CMMS, EAM & Spare Parts Management worked example

Maintenance Labor Load at 25% job planning, coordination, breaks, emergency work, and parts delays allowance: a worked example

What does the result look like when job planning, coordination, breaks, emergency work, and parts delays allowance reaches 25%? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. a maintenance or asset-management team needs to balance technician staffing, overtime, contractor support, and schedule commitments for a maintenance labor schedule

The inputs for this scenario

  • Maintenance jobs in the weekly schedule: 310 jobs (unchanged)
  • Jobs completed per technician hour: 2.1 jobs / hr (unchanged)
  • Job planning, coordination, breaks, emergency work, and parts delays allowance: 25 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 22)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Base maintenance labor load time = maintenance jobs in the weekly schedule รท jobs completed per technician hour) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 185 hr for required maintenance labor load time, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 148 hr for base maintenance labor load time.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 25 % for job planning, coordination, breaks, emergency work, and parts delays allowance applied.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 2.1 pieces / min for jobs completed per technician hour.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where job planning, coordination, breaks, emergency work, and parts delays allowance sits at 22% and the headline result is 180 hr, this scenario comes in 2.46% above the baseline at 185 hr.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when job planning, coordination, breaks, emergency work, and parts delays allowance is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It assumes an average completion rate across all jobs; a week heavy with complex or first-time jobs will run slower than the blended rate suggests.

Results at a glance

  • Required maintenance labor load time: 185 hr (headline result)
  • Base maintenance labor load time: 148 hr
  • job planning, coordination, breaks, emergency work, and parts delays allowance applied: 25 %
  • jobs completed per technician hour: 2.1 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Maintenance Labor Load calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.