IMC-2018 Learning Session 30:32

by Paul Crocker

My journey to leadership in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management in Drinking Water Treatment. I started my journey by maintaining and managing assets which I still do to this day. It started when my manager gave me the opportunity to learn about Asset Management in a program through Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) called, "AM Kan Work!" which was for teaching asset management for small size utilities in Kansas. I'll talk about that and how I saw tremendous value in it. I learned that there was opportunity to make a difference, which lead to learning about reliability and even more about asset management. I'll talk about how that work started for me and how I've turned it into an opportunity for growth for myself and betterment for my organization. The goal of this is to show that anyone can be a leader for reliability and for asset management and it doesn't have to be 100% dictated from the top. It can be a ground up effort and it is a marathon that's never quite finished.