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Define the Lanes

When everyone owns everything, nobody owns anything. Define the five maintenance roles and let people run.

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Most maintenance departments don't have a people problem — they have a lane problem. When the manager, planner, scheduler, supervisor, and reliability engineer all blur into the same firefighting role, accountability disappears and the best people burn out. This infographic maps the five lanes — who owns direction, who builds job packages, who protects the schedule, who executes the plan, and who finds patterns — so you can stop overlapping and start running.

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