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Maintenance RACI Matrix

Clear lanes reduce handoff chaos, meeting friction, and ownership drift. Click any cell to explore what each role owns at every step.

RResponsible
AAccountable
A/RAccountable & Responsible
CConsulted
IInformed

Tap a role to see their full profile

Watch For These

Who owns the handoff when the work stalls?

1

If Planner owns everything, planning is already broken

The planner should own the plan — not the identification, not the execution, not the review. When one role carries too many A's, they become the bottleneck and nothing moves without them.

2

If Supervisor owns execution without support, the schedule will collapse

The supervisor needs a planned schedule, kitted parts, and available labor. Without upstream support, they're not supervising — they're firefighting.

3

If Manager gets dragged into every handoff, the system does not trust itself

When the manager is in every meeting, approving every work order, and making every priority call, the system has no operating rhythm. The manager's job is to build the system and step back.

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The matrix shows the lanes.
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Fix the System, Not the People covers the full work management process — from work identification to schedule adherence — with playbooks, case studies, and the leadership behaviors that make RACI stick.

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