About this Training Course

The industry is surrounded with examples of poor Turnarounds, which have injured people and damaged businesses. If Turnarounds are not properly planned, managed and controlled, companies run the risks of serious safety and budget penalties, costly schedule delays and negative impacts on customers. As a consequence, operators are starting to explore Turnaround best practices and establish a more robust methodology.

Turnarounds are the highest risk activity that we routinely perform in the industry, but they are also an area of massive variability in approach and outcome. Central to the variability is a lack of written methodologies and training – there are around 1,000 times as many books on maintenance as there are on turnaround management. All too often companies see Turnarounds as something to be survived and therefore it is no surprise that most Turnarounds fail.

This 4 full-day course is based upon the Carcharodon “Best of the Best” model of excellence for shutdown management with inputs from people who have done it from the trenches along with some of the world’s most experienced shutdown specialists. All this experience has been condensed into a core methodology – our blueprint for success. It converts Turnarounds from a high-risk nuisance to a business opportunity. It has been used on multiple sites around the world, has been the basis of two books and is also supplemented by a roadmap for building and controlling a successful Turnaround.

This is a certificate course where participants will have the option to participate for a short exam on the final day of the course to gain a Certificate in Advanced Turnaround, Shutdown & Outage Management from EnergyEdge and the Academy of Turnarounds Operations and Maintenance (ATOM).

The purpose of this course is to equip the participants on the use of the Model of Excellence for Turnarounds and the principles of Challenge Planning to equip attendees with an advanced approach to Turnaround Management. The course is backed by real situations, high levels of interaction, group exercises and multiple case studies. It will explore the underlying mechanisms and levers that shape a Turnaround to demonstrate why we sometimes succeed or fail and introduce new conceptual approaches that can increase our chances of succeeding.

The Academy for Turnarounds, Operations & Maintenance (ATOM)

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TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

Position Turnarounds as part of an overall strategy of improving business performance.
Build the best Turnaround team possible from available resources.
Help senior management build effective steering teams.
Reduce the downtime associated with turnarounds while simultaneously improving safety performance.
Use the Model of Excellence to analyse their own performance, explain key principles to others and build a detailed methodology of their own.
Maximise the benefits of planning and preparation through a proactive challenge planning process where the participants will build a Turnaround from the ground up from concept to execution and review.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course has been researched and developed for Experienced Managers, Superintendents, Supervisors, Engineers, Planners, Team Leaders and Coordinators of:

Shutdowns/Turnarounds
Maintenance
Engineering
Reliability
Plant
Outage
Asset Management
Operations/Audit
Safety

COURSE LEVEL

Advanced

TRAINING METHODS

Course methodology of this training course: Other than world-class visuals and slides, this course will include a high level of interaction between the facilitator and participants and group discussion among the participants themselves. There will be a number of case studies to demonstrate key points and also a minimum of one workshop exercise each day to give participants the chance to apply learning and appreciate key aspects of best practice. Participants will also have the chance to share examples from their own experience, discuss real problems they are facing and develop actions for improvement when they return to work. Examples of the exercises that are used in this course are as follows:

Exercise: Understanding the challenges and seeing the opportunities
Exercise: Developing a strategy
Group Exercise: Selecting maintenance plans
Group exercise: Case study failure
Group exercise: Planning work

The Key Attributes of The Academy for Turnarounds, Operations & Maintenance (ATOM), include the following:

– ATOM course content is independently reviewed by industry experts to ensure it is up-to-date with the latest industry-leading techniques and fully covers the syllabus.

– ATOM certified courses contain class-leading content independently verified by industry experts; the learning they will receive will keep
them ahead of their peers

– ATOM courses all have exams verified by industry experts. Delegates must pass the exam to receive the ATOM certification. Top scores will be awarded distinction

– ATOM certified courses all issue digital accreditation. You can share your success on social media and will have a permanent electronic record for current and future employers

TRAINER

Your First Expert Course Instructor is a highly experienced facilitator in maintenance, change management, continuous improvement and capability development. He has a strong focus on developing people and the practicalities of improving maintenance performance rather than just the theory. He has worked internationally across Europe, America, the Middle East and Africa with extensive experience in Oil and Gas, Chemicals sector as well as working with clients in Steel and Power Generation. As a result, he can bring best practice from a wide variety of sources.

He spent the first fifteen years of his career as a specialist trainer working for companies such as Lloyds British Training Services and Rolls Royce. He then went on to work as a Principal consultant for ABB consulting for 15 years. During this time, he refined some of the established improvement tools including how and when to apply them for maximum impact whilst still continuing to develop and deliver training in support of this. Recent work has included improvements to the Work Order to Work Execution processes of Engineering departments and focused on Reliability, Planning and Scheduling. This ongoing field experience has helped him test and refine specialist training in a number of areas.

He has been able to use his own experience to contribute with other maintenance specialists to the Carcharodon models of excellence. Its methodologies are recognised as “Best of the Best” standards, providing the inspiration for two books, projects that have won awards such as the prodigious UK Chemical Industries annual Excellence in Engineering award and form the basis of this training. He was recently awarded a national award as coach of the year. He uses the same skills to ensure that he does not just preach maintenance best practice, he discusses it, explains it and ensures that participants have a much more personal and flexible experience.

Your Second Expert Course Instructor has over 18 years of experience in the oil refining and petrochemicals industry. As a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, He brings deep expertise in maintenance, reliability, and turnarounds to his consulting work. His career journey includes leadership and engineering roles at prominent organizations such as Shell, BP, and INEOS Petrochemicals. He is known for leading and delivering global projects in Maintenance, Reliability, Turnarounds, and Asset Management, implementing transformation programmes, and driving continuous improvement initiatives across various stages of operations. He is a proficient Continuous Improvement and LEAN practitioner, skilled at leading workshops, coaching teams, and influencing personnel at all organizational levels. He holds a First Class Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Leeds and is a Chartered member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL)

To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.
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