Trainer Profile
Mike Charleston, of Bradgate Sylvester Limited been a consultant to industry and commerce for the last 25 years. The majority of his work has been undertaken for clients in the construction, facilities management and petrochemical industry sectors.
Mike's experience has ranged between the extremes of power station construction and internal office refurbishment. He is a Chartered Engineer (MI Mech E) and a Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner as well as being a member of the Energy Institute and the Chartered Management Institute.
Mike is a former maintenance manager within heavy engineering and therefore understands operational issues. His time in this field was divided between Africa and the UK.
As a trainer, Mike has worked with workforce operatives, front-line supervisors and various levels of management teams. He has delivered many 5 day presentations that were relevant to work on off-shore oil and gas installations after Piper Alpha. More recently, Mike has worked with a multi-national client on training and assessing the competence of key senior personnel in several European countries.
Mike runs 1, 2, 3 and 5 day training courses for a broad range of personnel working in the hydrocarbons industry. He has trained more than 300 industry personnel in RCM2 techniques outside of the United Kingdom in onshore and offshore, upstream and downstream operations.
Bradgate Sylvester Limited are members of the Aladon Network which is owned and operated by Ivara Corporation. Members of this global network of reliability experts are certified by Ivara as practitioners in the delivery of Ivara RCM2 and Ivara MTA - two advanced methodologies offering team-based approaches to developing a reliability strategy for all the assets in an organisation.
The global network has helped clients apply Reliability Centred Maintenance on more than 2000 sites in over 80 countries. More than 55,000 people have attended Ivara's RCM2 training courses worldwide. Network members are the exclusive providers of world class Ivara RCM2 and MTA training and consulting services, as well as Ivara EXP Professional software.

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the leading application of Reliability Centered Maintenance, Ivara RCM2.
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