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Powerhouse Resources extends its market support Powerhouse Resources has been successfully delivering services to support across the energy sector for quarter of a century, with hundreds of years collective experience. We reduce risks, costs and schedule associated with outages, whether planned or emergent. Over the last 25 years Powerhouse Resources has supported by providing teams and skilled craft with very specific specialized skills, to meet the need. We have cemented ourselves as a trusted supplier for operators across the United States, growing 63% year on year.  Demand for the reliable capability that we supply has grown significantly, as a result of the far reaching reputation of our team. Alongside requirements to provide full service teams we also receive requests for skilled individual personnel on short and long term basis. To meet this demand we have merged with Powerhouse Resources South Carolina, an established staffing company providing resources to meet the requirements across the critical infrastructure arena. This means we are able to respond quickly to individual staffing requirements and provide the right person for the right job, utilizing our handpicked database.  The integration of two independently reliable and trusted organizations enables both companies to work together to source and deliver the best talent to our clients, whether this is a staffing requirement or skilled team to deliver a turnkey project. It enables us to further help our clients receive a broader and deeper service offering by working with us.  We join with our same core values of integrity and authenticity, excellence and accountability, customer centered and supportive, collaborative and evolving. And continue to hold all of our placements to these high standards, as we service customers across the critical infrastructure arena to maximize value through strategic operations and maintenance support. Moving forward we combine deep technical expertise for maintenance and outage support, with the strategic operations support needed to guide asset-intensive organizations through this next era of operations.  Most Recent Posts All Post Category 1 Powerhouse Resources extends its market support The importance of continual training Preparing for a successful outage season Explore our services

The importance of continual training Many of the team at Powerhouse Resources have been hands on working their way up from nuclear navy days as mechanics and electricians, working as operators at nuclear plants and then ultimately as suppliers to utilities to support them during the vital management of assets, in often dangerous and intense conditions.  Through this time we have all witnessed changes to the industry such as the increased need to do more for less, with reduced schedule, budgets and resources, increased legislation and Health and Safety requirements. Each of which is critically important to the industry as it embarks on increasing pressures to provide reliable, secure and affordable energy, not to mention the net zero targets for 2050.  One thing we have consistently found – is that it doesn’t matter how established or experienced you are in the industry or how well versed on procedures you are, things are always changing, circumstances always vary, and we must all be prepared for that and armed with the most up to date, and reliable knowledge to complement our experience.  This is the reason we run rigorous continual training for everyone that we send to site and also training programs for our clients to support them to be fully versed, effective and safe. The training philosophy is driven by maximizing human performance and measured by the effectiveness of results on site. With the training delivered by the leaders within Powerhouse Resources, who have all worked on the tough end of plant operations, we ensure that everyone that comes out of the classroom has the most recent and current industrial standards and best practices to apply in the working environment, which are transferrable across the portfolio of plants.  Our training focuses on the latest specialist skills for individuals’ mastery, health and safety best practice, leadership and operational effectiveness to arm everyone whether representing Powerhouse or the client is fully prepared to optimize productivity safely and within regulations.   Most Recent Posts All Post Category 1 Powerhouse Resources extends its market support The importance of continual training Preparing for a successful outage season Explore our services

Preparing for a successful outage season The success of an outage season is dependent on the scoping, scheduling, planning and meticulous management throughout the process. Although we all know things always change when you get into delivery, there are always unforeseen situations when you start to take things apart. But with knowledge, experience and thorough planning, scheduling, risks, resources and costs the unforeseen can be mitigated and adapted to with ease.  Planning for an outage season starts long before the shutdown, and is critical to getting the plant back on line and at full productivity quickly. It requires utilizing experience and current knowledge of the environment, external conditions and best practices.  We recommend a number of steps to ensure a smooth turnaround:  1. Accurate scoping and scheduling to ensure everything and everyone arrives on site when required, this reduces the risk of delays and inefficiencies.  2. Focus on safety to ensure everyone on the team is fully trained and operates with a safety first mentality in everything they do, and witness others doing. Everyone is coachable. 3. Ensure the leader accountable for the outage has full visibility over everything, is pedantic about management, the schedule and budget. And the team operates with openness and transparency so that risks are identified early, mitigated and changes are captured, addressed by skilled professionals and executed promptly.  4. Identify the gaps in the team and work with a partner to provide this expertise that also has the flexibility to adapt quickly and effectively as changes occur and operates with zero rework mentality so that things are done right the first time. As issues are identified it is important to have a partner that is flexible and responsive to ensure they are addressed quickly.  As much as we recognize early and effective planning is critical for the success of an outage, if the schedule and resource allocation is not monitored, measured, and updated throughout the outage it becomes redundant and a fruitless exercise. Planning, management, close out and the application of lessons learned is the way to continue to move the industry forward, minimizing safety hazards, optimizing processes and achieving continuous performance improvements.  Most Recent Posts All Post Category 1 Powerhouse Resources extends its market support The importance of continual training Preparing for a successful outage season Explore our services