E6 here.
I do a shit ton of corrective maintenance and troubleshooting, as that's what I truly love.
It takes a lot of ability as a leader to be able to do this, as you have to have your division running smoothly.
I make sure that my admin skills are up to the challenge, so that I can moonwalk through any issues that come up, and move on to shit I actually care about.
If you can't personally knock out a force revision on a big workcenter by yourself in a few hours, you REALLY need to spend more time in the 3M instructions and get better.
At the LPO level, there isn't a single thing you do that should take more than an hour of your time per day administratively if you are managing your time and people properly.
If something like DITS is a big panic evolution that keeps you late as fuck for a few days, you are fucking up and not staying on top of that stuff day to day.
I also delegate the day to day stuff to the minions. This ensures they are well trained, and leaves me free to do the fun stuff. This doesn't mean they do all the work, this means they spend as many hours per day working as I do. This is what appropriate delegation is all about.
I expect all of my workcenter supervisors to be articulate in MFOM and write/route their own CASREPS if needed. Shit like PMS boards is complete easymode amateur hour for my guys.
The fact that my people are empowered enough to do their own CASREPS means that we can get resources before things blow up into huge problems. I had one of my WCS's float a CASREP for screws, because supply kept playing stupid fucking games. Guess how much we stressed out before our INSURV? I had my people going home at 1400 ever day in the week leading up to the inspection. We passed. We also took care of day to day business and jumped on small problems as they came up.
When shit goes totally south and breaks, I am free to actually bring my knowledge and experience to bear on the problem. I always make sure I have both my SME, and the most junior person responsible for that equipment present. I get to pick the SME's brain, as well as train the young'in.
I have never failed to promote at least one of my guys every single advancement cycle since 2012, despite relatively low quotas for ET's. I expect my guys to perform at a very high level, and they deliver, because they are actually doing the job day in day out.
The guys that spend their days buried in admin suck at admin, and also generally lack their core in rate skills to skate through the issues that come up.
You know what I've done this underway? Absolutely fucking nothing beyond routing a few chits and responding to a few casualties with my guys. Last night I got to stand around holding a flashlight while the minions tackled a fairly major casualty in FDSSS. They didn't need me there, but I still got to be involved with the process. I slept 16 hours the day before that, because I could. It was amazing.
TL;DR, if you want to avoid admin shit, get as good at possible at admin shit and train your people, so that you spend less of your time dealing with admin shit. Once all your ducks are in a row, it's a simple exercise in staying on top of the little things.