Transit Maintenance and Asset Management

Intended Audience

This learning event is intended for:

• Incumbent managers, supervisors, and coordinators from the following areas: Maintenance, Fleet, Facilities, Operations, Planning, Finance
• Transit General Managers and Directors
• Employees in a maintenance and asset management succession stream
• Employees interested in developing a greater understanding of how transit works

Target Competencies

At the end of this learning event, learners will be able to:

• Explain the fundamentals of asset management, apply its principles to facility and fleet maintenance planning
• Apply life cycle planning and costing for all transit assets
• Develop and implement a predictive maintenance program for facilities and fleets
• Estimate and schedule facility and fleet maintenance programs
• Prepare a transit asset management plan and annual work plans
• Develop and justify budgets and staffing plans
• Measure and evaluate existing maintenance and asset management programs
• Integrate human capital fundamentals in asset management planning
• Manage human resource issues in maintenance

Learners will cover the following topics:

• Asset management principles: managing and maintaining fleet, buildings, systems, and people assets
• Facility assets: design and maintenance
• Lifecycle planning and costing
• Financial concepts and controls
• Maintaining assets: maintenance planning and preventive maintenance programs
• Scheduling maintenance of assets
• Parts planning and inventory controls
• Key performance indicators
• Human capital
• Developing an asset management program