Planning for Forepersons & Crew Supervisors

Strengthen your skill (and value to your company) by gaining a strong foundation in practical task planning. Working with hands-on, practical exercises, you will practice working through the various elements needed to put together a complete activity plan for your crew.

Course topics include calculating manpower needs, determining material and equipment needs, building quality and safety into your plan and much more!

What will you learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Identify the benefits of planning and why we do it

• Understand what planning is, who should do it, what we should plan, and when

• Follow the Planning Cycle of Plan, Do, Check, Act

• Know where to gather the information needed to put together a solid plan

• Plan crew task activities including:

• Safety considerations

• Quality controls

• Manpower needs

• Material needs

• Equipment needs

• Working with other trades

• Build a 2 week lookahead schedule

• Create daily crew work plans

• Monitor and correct/ update the plan if it goes off track

• Communicate the plan to others

• Using templates provided, develop their own task plans, 2-week lookaheads and daily crew plans

• Gather useful historical information to improve their future planning