Industrial project management for plants that can't stop.

Manufacturing plants rarely get to pick one problem at a time. The automation project is behind, the maintenance backlog is growing, and the maintenance manager just gave notice. ProjectMAINT exists for exactly that intersection — one principal who has sat in the plant engineering seat, the maintenance manager's seat, and the capital project owner's seat, and can carry whichever one you are missing.

Every engagement is run with the owner's P&L in view: cost, constructability, operations impact, safety, and long-term reliability. We do not deliver a binder and leave. We deliver a project that comes in and a maintenance program that keeps running after we are gone.

Sectors served: food & beverage, automotive Tier 1, chemical & process, and metals — with 20+ years of plant engineering, maintenance, and capital project leadership behind the work.

End-to-end owner-side execution for automation cells, process and packaging systems, utility and infrastructure upgrades, and facility builds — scope, schedule, and budget held where they belong. We read the drawings and catch the constructability trap before it becomes an RFI, control cost before it becomes a change order, and coordinate electrical, mechanical, structural, civil, controls, and fire protection under one accountable point of contact.

Experience spans robotic automation cells, e-coat and finishing systems, process and packaging lines, wastewater treatment, and plant utility infrastructure — delivered inside operating facilities where production kept running around the work. Projects are managed to your P&L: every decision weighed against cost, constructability, operations impact, and the maintenance team that inherits the asset.

Unplanned downtime is a cost line, not a weather event. We assess the maintenance organization the way an owner would — work management, PM program, planning and scheduling, spare parts, CMMS data, skills, and leadership — and build a reliability program disciplined enough to survive after we leave.

The result at a Tier 1 automotive plant was a 20% reduction in maintenance-driven downtime. The method was not exotic: a PM program matched to actual failure modes, a planning and scheduling discipline that put wrench time ahead of firefighting, and a maintenance team led like the production asset it is.

A maintenance manager vacancy does not pause the plant. It shows up as deferred PMs, growing backlog, overtime, and a team making decisions nobody is accountable for. Interim maintenance management puts a hands-on, on-site leader in the seat within weeks — someone who has led maintenance organizations of 45+ and can stabilize operations, protect output, and leave the department stronger than it was found.

Engagements typically run three to nine months on site, and can include defining the permanent role, interviewing candidates, and onboarding the hire so the transition is a handoff rather than another gap. Fractional coverage is available for smaller or multi-site operations.