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Fabrication and mechanicalMaintenance and shutdown crewsDrilling, civil and electricalIndustrial safety, WHS and RTOs

Stop waiting for the tier one to call.

The tier one contractors hold the multi year master agreements, and the specialist hears about a shutdown when the phone rings the week before. We watch shutdown calendars, capex announcements, contract extensions and maintenance hiring every day, and pitch on your behalf to the maintenance superintendent, the package manager and the site owner, months before the scope is let.

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The scopes are announced. The specialists just never see them.

A $145 million round of maintenance and shutdown extensions across Olympic Dam, Gladstone and the Pilbara was announced publicly this quarter. Every one of those scopes is subcontracted, and the specialists who win them wrote to the package manager first.

The problem

1. Overflow, at their rates, on their timing

The tier one calls when it is short. Our job is to make you the specialist they plan around, and to open the plant level relationship the tier one would rather you did not have.

The opportunity

2. Shutdowns, transmission, data centres

Multi year maintenance extensions at the major sites, the transmission build through regional NSW, and a $150 billion data centre pipeline to 2030. All of it needs fabrication, mechanical, electrical and safety scopes.

The window

3. Three to six months out

Shutdowns are scheduled a year ahead and resourced a quarter ahead. Capex projects appoint a contractor months before mobilisation. That is when we put your business in front of the person resourcing it.

What we look for

4. Extensions, capex, hiring, 1 July

Contract extension announcements, capex approvals and site expansions, job ads for maintenance planners and shutdown coordinators, and the 1 July 2026 workers compensation reforms.

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Is this you?

Specialists who take scopes from tier one contractors and site owners in mining, processing, energy and manufacturing. If most of this reads like your business, this page is written for you. If it does not, the market size check says so in two minutes.

Structural and mechanical fabricationMaintenance and shutdown crewsElectrical and instrumentationDrilling, civil and accessBlasting, painting and insulationIndustrial safety, WHS and RTOs
Size

Owner run, a workshop plus crews, where the owner or general manager prices the scope and holds the site relationships.

Who gives out the work

The package manager inside the tier one, the maintenance superintendent inside the owner, or the WHS manager who just received the premium notice.

Deal shape

Scopes from $20,000 shutdown packages to multi year maintenance terms, resourced a quarter ahead.

Where

Australia wide, including Gladstone, Mackay, the Hunter, the Illawarra and the transmission corridors through regional NSW.

Not a fit

Labour hire without a trade, businesses already inside a tier one master agreement they are happy with, and one off equipment sellers.

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A few of the signs we watch for in industrial services

A few of the signs we track. The full list, and what we do with each one, stays with our clients.

Shutdown calendars and maintenance contract extensions
A major site announcing a two year maintenance extension is announcing two years of subcontracted scopes. The specialists known early are the ones planned in.
Capex approvals, expansions and transmission builds
An approved expansion appoints a contractor months before mobilisation, and the transmission corridors let fabrication, civil and electrical scopes region by region.
Maintenance planner, shutdown coordinator and WHS job ads
A site hiring a shutdown coordinator is a site planning a shutdown. The job ad names the calendar before the scopes are let.

Nothing hidden, in your name.

Every site, package manager and superintendent we approach lives in a shared tracker with the extension or expansion beside it, the exact message sent, and where it sits.

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Before the plan is setIn front of the person resourcing the scope

The businesses that keep the plants running rarely have anyone finding the next scope.

Fabrication shops, maintenance crews, drilling contractors and safety RTOs keep Australia’s plants, mines and grid running. Almost none of them have a person whose job is the next scope. We pitch on behalf of your business to help you win it.

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Before you book.

The questions that come up on nearly every first call, answered the same way we answer them on the call.

We get all our work from referrals. Is this for us?
That is exactly who this is for. Word of mouth comes in waves, and you can’t choose when. We find more of the same kind of client, so the quiet months get smaller.
We tried cold email and it did not work.
Mass email doesn’t work. A bought list, a generic message, sent at the wrong time and dropped after one or two tries. We write to one named person about something real happening in their business, and we follow up long after a busy owner would have stopped.
What do we have to provide?
Sign off on the wording once at the start, a thirty minute catch up each week, and your time for the meetings. We set up the outreach email, the tracker and the list.
I don’t want to sound spammy.
Neither do we. You approve every word before anything is sent, nobody on your do not contact list is ever approached, and we never say anything about your business you can’t stand behind. Every email is business to business, with an easy way to opt out, in line with the Spam Act 2003.

Two minutes to size up the scopes in your area.

Four questions about what you do, where you work and who you sell to. You get a plain answer on whether your market is worth it.

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