Project Management

Ensuring Your Project Moves Forward

CEI™ can perform project management either in a full capacity or in an assistance role to our client’s own project managers. Typically, our project management role includes: team leadership in workshops and meetings, minutes and action items that translate into design criteria, competitive bidding of required equipment, and installation services through formal RFQ’s (Request for Quotation) with resulting bid analysis, scope and contract development / management, project scheduling (vendors, manufacturers, client departments, project team), construction support services, and project cost control.

Why Choose Us?

We have taken on large projects for companies that could be categorized as “management systems intense” (a.k.a. bogged down in red tape) and are successful because we understand the corporate system requirements from our own past experience (capital vs. expense rules, cash flow budgeting, account management, corporate approval processes, etc.). CEI™ has an outstanding record for document control, project management standards, specifications development, and high level process engineering. We are also capable of providing the kind of fast paced, effort driven, results oriented engineering services that are required by companies that don’t necessarily want or need these intensive management systems. We can tailor our services to your needs on a project by project basis.

The competitive bidding process is where our clients find they can best justify our services. We often save the client an amount equal to our fee when equipment and services are competitively bid through the use of our formal RFQ system. Also, formalizing this process often weeds out contractors and manufacturers that are not prepared to supply a high level of project management within their own team. This is an immense benefit to the project as it greatly reduces the chance of getting into the construction phase before learning that a vendor or contractor takes shortcuts, is disorganized, causes re-work, and continually submits change orders for installation work. These are often the main contributors to projects running over budget.

Looking for help on your next project?

Our team understands what it takes to execute projects in working food plants that must adhere to strict quality and food safety standards and do not have the luxury of being able to shut down. We work on retrofit projects in existing plants as well as new greenfield and brownfield facilities with capital ranging from a few thousand dollars to 500+ million dollars.

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