Why Choose this Training Course?
Facilities such as buildings, utility plants, power and water distribution networks, production plants, parking lots, and landscaping are becoming increasingly complex and costly. As one of the largest budget items for organizations, Facilities Management presents significant opportunities for cost savings, while also managing valuable assets.
This COPEX training course applies Best Practices to help you organize and manage a facilities department effectively, treating it as a successful "business within a business." The course focuses on balancing asset performance with cost-efficiency, ensuring that facilities are operated and maintained in a way that integrates function, people, and place. You will learn strategies to optimize facilities management, improving both performance and cost outcomes.
What are the Goals?
By attending this COPEX training course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the Basics of Facilities Management
- Understand How to Draw Up a Preventive Maintenance Concept, Based on Risk
- Develop Strategies to Decide When and What to Outsource
- Understand the Different (Maintenance) Contract Types
- Identify and Monitor the Performance of the Facilities Management Processes
Who is this Training Course for?
This COPEX training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals who are involved in any aspect of Facilities Management, but will greatly benefit:
- Facility Managers, Asset & Maintenance Managers
- Manager Utilities
- Operational Managers
- Maintenance & Reliability Engineers
- Technical Managers & Supervisors
- Consultants in Facilities Management
Course Outline
Day One: An Overview of Facilities Management
- The Facilities Management process in general
- Facilities Management as a business within a business
- Facilities phases, planning and realization
- Relationship between Facilities Management and Asset Management
Day Two: The Basic Elements of Facilities Management
- Facilities Roles, the current state of your Facilities Management processes
- Types of planning
- Strategic and annual planning, Life Cycle Cost principles
- Budgeting principles
- Work planning and control, performance management regarding the workflow
Day Three: Preventive Maintenance and Maintenance Strategy
- Disaster recovery plans
- Maintenance concepts
- Understanding RISK
- Risk Based Maintenance, the methodology
- Steps in developing an effective & risk-based maintenance strategy
- Typical inspection and maintenance tasks for utilities
Day Four: Outsourcing and Contracting
- What to outsource and what not
- Choosing the right contractor
- How to manage this
- Contract types
- The contracting cycle
- Service Level Agreements
Day Five: Performance Monitoring and Benchmarking
- Continuous improvement
- Target setting as a starting point
- Monitoring performance: development and use of Key Performance Indicators
- The Facilities Management Balanced Scorecard (FMBSC)
- Assessments, audits and benchmarking; practical exercise in auditing
- Course review/Wrap up
The Certificate
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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