As the concept of a project differs fundamentally from that of daily or routine operations and maintenance, it follows that a number of principles and conceptions of project management must also diverge from those followed in the realm of maintenance management.
In maintenance management, tend generally to focus on maintain the facilities reliability during its lifetime production.
Project management may be defined as the planning, organization, direction, and control of all kinds of resources in a specific time period for achieving a specific objective comprised of various financial and non-financial targets.
This should help clarify the difference in outlook of the project manager and the maintenance manager. The project manager’s goal is to finish the project on time. Then he evaluates where he will relocate after finishing the project. The maintenance manager, on the other hand, never wants daily production to stop, and cannot dream of work stopping as distinct from the project manager’s goal of overall task completion.
The challenge here is in case of major rehabilitation project which is the major maintenance project and it called also “brown field” project. So my question; Are the engineers in engineering or construction phase in brown field project can have the same competency as the new project “green field” project?
Sure No as the attitude is different but it is easy to learn with time. The maintenance engineers usually work in existing facilities so the repair concept in his mind so his plan and vision and attitude is flexible to have a fast action if some thing happened. His experince and vision assist him to predict what is expected to happen rather than the project engineer he is more organize and always thinking about his scope borders and prepare himself to the scope only. Really this difference is not an easy as the project engineer need to think about. On the otherside for the maintenance engineer require to switch to project engineer he should be more organized and restrrict him to the project scope definition and define its border clearly he should tailored himslef about it.
There are big contractor firm in middle east performed a lot of mega projects from long time but fail in implementing maintenance contract due to bad performance and he loose a money until the owner fire him. Can you imagine that as it is not only a person but also the organization if it is capable to switch from green field project to regular maintenance or not. It is not the engineer only we consider about the PSCM system and adminstration system also.
