Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Certification (PSC)
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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Certification (PSC) – Drive Proactive Maintenance Excellence
Earn your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Certification (PSC) from one of the nation’s top engineering schools and strengthen your ability to lead maintenance operations. This certification program equips you with practical tools to move your organization from reactive maintenance to a proactive, disciplined, and efficient environment. You’ll gain proven strategies to optimize planning, improve scheduling, and increase the value of your maintenance program—all while demonstrating your commitment to operational excellence.
Program Details
To earn the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Certification (PSC), candidates must complete four required courses and successfully pass the PSC exam within three years. Participants will earn 8.4 CEUs across the program.
You will learn how to:
- Build and sustain a planning and scheduling program
- Transition from reactive to proactive maintenance practices
- Apply work planning best practices and performance metrics
- Develop standard job plans and CMMS data procedures
- Manage planned shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages effectively
- Establish auditing and continuous improvement strategies
Who Should Attend:
The PSC is designed for planners, schedulers, maintenance managers, production supervisors, and professionals responsible for building and sustaining a world-class maintenance planning and scheduling program.
Required Courses:
When: Aug. 25-27, 2026 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CST
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Cost: $1,995
Description:
Maintenance planning and scheduling is one of the fastest and most effective investments an organization can make to improve productivity and availability. The processes in this course pave the way for planning and control of maintenance resources. Equipment reliability is increased. Waiting times, unnecessary parts, and inaccurate information are eliminated. Budgeting is easier and more accurate. Maintenance tasks are as much as 50% more efficient in terms of costs and time.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling examines topics including a proactive work management process, job estimation and prioritization, backlog management, job plan development, work scheduling and coordination, tracking progress, and supporting reliability engineers with valuable equipment history and root cause analysis input.
Also part of the Maintenance Management Certification Program.
When: June 2-4, 2026 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CST
Where: University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Rd., Overland Park, KS 66213)
Cost: $1,995
Description:
In Managing Planning and Scheduling, participants build a work management program based on Reliability Excellence best practices. The course is designed for a Lead Planner or Department Manager to establish a proactive work management program or to transform an existing program into an effective, results-producing department that positively impacts maintenance costs, plant reliability measures and employee morale.
Managing Planning and Scheduling examines topics like designing a work management program strategy, developing standard processes and work, establishing program measures, managing staff development, and planning program improvement. Learners will walk away with a solid foundation for an effective maintenance work management program.
When: Mar. 3-5, 2026 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Cost: $1,995
Description:
After attending this 3-day course, you will save time and money on your next shutdown. Our promise for this program is that you will have a new and deeper understanding of how to effectively manage large maintenance jobs such as power plant outages and refinery refits. This course is 85% concerned with the time before the shutdown begins. The remaining 15% is the execution tactics to keep the project on course.
This course includes specific checklists, procedures, strategies, and important outside resources that will improve your current shutdown planning and execution. The course also includes examples to demonstrate the major points.
When: Nov. 18-20, 2025 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Cost: $1,995
When: May 12-14, 2026 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
Where: Online
Cost: $1,995
Description:
Managing a storeroom is a balancing act. Storeroom managers must have the materials available to keep production flowing while minimizing inventory investment.
In this three-day class, you will learn how to ensure the right parts are in the right place at the right time. When you apply the knowledge and skills learned in this class, quality will increase and costs will decrease. You will be able to manage your storeroom in a way that successfully balances the needs of operations and maintenance while optimizing your inventory and carrying costs.
Also part of the Maintenance Management Certification Program.
PSC Exam
Cost: $195.00 – $495.00
The PSC exam is a 100-question exam based on the courses you completed as part of the Planning and Scheduling certification track. When you register for the exam, you will receive access to a comprehensive study guide set, with 4 online guides and 200 practice exam questions. The study guides will be available in your LCEMarketPlace dashboard.
Take the exam on your schedule! Once your registration fee is paid, select a time and date that works for you and take the PSC Exam from your home or office through our partner, ProctorU.
Learn more about how ProctorU works.
You will receive an email with your exam results. After successfully passing the exam, you will receive a university certificate and have the privilege of using the PSC letters beside your name.
“The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling class was a great experience…it was extremely informative and the instructor was outstanding and very knowledgeable of the planning function based on real world experiences! It was definitely worthy of my time and effort.”