Accelerate Maintenance Excellence with Certified Maintenance Planners
Empower your planners. Improve your processes. Transform your maintenance outcomes.
Skilled planners are essential to an effective maintenance organization. Without clear planning processes, teams fall into reactive habits, work gets delayed, and productivity suffers.
Certified Maintenance Planner is our certification for maintenance planners to equip them with the knowledge, competence, and confidence to succeed, in this important role. Our goal is to boost your performance so your team and company can execute well-prepared jobs that deliver uptime and reliability to your company.
Upcoming Waves
Summer/Fall 2025
Start Week: August 11
Completion Week: November 4
Wave Day:Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday
Cost: $6,995
Why planners struggle—and what’s holding your maintenance team back.
Planning is inconsistent or undocumented
Planners are doing other people’s jobs instead of their own
No time or training to build effective job plans
Maintenance planning isn’t seen as a strategic role
Processes rely too heavily on informal knowledge or outdated practices
Let’s put those challenges behind you.
We’ve worked with planners in all types of industries, helping them move from frustration and firefighting to confidence and control. This certification is more than training.
It’s a transformation.
✅ A proven framework for job planning
✅ Guidance from experienced coaches
✅ Increased efficiency during work execution
✅ Respect and recognition for the planning function
✅ A nationally recognized certification
Certification Highlights
Designed by Planners, for Planners.
Boost Planner Knowledge & Skills
Our goal is to improve knowledge, and actual job-focused performance. This certification WILL boost confidence and capability for Maintenance Planners.
OTJ Application
This certification is designed around hands-on, real world application of in-field exercises supported by individual coaching sessions. You will be performing tasks on YOUR equipment that will be reviewed one-on-one with your coach.
Attend Remotely
Planners will experience the certification development pathway remotely in a Wave (a group of 6 students), which will be led by a Marshall Institute coach. The weekly time commitment ranges from 1-12 hours.
Coach-led
Each Wave is supported by a Marshall Institute coach. Their role is to provide guidance, feedback and growth opportunities to each participant during the knowledge modules and application exercises. The coach will lead group and individual coaching sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does certification work?
The certification journey, or pathway as we call it, consists of 3 main components: educational modules, application practice, and examination. To become a MI CMP (Marshall Institute Certified Maintenance Planner) you must successfully complete all of the knowledge modules and associated tests, you must meet all requirements and criteria for the applications exercises, and you must pass the two final exams: one application exam and one knowledge exam.
What is a Wave?
A Wave is group students who will be going through the certification pathway together. Each Wave will be led by a Coach.
How long is the certification pathway?
The certification pathway consists of 12 active weeks. The chronological duration may vary by a few weeks if there are Holidays during the certification pathway.
How many hours per week do I need to commit?
The weekly time commitment ranges from 1-12 hours
- 1 – 2 hours of scheduled meetings
- 1 – 2 hours of self-paced training
- 1 – 7 hours of on the job activities
- 2 –12 hours of exam prep/completion
Note: Many of the activities you performed will be directly tied to your daily work as a maintenance planner. So, some of your certification time will double as work time and contribution.
What if there is a Holiday week during the Wave?
We will typically avoid Holiday weeks and as such we do not require any learning, application exercises, or homework to be done during Holiday weeks. Holiday weeks will be communicated to you by your Coach.
Can I just take the exams?
No. This is no ordinary credential. We don’t just verify your current knowledge. This special certification provides you with a growth pathway to deepen your knowledge and grow your job-focused competency, before we verify you with exams.
What are the certification requirements?
A Marshall Institute’s Certified Maintenance Planner title is something we do not take lightly. For this reason, we do not guarantee that all students will reach this achievement.
All students must meet the following criteria to receive the title of Marshall Institute Certified Maintenance Planner:
- Complete all mandatory learning courses and knowledge checks
- Pass all knowledge tests
- Meet the criteria standards for the application exercises
- Reach out to coach to make up any missed individual coaching sessions
- Not fall more than 3 weeks behind on assignments
- Pass the two certification exams
Just 3 Simple Steps to Certification
Step 1: Choose Your Wave
Select your date and register to secure your place.
Step 2: Learn & Perform
Complete your weekly tasks guided by our experienced coaches.
Step 3: Get Certified
Grow knowledge, develop competency, pass your exams, and fulfill your potential.
Summer/Fall 2025
Start Week: August 11
Completion Week: November 4
Wave Day:Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday
Cost: $6,995