenance manager decides what the company repairs, what it replaces and what it prevents. They steer a team, a budget, a parts inventory and subcontracts, with one simple objective: equipment availability.
Arbitrating between repair and prevention
The role's central arbitration fits into one question: what share of the budget goes to what is not yet broken. The maintenance manager answers it with data — failure history, downtime cost of each line, equipment criticality. They build a preventive plan, hold it despite emergencies, and negotiate subcontracts on outcome commitments. Critical spares follow the same logic: tying up money to avoid tying up a plant.
- Define a maintenance policy by equipment criticality
- Plan shutdowns and hold the preventive schedule despite emergencies
- Steer a budget, a parts inventory and subcontracts
- Track availability and justify an investment by calculation
The plants to be maintained
- Continuous production plants: cement, food, beverages
- Mining sites and ore processing facilities
- Power generation and distribution, water networks
- Fleets of plant, heavy vehicles and construction equipment
- Maintenance providers operating across several industrial clients
Duration, credits, hours: the facts
The hours shown are taught hours, led by an instructor and set in the timetable. Personal study comes on top of them under the catalogue rule: twenty-five hours of total work per credit. Both figures are given together so that the real workload reads clearly on a first visit.
- qualification level
- 6
- months of programme
- 12
- taught hours
- 800 h
- credits
- 80
- competency blocks
- 5
Manager and professional
Led by an instructor.
1 credit = 25 h of work, 10 of them taught.
Framework of the « Industrial Maintenance Manager » qualification, code TP20.
What the qualification actually contains
Here is the framework exactly as filed, with the taught hours of each block. A candidate sees what they will learn; an employer sees what the holder can do on arrival. One document serves both readings, which closes the usual gap between a brochure and a job description.
- 01
Maintenance strategy and policy
Equipment criticality, preventive, corrective and condition-based work, multi-year plans — 200 taught hours.
- 02
Steering the activity
CMMS, scheduling, planned shutdowns, subcontracting, spare parts — 210 taught hours.
- 03
Performance and budget
Availability, maintenance cost, investment, repair-or-replace trade-offs — 190 taught hours.
- 04
Leading a technical team
Organisation, skills, on-call duty, safe interventions — 150 taught hours.
- 05
Managerial conduct
Working with production, crisis management, reporting to leadership — 50 taught hours.
From hands-on work to maintenance steering
Entry into this occupation runs through one or more of these programmes. They combine: a short certificate opens the door, a longer programme consolidates the position a few years later. The fees shown match the real billing unit — per year for a long programme, one-off for a short format.
| Programme | Duration | Credits | Taught hours | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Maintenance and Energy · Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 120 | 1200 h | 5 400 000 GNF per year |
| Management and Project Management programme — Bac+5 level · Master's degree | 2 years | 120 | 1200 h | 6 500 000 GNF per year |
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