Department setup & support

Most maintenance departments are not failing — they are drowning. Good technicians, no bandwidth: everything is reactive, the PM schedule has been "next quarter" for two years, and the one person who knows the critical machine cannot take a holiday. We support the team you have rather than replacing it.

Building a department from scratch

For a plant that has never had a formal maintenance function:

• CMMS setup — asset register, work orders, PM schedules, and a system simple enough that it actually gets used.
• The written PM programme — tasks, intervals, and pass/fail numbers for every critical asset.
• Spare-parts strategy — what to shelve, what to source on demand, driven by criticality rather than guesswork.
• Troubleshooting procedures — written for your machines, so the knowledge is on paper instead of in one person's head.

Reinforcing the department you have

• Extra hands when it matters — shutdowns, turnarounds, and the weeks when the backlog wins.
• A second opinion — the fault that has beaten your best tech twice deserves fresh instruments and a fresh sequence.
• Administrative and logistics support — planning, scheduling, parts chasing, contractor wrangling: the office half of maintenance that steals wrench time.
• Technical mentoring — working alongside your junior techs on real faults, teaching the reasoning and not just the fix. See training for the structured version.

Why us for this

Francisco has run maintenance from both chairs — as the in-house technician getting the 2am call, and as the supervisor answering for the budget. Thirteen years across plants, field service, controls and supervision is exactly the mix this work needs: enough hands-on credibility to lead technicians, enough planning scar tissue to build a programme that survives contact with a real production schedule.