2023 Maintenance Team of the Year (Large Organization)

This year's recipient of Maintenance Team of the Year for a large organization is the maintenance department of Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board. To deliver safe environments for teaching and learning, this team maintains assets which cover a large geographical footprint across 29 municipalities within the districts of Simcoe County, Muskoka, and Parry Sound. Over the last four years - which included the very challenging years of the global pandemic - this team has worked together to develop a maintenance strategy and program which has taken them from reactive to proactive. With a vision for going even further, they have currently achieved 87% schedule compliance with 65% planned work - metrics that have steadily progressed as their program has been developing. The tools that they have employed to transform they way they work have included: work order standardization, PM reviews, improved planning and scheduling, RCM analysis (carried out in-house), documentation of business processes, development of a 'talent roadmap', and a culture of continuous improvement.