Leadership Skills for Maintenance Supervisors and Managers

About Joel D. Levitt

Joel D Levitt CRL CPMM Certified Prosci Change Management practitioner since 1980. Mr. Levitt has been the President of Springfield Resources maintenance consultants and trainers in a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals oil airports hospitals high tech manufacturing school systems government etc. He is a leading maintenance trainer throughout the US Canada Australia Europe and Asia. He has trained over 17000 maintenance professionals from 39 countries in more than 600 classes and workshops. Surveys of his students show that 98% rated the training very good or excellent. Mr. Levitt was the director of International Projects at Life Cycle Engineering and director of Reliability Projects at Reliabilityweb and a trainer of the CRL. He was a senior consultant at Computer Cost Control Corp. There he designed computerized maintenance management systems for organizations including FedEx United Airlines JFK Airport BFI etc. He designed installed and serviced a complete automation system with rack controls accounting and inventory controls for BP North Americas 30000-barrel/day-oil terminal. Mr. Levitt has written 12 books on maintenance management and contributed chapters to two other books. He has written over 200 articles for trade publications on maintenance topics. His teaching style is humorous and understandable straight talking. Students should expect to be introduced to a great deal of material real-life examples successful practices from around the world and have a good time as well. Typical clients: GM BHP Volvo USX Mercedes Benz Valero Oil (planning) ARAMCO Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Esso Canada Chevron-Saudi Arabia Arawak Cement-Barbados BP (Port Newark-Automation) Atlantic LNG (Planning) Iron Ore of Canada (planning) LA Water Wyeth Saint Martin International Airport Dubai Water US Army Corps of Engineers (Dams on the Columbia Red River) Portland International Airport CUF (Ammonia Plant-Shutdown) Syncrude Algoma (planning shutdowns) GE Plastics (management) Abbotts Labs Merck Prince George Pulp and paper City College of NY Univ. of Alabama Ft Meade (US Army) SAP Jefferson University Hospital US Defense Logistics Philip Morris Sony CSX Railroad Harley Davidson Motorcycle US Navy 3000 more.