Calling on a technical assistance company means expanding your team from time to time with outside consultants who bring new or complementary skills to a project. But during the course of a project, what are the key moments to call on a technical assistance company like Easy Skill?
Major industrial projects are becoming increasingly ambitious and complex. Although they are all different, and require a mix of skills that vary from project to project, any major project can be summed up in 3 main phases:
- A study and design phase
- A construction or deployment phase
- An operation or production phase
For each of these major phases, the company's needs evolve around its core business. It is therefore important for the company to be able to adapt quickly to support the workload and bring all the necessary skills to the project.
- Case n°1 : Absorbing the workload in the design phase with technical assistance
- Case n°2 : Adding to your team's skills portfolio during the deployment phaset
- Case n°3 : Ensuring follow-up and troubleshooting during the early opertional phase
- Case n°4 : Setting up a project management team for the duration of the project
Case n°1 : Absorbing the workload in the design phase with technical assistance
In the initial study, design or prototyping phase, you need to be able to absorb a heavy workload, so as not to fall behind from the outset and get the project off on the right track.
This phase often requires you to supplement your design office team with a variety of skills: draughtsmen/project designers, systems engineers, design engineers, test engineers, developers...
Case n°2 : Adding to your team's skills portfolio during the deployment phase
In the second phase of a project, when a new production unit is being rolled out or a new industrial site is being built, a wide range of skills must be brought together: civil, process, mechanical, electronic, software, network, infrastructure, safety, health and environmental engineers....
Not all of these skills can be found in-house at the start of the project. So it's not always a good idea to recruit them, because once the project phase is over, it can be difficult to find them a new assignment in line with their skills and aspirations. This is where technical assistance comes into its own.
Read: Technical assistance: the alternative to recruitment
Case n°3 : Ensuring follow-up and troubleshooting during the early operational phase
In the third and final phase of the project, the client expects to receive support for several months after construction or deployment has been completed. The company in charge of the project must therefore be able to bring in new resources and new skills to support the ramp-up of a new production line, for example, or to manage the various problems inherent in starting up a new industrial site.
New profiles are needed, more focused on trouble-shooting, managing and steering preventive and corrective maintenance actions, and production supervision...
Read: The 6 steps to integrating technical support talent with Easy Skill
Case n°4 : Setting up a project management team for the duration of the project
To ensure that all these project phases run at the right tempo and with precise cost management, it is sometimes necessary to call in external consultants with key skills in project management, cost control and overall supervision of HSE issues, for example, to ensure that no problems arise during the project.
These are often cross-disciplinary skills that industrial companies don't have in-house, as they would have to cover a very broad spectrum of skills.
Calling on technical assistance is therefore rarely a one-off need. Throughout a project, it's a way of developing your team around the core competencies you already have in-house, so that you can adapt to all the important stages.
While from an organizational point of view, technical assistance is totally relevant, it's also an alternative to recruitment that allows you to manage costs as closely as possible to the real needs of the project. If you feel the need to outsource certain aspects of your projects, don't hesitate to get in touch with our team today.
Pierre Bussy
Co-Founder
A man inspired to change the world who launched the company in 2014. He drives internal change and growth with an unwavering commitment to challenging the status quo. No challenge is too big to tackle. As a Frenchie living down under, he enjoys the beach and building his racing motorbike.
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