Lead the shift from reactive to proactive maintenance: build a reliability culture, use reliability KPIs, drive root cause analysis and align operations and maintenance around asset performance.
Reliability Leadership is designed for leaders in asset-intensive industries who want to improve equipment reliability and operational performance by changing how people work, not only which tools they use. The course covers the principles of asset reliability and maintenance strategy, including the move from reactive to planned and condition-based maintenance, the P-F curve, reliability-centred maintenance concepts and the asset management principles set out in ISO 55000. Above all, it addresses the leadership behaviors that build a lasting reliability culture.
Participants assess the reliability maturity of their own sites, interpret key indicators such as MTBF, MTTR, planned maintenance percentage and OEE, and practice leading structured root cause analysis. Case studies show how operations, maintenance and engineering teams can share ownership of asset performance. The course can be delivered as an in-house program for a plant, facility or maintenance organization working on its reliability improvement journey.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Explain the business impact of asset reliability on safety, production and cost
Compare reactive, preventive, predictive and reliability-centred maintenance strategies
Use reliability KPIs such as MTBF, MTTR, OEE and schedule compliance
Lead structured root cause analysis and defect elimination activities
Align operations, maintenance and engineering around shared reliability goals
Build a proactive reliability culture through leadership behaviors and routines
This course is for leaders and engineers responsible for the reliability, maintenance and operational performance of physical assets.
Maintenance and reliability managers and superintendents
Operations and production managers in industrial facilities
Reliability, maintenance and asset integrity engineers
Maintenance planners and supervisors
Facility and asset managers
How reliability affects safety, production, cost and environment
Reactive versus proactive organizations
Asset management principles and the ISO 55000 series
Assessing site reliability maturity
Preventive, predictive and condition-based maintenance
The P-F curve and failure patterns
Reliability-centred maintenance and criticality analysis
Planning and scheduling as reliability enablers
MTBF, MTTR and availability
Overall equipment effectiveness and its losses
Planned maintenance percentage and schedule compliance
Leading versus lagging reliability indicators
Leading effective root cause analysis sessions
Five whys, fishbone and fault tree techniques
Bad actor analysis and prioritizing chronic failures
Tracking corrective actions to closure
Leadership behaviors that sustain reliability
Shared ownership between operations and maintenance
Operator care and frontline engagement
Building a reliability improvement roadmap
Qatar's economy relies heavily on complex physical assets, including oil and gas production and processing facilities, petrochemical plants, power and water utilities, transport infrastructure and large commercial buildings. Unplanned failures in these assets can affect safety, production and service delivery. Leaders who can build proactive reliability cultures and align operations and maintenance help protect these critical assets, support efficient operations and contribute to the sustainable economic development described in Qatar National Vision 2030.
Join a scheduled class at our training center in Doha or attend live online. For organizations, the course can run as an in-house program at your premises or online, tailored to your sector, case studies and timetable.
It is a course for leaders in asset-intensive industries that combines reliability and maintenance principles with leadership practice. It covers maintenance strategies, reliability KPIs, root cause analysis and how to build a proactive reliability culture across operations and maintenance.
It suits maintenance and reliability managers, operations and production managers, reliability and asset integrity engineers, maintenance planners and supervisors, and facility or asset managers responsible for equipment performance.
An engineering or technical background is helpful but not essential. The course explains reliability concepts and indicators in practical terms, and focuses strongly on leadership and culture, so operations and facility managers without an engineering degree can also benefit.
Yes. It can be delivered at your premises or online and tailored to your sector, asset types, maintenance systems, site examples and shift schedules. Contact Leaders Training Center to plan an in-house program for your teams.
Tell us a little about yourself and an advisor will contact you about batch timings, fees and eligibility. No obligation.
Sat–Thu: 09:00–22:00Fri: 08:00–22:00
Apply practical management mechanisms that save time and improve results: lean process thinking, clear decision rights, data dashboards, effective meetings and smart use of digital tools.
Prepare to lead when things go wrong: plan for crises, make decisions under pressure, communicate clearly with staff and stakeholders, and manage difficult situations and recovery.
Build the core skills to plan and organize work, delegate well, motivate a team and lead people through day-to-day challenges, balancing the roles of leader and manager.
Refine advanced management practice: design performance systems, allocate resources, make sound decisions with data and manage other managers across functions and departments.
