--- title: The Maintenance Job Plan Outline description: Since the idea of continuous improvement has long been pushed for managers and others as buzz words, they are quick to provide the answer they think I want to hear. image: https://blog.peopleandprocesses.com/hubfs/shutterstock_1064526140%20(1).jpg --- [![provide interfaces to top corporate and site management](https://blog.peopleandprocesses.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-peopleandprocesses.png?width=276&height=147&name=logo-peopleandprocesses.png "provide interfaces to top corporate and site management")](https://www.peopleandprocesses.com) - [About Us](https://www.peopleandprocesses.com/about-us) - Solutions - [Assessment](https://www.peopleandprocesses.com/maintenance-reliability-assessment-benchmarking-implementation) - [CBM, PM and PdM](https://www.peopleandprocesses.com/preventive-pm-predictive-pdm-condition-based-maintenance-cbm-for-reliability) - [CMMS/EAM](https://www.peopleandprocesses.com/maintenance-management-systems-cmms-enterprise-asset-eam) - 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The intent of the job plan is to better enable the craftspeople to execute their job with the materials, tools, and information in hand. Ideally, you really want a template to facilitate the development of these job plans. What should some of the headers be for a job plan template? Here’s an outline that you may want to start with. - Asset number - Asset name - Crafts required - Estimated hours per craft - Total job duration (to be able to tell our Operations partners how long we need the equipment) - Safety considerations - Tasks and sequence - Materials and Parts (Stock or purchased) - Consumables (i.e. shop towels, penetrating lubricant spray) - Tools and equipment (i.e. 2” impact socket, grease gun, 40’ man-lift) - Housekeeping and/ or disposal - Revision history Most of these outline items can be used regardless of whether it’s a PM or Corrective Action job plan. 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