Tips to Maintenance Engineers to become successful in Career

I am sure the 7 points habits of Maintenance Engineers shall be the key for their success in their career.


1. Know the Standard Maintenance Procedures of each maintenance activities.

2. Focus Only on the Most Important Things

3. Document the Baselines (example: Existing MTBF/MTTR/MTBM, past failure history etc)

4. Use Tools to be More Effective (Use Check lists as a tool)

5. Discuss and Communicate Results ( post maintenance equipment performance) to all concerned
   preferably in business terms (e.g Improved MTBF, Decreased MTTR, Increased Up-Time ,% age 
   increase in reliability/availability)

6. Keep Learning (Never Stop learning).

7. Share Your Knowledge with others (Sharing your knowledge with others can help to make you and them more effective.For your own success, if people understand what you do, they will have a better
appreciation of the value you bring to the company. It’s hard to downsize someone that
brings a lot of value..