Operations Maintenance Coordinator Role (OMC)

Operations Maintenance Coordinator Role (OMC)

Terry Taylor, IDCON INC

OMC (Operations Maintenance Coordinator)…now this is a person that really reports up through the operations group…the production group. But they’re that liaison, they work hand in hand with the maintenance folks and they’re the representative for the production side to come in and see… What do we have coming up in maintenance? How do we coordinate that with our operating plan? I’ve seen this where somebody really didn’t have this title of operations maintenance coordinator but they did that work but some places have a person that their title, that’s their job, that’s what their going to do.

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