LCE Corporate Capabilities Brief-Life Cycle Talent
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LCE provides outsourced maintenance and reliability staffing solutions to industrial clients. They offer full outsourced support from leadership roles to individual maintenance professionals. They serve industries like manufacturing, utilities, food and beverage. LCE helps clients find qualified reliability engineers, asset managers, planners and materials managers. Case studies describe how LCE deployed professionals to support clients in commercial marine, aluminum manufacturing, food production and oil production.
LCE Corporate Capabilities Brief-Life Cycle Talent
- 1. LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING CORPORATE CAPABILITIES 1 WHAT WE DO: LCE provides long- and short-term staff solutions to help manage your Maintenance and Reliability management functions. We offer a full range of outsourced contract support from staffing and managing leadership roles (including Maintenance Manager, Reliability Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Planner / Scheduler, and MRO storeroom leader) to providing individual maintenance professionals in your maintenance department. WHO WE SERVE: Metals, Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Power Generation and Utilities, Food and Beverage, Transit When companies are looking for their own people, LCE can help clients find qualified resources with the following skill sets: • Reliability Engineers • Asset Management SMEs • Planning and Scheduling SMEs • (MRO) Materials Management SMEs • Maintenance professionals • Operational management professionals LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING LIFE CYCLE TALENT
- 2. LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING CORPORATE CAPABILITIES 2 LIFE CYCLE TALENT LCE Supports Commercial Marine Industry through Client-Site Professionals A global manufacturer of marine propulsion engines, marine generators, and fuel handling systems required additional reliability engineering support. Support was needed to create FMEAs to define what equipment needs to be monitored in order to change from time-based to condition-based overhauls and to reduce the need to open the engine and inspect parts as required by class societies like the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). There was a need to develop and train the manufacturer’s in-house engineers, dealers, and customers, as well. Directly hiring and training a new employee is a lengthy and expensive process, particularly when there is an immediate need to meet client demand. The result will be that customers can reduce the scope and frequency of these intrusive inspections based on equipment health data, thus reducing the length of time in dry dock and allowing the vessel to get back in service more quickly. SOLUTION RESULTS CHALLENGE To resolve this issue, LCE: • Deployed two Reliability Engineers who are employees of LCE to work at the manufacturer’s site on a full-time basis for 18+ months. • Leveraging LCE’s vast body of knowledge on marine equipment, the Reliability Engineers have expanded the knowledge of the in- house engineering staff. • LCE leveraged adult learning professionals from its Life Cycle Institute to develop and deliver reliability best practice training for the manufacturer’s engineering staff, dealers, and customers.
- 3. LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING CORPORATE CAPABILITIES 3 LIFE CYCLE TALENT LCE Supports Aluminum Parts Manufacturer through Client-Site Professionals A global producer of aluminum parts was having a high level of equipment failure that their in-house staff was not able to address due to lack of experience and bandwidth. The companies did not have the internal reliability engineering business processes required to effectively capture and address these failures. The site was unable to get approval to hire more direct staff. As a result of LCE’s immediate placement, the manufacturer’s engineers are utilizing best practice standards for analytics development and developing and deploying new reliability models to support new and existing commercial installations. The manufacturer operates with reduced risk and reduced labor cost by utilizing LCE’s expert talent only for as long as needed to accomplish their asset and reliability goals. SOLUTION RESULTS CHALLENGE To resolve this issue, LCE: • Deployed two Reliability Engineers who are employees of LCE to work at the manufacturer’s site on a full-time basis for 12 months. During that time the LCE resources: • Provided experienced, expert reliability engineering support to build the required business processes • Developed the business processes that accurately documented the financial impact of the failures • Performed multiple root cause failure analyses (RCFA) and developed preventive maintenance (PM) programs and recommendations to minimize or eliminate failures • Provided services to meet the manufacturer’s specific need
- 4. LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING CORPORATE CAPABILITIES 4 LIFE CYCLE TALENT LCE Supports Food Manufacturing Company through Client-Site Professionals A global manufacturer of food products was in need of a director of Engineering and Maintenance (E&M). They had experienced major turnover in their staff that had severely impacted their ability to respond to the business' day-to-day needs, as well as longer term requirements. Including both salary and hourly roles, 75% of all E&M positions needed to be filled. Rebuilding this totally decimated group into a fully functioning Engineering & Maintenance organization was clearly the top priority. Directly hiring and training a new employee is a lengthy and expensive process, particularly when there is an immediate need to meet client demand. Having a seasoned resource that could be quickly plugged into this situation was critical. The experienced LCE expert has been invaluable in identifying top talent and helping to begin rebuilding this organization: • A strong Maintenance Supervisor/Reliability Engineer candidate has been hired • Despite challenges related to timing (year- end holidays, COVID, etc.), strong candidates have been identified for all of the other salaried positions and are currently in the interview cycle • Mechanic pay rates were not competitive with the local market and have now been reset. An advertising “blitz” is being created to highlight the new wage rate, and it will soon be possible to attract qualified candidates to join this organization As a result of LCE’s immediate placement, the manufacturer is beginning to work its way out of this dire situation. SOLUTION RESULTS CHALLENGE To resolve this issue, LCE: • Deployed an experienced E&M Director who is an employee of LCE to work at the manufacturer’s site on a full-time basis for 6 months. Once on-site, the E&M Director took actions to accelerate the filling of multiple open positions, including: • Establishing a network of capable recruiters to source qualified candidates • Developing a multi-pronged advertising strategy to help locate candidates, especially for the hourly positions • Leading an effort to evaluate the wage rates of the hourly E&M workforce relative to local industry • He has also provided the day-to-day leadership and technical support required to keep the plant operational.
- 5. LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING CORPORATE CAPABILITIES 5 LIFE CYCLE TALENT LCE Supports Global Oil Producer through Client-Site Professionals A global oil producer required additional reliability engineering to support root cause analysis (RCA) investigations aimed at minimizing deferment and maximizing safety on its oil producing platforms. Directly hiring and training a new employee is a lengthy and expensive process, particularly when there is an immediate need to meet client demand. As a result of LCE’s immediate placement, the company’s engineers are finding causal factors associated with high level deferment events, safety incidents, and spearheading change management aimed at driving best practices company wide. The company operates with reduced risk and reduced labor cost by utilizing LCE’s expert talent only for as long as needed to accomplish their asset and reliability goals. SOLUTION RESULTS CHALLENGE To resolve this issue, LCE: • Deployed an LCE Reliability Engineer to join a dedicated RCA team at the corporate headquarters on a full time basis for 18 months • Provided expert reliability engineering support in the analysis of the failures, safety investigations, and development of the failure mitigation and control strategies
- 6. LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING CORPORATE CAPABILITIES 6 LIFE CYCLE TALENT LCE Supports Industrial & Manufacturing Clients through Direct Placement of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals A consumer goods manufacturing client was struggling to hire key Reliability Engineers in a remote part of the country. Their recruiting team had exhausted all internal options, and operations was suffering 6 months into the search. A manufacturing client was expanding rapidly, doubling their facility and employee headcount. They were struggling to attract the right talent for key Maintenance & Reliability leadership roles as they staffed individual contributor roles. As a result, deploying key processes and programs was delayed. As a result of LCE’s direct placement services, our clients have the internal staff and leadership needed to execute plans and initiatives that improve reliability and company performance. SOLUTION RESULTS CHALLENGE To resolve this issue, LCE: • Engaged the client’s operations leadership and human resources team to understand the challenges they faced during the recruiting process • Provided feedback on market pay, candidate experience/length of hiring process, and online employment brand, among others • Provided additional candidate sourcing support through LCE’s recruiting capabilities and robust network of maintenance & reliability professionals