Boost Team Performance with Certified Maintenance Supervisors
Empower your supervisors. Strengthen your teams. Elevate your maintenance performance.
Skilled supervisors are the lynchpin of effective maintenance organizations. When leadership lacks clarity, work execution stalls, teams lack direction, and reliability suffers.
Our Certified Maintenance Supervisor certification equips your supervisors with the knowledge, competence, and confidence to excel. This certification is more than training — it is a transformation designed to help your team conduct better-prepared work that delivers uptime, safety, and operational confidence.
Why supervisors struggle — and what’s holding your maintenance teams back
Supervisors aren’t operating from a documented, repeatable supervisory process
They’re pulled into administrative or planning tasks instead of leading teams
There’s little structured coaching or leadership training available
Maintenance supervision is not recognized as a strategic leadership role
Informal knowledge and outdated practices drive decisions
Supervisors aren’t operating from a documented, repeatable supervisory process
They’re pulled into administrative or planning tasks instead of leading teams
There’s little structured coaching or leadership training available
Maintenance supervision is not recognized as a strategic leadership role
Informal knowledge and outdated practices drive decisions
Let’s put those challenges behind you.
We have helped maintenance supervisors across industries move from firefighting confusion to strategic confidence.
It’s a transformation.
✅ An opportunity to assess and improve your execution of core supervisory tasks
✅ Guidance from experienced coaches with deep industry experience
✅ Better coordination and efficiency in work execution
✅ Recognition and respect for the supervisory role
✅ A nationally recognized certification for career advancement
Certification Highlights
Designed by Supervisors, for Supervisors.
Boost Supervisor Knowledge & Skills
Our goal is to improve knowledge, and actual job-focused performance. This certification WILL boost confidence and capability for Maintenance Supervisors.
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 related to YOUR team that will be reviewed one-on-one with your coach.
Attend Remotely
Supervisors 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 CMS (Marshall Institute Certified Maintenance Supervisor) 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 a group of students who will be going through the certification pathway together. Each Wave will be led by a Coach and usually consist of around 6 students.
How long is the certification pathway?
The certification pathway consists of 14 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 – 3 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 supervisor. 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 Supervisor 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 Supervisor:
- 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.
Have questions?
Winter/Spring 2026
Start Week: January 12
Completion Week: April 19
Register:
Select the preffered wave day:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Cost: $6,995