Does Line Maintenance Management realise that there are plenty of LAME's in the Heavy Maintenance sheds getting minimal to no overtime that are ready and willing to assist the Line boys at any time? All they have to do is ask. If the backlog is so bad on the line, surely Heavy Maintenance Management could let a few LAME's go every now and then. It's not like the blokes are run flat off their feet in the middle of a C4 check (except the sheetys!). It shouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility to establish an arrangement between the two departments to get some sort of call in system going. Obviously first option at OT being the lineys and then if not enough take up, look at the Heavy Maintenance availability list and call em up. Would any Line guys care to comment? Would you prefer Heavy Maintenance blokes come to assist on OT or would you prefer casuals from outside? Furthermore, I note that in the latest ALAEA notice, it is advised that casuals (if they end up working on line) would be prime candidates for taking up permanent positions as they become available. In my opinion, it should be the Heavy Maintenace and Base Maintenance guys that should be the prime candidates and indeed be given preference for any permanent positions that become available on line. To my mind it seems a logical career progression to develop from apprentice to heavy/base as ame then lame and then progress to line. Any comments?
For one, when the SIT guys are putting in for O/T, the only option that is given is 12 hours over at base to help them out. Nothing on line as we have no foreign customers, and QF management seem to be balking at bringing them back, or making it very difficult for them to come back. And as has been stated, when guys are putting in for O/T, there are no call backs to come in, so the SIT guys have become accustomed to getting no O/T and therefoe doing no O/T, particularly with the system in place to lodge a chit for O/T by way of fax, and get an SMS to say to come in and report to the base supervisors.
With the current change in engineering management, we can only hope that there is acknowledgement from management of the stuff ups of the past management and move on, otherwise it's just more of the same, but with different names.
It will take more than just O/T to fix the mess that has been left by MH and created by DC. Maybe he should be replaced and have a totally clean slate to start with.