Jobs & Training

Maintenance sector

Discover maintenance professions, types of maintenance, and training opportunities available in New Caledonia.

What is the maintenance sector?

Anticipate, troubleshoot, optimize

Maintenance is first and foremost about knowing how to anticipate, troubleshoot, and optimize. In keeping with this principle, the motto of maintenance professionals could also be “prevention is better than cure”. Preventive and improvement-based maintenance therefore takes on its full importance compared with corrective maintenance, which is often costly and synonymous with loss of productivity.

Maintenance, whose purpose is to ensure the proper operation of production equipment, is therefore a strategic function within companies. Constantly evolving, especially today with the rapid growth of digital technology, it is linked to technological development, the emergence of new management methods, and the need to reduce production costs.

Its objective is no longer simply to repair, but to anticipate and prevent malfunctions in order to improve productivity and competitiveness. As a result, its role is evolving to combine technological, organizational, and interpersonal skills, while never overlooking the essential aspect of safety.

Maintenance is the ability to optimize the balance between:

Reliability

Ability of a device to perform a required function under given operating conditions at a specific point in time.

Availability

Ability of a device to perform a required function under given operating conditions for a given period of time.

Maintainability

Ability of a device to be maintained or restored to a state in which it can perform a required function.

Safety

Ability of a device to prevent critical or catastrophic events from occurring.

The different types of maintenance

Discover the 4 approaches to maintaining your equipment.

This is maintenance carried out after a failure has been detected, with the aim of restoring an item to a condition in which it can perform a required function. It may also be referred to as repair.

It can be used:

on its own as a method when equipment downtime has no major impact on the production process, or when safety constraints are low;

as a complement to preventive maintenance, to address residual failures.

Maintenance carried out with the aim of reducing the probability of failure of an asset or the degradation of a service provided.

It involves working on equipment before it fails, in order to try to prevent breakdowns. This includes inspections, checks, and routine visits.

The benefits of this type of maintenance include:

Reducing urgent work
Facilitating maintenance management
Supporting work planning
Making it possible to prepare, schedule, and manage spare parts inventory
Avoiding periods of malfunction before failure, as well as any damage caused by unexpected breakdowns
Improving safety
Increasing production

Systematic preventive maintenance carried out according to an established schedule, based on time or the number of units of use. This maintenance includes periodic inspections and planned interventions. This type of maintenance is mainly intended for:

Equipment whose failure may compromise the safety of property and people
Equipment with high failure costs
Equipment with long shutdown or start-up times
Equipment subject to regulatory requirements
This type of maintenance helps prevent major deterioration and reduce the risk of unexpected failures.

Preventive maintenance based on a predetermined type of event that indicates the condition of the asset. Its objectives:

To avoid unnecessary dismantling associated with systematic maintenance, which can itself lead to failures
To increase the safety of property and people
To avoid emergency interventions by monitoring the development of early anomalies over time, in order to intervene under the best possible conditions.

Some job titles

AFIM, of which AMD is the regional delegation in the Pacific, offers 18 detailed job profile sheets.

AFIM, the French Association of Maintenance Engineers, of which AMD is the regional delegation in the Pacific, has published 18 job profile sheets covering the main maintenance activities.

Ensuring the proper operation of building equipment, machinery, vehicles, and more — the missions of maintenance professionals are broad and often multidisciplinary. They also vary depending on the size of the company.

Download the job profile sheets below in PDF:

Where can you train in New Caledonia?

Training organizations

APAVE NC
Formation à la sécurité tous secteurs d’activité, formation métiers

Bureau Veritas
Domaines de la qualité, santé, sécurité, environnement et responsabilité sociale

CAPSE NC
Formation risque incendie, risque industriel, santé sécurité au travail, environnement et développement durable

CIPAC
Formation professionnelle engins, maintenance, électricité, télécoms …

COMEP
Formation qualifiante en échafaudage/travaux en hauteur et peintures industrielles

FORMATION PRO NC
Formation et test CACES®, formation habilitation électrique, travail en hauteur, élagage, arrimage, transport de marchandises dangereuses routier, maritime et aérien

Is Industrie NC
Coordinateur en soudage, contrôle non destructif, radioprotection, sources radioactives, soudage

NEODYME Nouvelle Calédonie
Formations en sécurité et environnement

Pacific WELDING
Formation de soudure tout type d’acier et divers procédés

Sauvegarde Formations
SST, Incendie, Gestes et postures, Espace confiné, port de l’ARI, formation ATEX 3.0, arbres des causes, amiante, EvRP

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Formations professionnelle en système électrotechniques

SOCOTEC
Formation métiers dans les domaines de l’électricité, habilitations électriques, prévention des risques pour la conduite en sécurité

RSMA
Régiment du Service Militaire Adapté de Nouvelle-Calédonie

Lycée Polyvalent Jules Garnier

Lycée Professionnel Père Guéneau Bourail

Lycée Professionnel Pétro Attiti Nouméa

Lycée Professionnel Augustin Ty Touho

Lycée Professionnel Marcellin Champagnat Paita

Lycée Michel ROCARD Pouembout

Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Nouvelle-Calédonie – CCI
15 rue de Verdun – BP M3 – 98849 Nouméa cedex.
Tel : 24.31.00

Centre de Formation de l’Artisanat
CFA de la Chambre des métiers et de l’artisanat
1 rue Juliette BERNARD – BP 2507 – 98846 Nouméa cedex.
Tel : 25.01.73

Direction de la Formation Professionnelle Continue – DFPC
B.P. 110
98845 Nouméa
Tél : 27.04.77

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers – CNAM
5 bis rue de Verdun
Immeuble CCI – 2ième étage
BP 3562
98846 NOUMEA CEDEX
Tél. : 28 37 07 / 28 13 90

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