PMC´s  approach relies on early and focused business planning, front-end loading (FEL), and a disciplined framework to achieve best-in-class results. Our consultants start with conducting a capital portfolio evaluation that analyzes planned and prioritized capital projects, performance history, and future client business needs and objectives. We then customize a structured approach for planning and executing your capital projects through business, project and facility planning to project design, construction, start-up, and operation.  SPMC System is highly structured to ensure disciplined gatekeeping execution and risk mitigation at each project stage.

As certified management consultants we provide expert advice to others. As Selamina project management consultancy (SPMC), we provide expert project management advice to external businesses. Companies hire us if they lack project management expertise. Or if they want project management advices from an external, impartial party.

Our award-winning team helps clients unlock the full potential of capital projects by providing sound advice on risk and how it can be mitigated, as well as by identifying opportunities to improve the value and sustainability of projects. They enable public and private stakeholders to make informed decisions, providing them with the confidence to commit to projects. We have advised on public-private partnerships and private finance initiatives projects, helping to bring more sites into line with international best practice for risk allocation

Projects and Programs must be delivered with ever-increasing efficiency in both time and money, with enhanced sustainability, and with zero tolerance for unsafe and unhealthy practice. Whatever the size of the project, success depends on the effective collaboration of all those involved, and understanding and overcoming challenges around governance, risk, scope control, and stakeholder engagement. Our project teams plan, lead, and control every aspect of the project life cycle across:

• Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals
• Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
• Energy and Utilities,
• Food & Beverages
• Building and Construction Industries​

SPMC Services

1. Capital Project Management

Drawing on decades of owner-operator experience, SELAMINA has developed one of the most efficient and effective managing processes for capital projects. As a result, client projects are better positioned to achieve on-time and on-budget execution, targeted operability, and reduction in overall investment risk.

A system delivering best-in-class results.

Our consultants draw on the experience and knowledge they have gained from managing some of the world’s most complex and innovative capital projects to create a customized program for clients that emphasizes front end planning, disciplined execution, and operational readiness. As a result, client projects are better positioned to achieve on-time and on-budget execution, targeted operability, and reduction in overall investment risk. Typically, our capital project execution methodology yields an average range of 10-15% improvement in overall capital effectiveness versus industry benchmarks.

In addition to enhancing the ultimate success of a project, we also help capital project owners and financiers effectively define and manage the broad range of stakeholder needs and risks that are involved with investing in major capital projects.

The SELAMINA Capital Project Management approach relies on early and focused business planning, front-end loading (FEL), and a disciplined framework to achieve best-in-class results. Our consultants start with conducting a capital portfolio evaluation that analyzes planned and prioritized capital projects, performance history, and future client business needs and objectives. We then customize a structured approach for planning and executing your capital projects through business, project and facility planning to project design, construction, start-up, and operation. The SELAMINA Capital Project Management System is highly structured to ensure disciplined gatekeeping execution and risk mitigation at each project stage.

The benefits of an integrated management system.

Our capital project solutions help your business integrate industry leading management processes, develop critical project leadership skills and capabilities, and design and implement project organizational structures that will help ensure competitive and sustainable business results over the full life cycle of each new capital asset.

The SELAMINA Capital Project Management methodology includes:

• Project implementation process improvements
• Project resource development
• Value-Improving Practices (VIPs) and standards
• Readiness-to-Operate (RTO)—enabling a smooth transition and start-up for new or existing operations
• Capital project implementation support through coaching and mentoring
• Project optimization and business integration, drawing on our consulting practices in process safety and operational risk management, construction management, project controls, technology screening, and lean supply chain management

2. Contractor Management

SELAMINA offers proven frameworks and models for success in managing contractors. Regardless of your contracting requirements, our processes can address your safety and performance management issues and help you and your contractors achieve sustainable results. 

A proven partner to ensure contracting effectiveness.

Our consultants begin by clearly defining business needs and range of contracting options. We then integrate proven best practices into your organization’s identified areas of opportunity. The process is a partnership.  Our aim is not to change client systems, but to build client-specific methodologies and implementation tools to help ensure immediate results and a working process for continuous performance improvement. In addition, you will gain customized tools and processes that guide you through:  contractor bidding, contract award, orientation, training, contractor management, auditing and post-contract evaluation.

We help business owners: 

• Protect people, the environment, and assets
• Proactively mitigate contractor performance risk
• Reduce project general liability and worker insurance costs
• Improve contractor performance, as measured through assessments and audits

We help contract managers: 

• Protect people, the environment, and assets
• Manage the safety and quality performance of short-duration employees
• Strengthen credibility with owners for repeat business and better market competitiveness
• Gain access to best practices for project management to help avoid disruption, productivity loss, and schedule slippage

Our six-step contractor management process.

Years of SELAMINA contracting experience has resulted in the development of a proprietary six-step implementation process that drives contractor performance success. With this system, our clients understand and apply our effective contractor management methodologies to control and build successful contracted environments.

• Contractor Selection We help clients compile a qualified bidders list, pre-screened for safety compatibility with the organization’s operating safety principles.
• Contract Preparation Providing volumes of lessons learned, best practices and policy, we help clients craft binding documents that effectively communicate performance expectations for the best possible contracted outcomes.
• Contract Award This step enables clients to conduct an effective review of specifications in bid pre-award and kickoff meetings, arriving at clear understandings of performance expectations by all parties.
• Orientation and Training Our approach engage contract workers in the site and culture, building skills, knowledge and a shared commitment to performance requirements.
•  Managing the Contractors Based on the 12 Essential Elements for successful daily contractor management, we provide management system support that yields continuous improvement in system policy, procedure and contract administration.
• Post-Contract Evaluation We provide tools to capture and assess contractor performance periodically and upon contract completion, which ultimately help to improve future contract selection and contractor performance.

3. Safety and Operational Risk Management

In every business, there’s an element of the unexpected. Regulations change, technology advances at an accelerated pace, competition increases, there’s pressure to do more with less – and the list grows year by year. So when it comes to planning ahead and managing risk, what makes the difference between success and failure? 

Start with the right framework.

Using the SPMC Integrated Framework, our consultants integrate processes, technology, governance, mindsets and behaviors, culture and capabilities to mitigate risk and create safer, more productive work environments. We can help you improve your business performance by protecting, creating and extracting more value from all of your assets.

In partnership with our clients, we develop tailored, outcome-based solutions that specifically address your risk landscape. We also identify critical, “quick-win” opportunities for risk reduction so you can start seeing immediate results.

To ensure lasting, continuous organizational progress, we prioritize three areas of improvement:

• Risk Management Architecture: Not all risks to your organization are equal. Enabled by proven technologies and best practices, our risk management architecture helps you manage risk differentially for maximum impact by empowering your team to continuously recognize, prioritize, assess, address, report, and ultimately, mitigate risk.
• Risk-Aware Culture: We strengthen your culture through engagement and continuous learning, focusing on the difference between actions and sustainable outcomes to help your employees understand the importance of risk mitigation.
• Business Resilience: We help your business manage risk so you can thrive and grow during changes, disruptions and unforeseen events. Learn how to prevent disruptions, increase organizational preparedness and recovery and continuously improve operations.

4. Operations Excellence

Today, companies are under increasing pressure to improve their operational performance and stay ahead of rising operational challenges, customer demands and global competition. While it may be tempting to focus on a more narrow approach to operational improvements, these fragmented initiatives rarely succeed long-term and can end up wasting valuable time and resources.

As companies try to increase operational efficiency and productivity, how can they ensure they have the right near and long-term plan in place to optimize performance while building resilience and flexibility?

Unleash your full potential.

Addressing the operational pressures companies face requires a targeted, holistic approach. Through the SELAMINA Integrated Framework, our seasoned consultants use their world-class, real-world experience to design an integrated and customized plan that takes your current operational reality fully into account.

Working closely with clients, we start by listening to and analyzing your entire organization to identify critical operational objectives, links, and gaps and better understand and clarify your opportunities for growth. This analysis allows us to help you better embed a best-in-class operation/production structure that addresses your challenges with minimal disruption to current operations. We then go a step further to address and improve the skills, management and cultural shifts that are necessary to drive lasting success in your organization.

Ultimately, our goal is to work with you throughout every stage so that your entire workforce is empowered and equipped to sustain changes. And clients continuously improve upon their gains for years to come.

• Make operational excellence a reality: Whether you’re looking to improve maintenance and reliability or end-to-end supply chain efficiency, our dynamic framework identifies and optimizes outcomes, reduces risks, increases efficiencies and fosters continuous innovation. 
• Processes and Technology: Evaluate whether you have the proper technology, equipment, tools, processes, procedures, and best practices in place to drive operational efficiency and reduce risk.
• Capabilities Building: Ensure every level of your organization has the right role-specific skills, competencies and information to perform roles and tasks effectively.
• Mindsets and Behaviors: Provide your workforce with the context, reasoning and knowledge they need to align their attitudes, mindsets and behaviors to drive operational change.
• Governance and Management Systems: Give employees the right managerial and leadership processes to operate productively, and the governance structure to monitor, report and benchmark progress.

5. EPCm services

• Project Management: SPMC is managed by a group of engineering and project management professionals and technologists who are dedicated to superior quality and performance. We employ advanced technologies, systems and processes that deliver not only reliable results, but also streamlined efficiency. Our extensive technical expertise and adaptability ensures that innovative project management solutions can be applied to a wide variety of situations, in particular, in capital project development.

Here’s what you can expect when you work with SPMC:

• Systematic Approach to Project Management
• Definition, Communication & Management of Project Scope
• Definition, Communication, Implementation and Monitoring of Quality Standards on all Project Deliverables
• Creation & Maintenance of Project Schedules, including Activities Sequence, Dependencies, Work *Effort & Resources
• Forecasting, Cost Estimating, Tracking & Management of Project Budgets
• Project Risks / Issues Management

Through effective communication and the integration of varied services, we offer innovative engineering and project management support from conceptual feasibility through detailed design, procurement  and construction management, commissioning, start-up, operation and maintenance. Here is an overview of our service offerings:

• Contract Administration & Supervision
• Computerized Cost Accounting & Control
• Project Reporting & Controls
• EPC Scheduling & Planning
• Integrated Supply Chain Management Services
• Engineering & Construction Quality Control
• Shop & Field Inspection
• Site Material Receiving & Control
• Construction Specifications Safety Management
• Tender Package Evaluation

• Engineering Management : Our multi-discipline team provides a full spectrum of engineering services for the oilsands, petrochemical industries, utilities and oil and gas sector. Our adaptability and depth of knowledge allows us to excel at project management, construction support and sustainable maintenance projects. Whether we are in the field or back at our offices, we ensure that we maintain the highest standards in quality and safety.

At SPMC, our diverse expertise includes:

• Project Management and Project Coordination
• Design & Field Engineering (including qualified Factory & Site Acceptance Testing)
• Process Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Petroleum Engineering
• Mechanical & Piping Engineering
• Civil & Structural Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Automation and Instrumentation
• 3D Modeling / Advanced Technologies
• QA / QC Inspection Services and more

• Procurement Management : Procurement management follows a logical order. First, you plan what you need to contract; then you plan how you’ll do it. Next, you send out your contract requirements to sellers. They bid for the chance to work with you. You pick the best one, and then you sign the contract with them. Once the work begins, you monitor it to make sure that the contract is being followed. When the work is done, you close out the contract and fill out all the paperwork.

You need to start with a plan for the whole project. Before doing anything else, you need to think about all of the work that you will contract out for your project. You will want to plan for any purchases and acquisitions. Here’s where you take a close look at your needs to be sure that contracting is necessary. You figure out what kinds of contracts make sense for your project, and you try to define all of the parts of the project that will be contracted out.

Contract planning is where you plan out each individual contract for the project work. You work out how you’ll manage the contract, what metrics it will need to meet to be considered successful, how you’ll pick a seller, and how you’ll administer the contract once the work is happening. Here is what SPMC group skill and professionalism saves you a lot, both in reliability, cost and time and needs.

The procurement management plan details how the procurement process will be managed. It includes the following information:

• The types of contracts you plan to use and any metrics that will be used to measure the contractors’ performance
• The planned delivery dates for the work or products you are contracting
• The company’s standard documents you will use
• The number of vendors or contractors involved and how they will be managed
• How purchasing may impact the constraints and assumptions of the project plan
• The coordination of purchasing lead times with the development of the project schedule
• The identification of prequalified sellers (if known)

The procurement management plan, like all other management plans, becomes a subsidiary of the project management plan. Some tools and techniques you may use during the procurement planning stage include make-or-buy analysis and definition of the contract type.

• Make-or-Buy Analysis
• Contract Types
• Progress Payments and Change Management
• Procurement Process
  • Procurement Plan
  • Selecting the Contract Approach
  • Request for Quote
  • Request for Proposal
  • Evaluating Bids
  • Managing the Contracts
  • Awarding the Contract
  • Managing the Contracts
  • Logistics and Expediting

• Construction Management: SPMC actively supports the management of industrial construction through every project phase, from construction to start up. Expert leadership, on-site coordination of contractors, and the provision of procurement support allow our experienced team of Managers and Field Engineers to consistently deliver cost effective, safe and environmentally sensitive solutions to our clients’ challenges.

Our Construction Managers and Supervisors also work closely with our design teams during engineering to ensure that our projects are highly constructible. Too often projects are designed with little or no consideration for construction; this lack of foresight is one of the main contributors to project cost overruns experienced in industry today. One of the hallmarks of a SPMC project is a seamless transition from engineering to construction, with overruns and rework significantly lower than the industry average.

Some of the services our construction management group offers are listed below:

• Hazop & Constructability Reviews
• Monitoring of Safety & Environmental Performance
• Forecasting, Tracking & Management of Project Budgets
• Creation & Maintenance of Project Construction Schedules
• Site Management, Coordination of Contractors & Progress Reporting
• Contract Management
• Start Up and Commissioning
• Turnover and Operations Documentation
• Shutdown Planning

6. PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: We assist organizations in doing the right projects—those with strategic alignment that make the best use of your time, talent, and budget—and doing them right.
7. BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT: We utilize continuous improvement methodologies, such as Lean and Six Sigma, combined with change management approaches to achieve stakeholder buy-in. With engaged stakeholders, the new or refined business processes are clearly defined and sustainably applied throughout your organization.
8. STRATEGY REALIZATION: We translate strategy into action by combining our time-tested expertise in strategic planning, portfolio management, project execution, and organizational engagement to provide a holistic approach to transforming your organization.

Industries and clients Industries:

1.Building and Construction

Our world-class experts have worked with building and construction companies across the world, specializing in complex, capital projects. We bring a strict focus to planning, execution and operation to drive excellent project results and mitigate risk.

Manage your people and your projects effectively.

When you’re working with multiple contractors and vendors to complete a real estate or capital expansion construction project, it can be difficult to meet deadlines on time and on budget while protecting the safety of your people.  SELAMINA offers customized solutions to help you reduce risk, protect your entire workforce (including contractors), boost profitability and ensure compliance with standards and procedures.

Informed by operational best practices and expert methodologies, we partner with you to develop an effective plan that will ensure your capital projects are completed on time and within budget. We also employ best-in-class safety and operational risk management solutions with the goal of building capabilities in your employees, enabling them to contribute to a strong safety culture and ultimately, preventing incidents.

solutions.

Contractor Management: Navigate the world of contractor management and improve the safety of your contract labor force.

Safety and Operational Risk Management: Protect lives, minimize risk, and improve your safety culture with the right operational framework.

Capital Project Management: Execute capital projects on time and on budget while mitigating project risk.

2.  Chemicals & Petrochemicals

Based on our owner/operator experience and our work with leading chemical companies around the world, we have extensive global experience in managing chemical and petrochemical operations to mitigate risk and improve profitability.

Boost profitability while lowering your risk profile.

In today’s chemical and petrochemical industry landscape, it can be challenging to manage operational risks and identify the right opportunities to create value for your organization. Process complexities can lead to low quality of asset maintenance and unplanned shutdowns, while supply chain issues and ever-changing safety and sustainability regulations are constantly hindering your operation’s productivity.

SELAMINA can help you protect, extract and create value within your operation. By implementing a best-in-class risk management framework, you can measure and address risks before they occur, thereby minimizing dangerous incidents. We utilize best practices in process safety, asset maintenance and reliability, and strategic capital project management to drive growth in your organization. And we go beyond the strategy to help embed the proper skills, culture, mindsets and behaviors and processes within your organization that are necessary to ensure sustainable success.

Solutions.

Safety and Operational Risk Management: Protect lives, minimize risk, and improve your safety culture with the right operational framework.

Asset Productivity/Maintenance and Reliability: Improve your asset uptime, turnaround times and maintenance processes.

Capital Project Management: Execute capital projects on time and on budget while mitigating project risk.

3. Oil & Gas

SELAMINA has worked extensively with oil and gas companies around the world to reduce risk and drive operational efficiency across upstream, midstream and downstream verticals.

Create a scalable, efficient operational framework.

Now more than ever, oil and gas companies must become more operationally efficient in order to withstand fluctuations in oil prices and reduced cash flow. So whether you’re struggling with large-scale onboarding or managing the mechanical integrity of your operations, we can help you maximize productivity without jeopardizing your brand or employees.

Our experienced consultants target specific areas of improvement to help you mitigate risk and improve your operational efficiencies. We partner with you to create an operational framework that assigns the right roles and responsibilities for optimizing asset productivity through improved asset uptime, turnaround efficiency and management/maintenance processes. We also implement the right risk management approach to improve your organizational safety culture, build the proper skills in your people and help them understand why it’s important to make safer, smarter choices.

solutions.

Process Safety Management Consulting: Prevent process-related injuries and incidents before they occur.

Asset Productivity/Maintenance and Reliability: Improve your asset uptime, turnaround times and maintenance processes.

Capital Project Management: Execute capital projects on time and on budget while mitigating project risk.

4.Food & Beverage

Beyond SELAMINA’s institutional expertise in nutrition and health, SELAMINA has worked extensively with leading food companies around the world to help protect their products, employees and consumers.

Protect your employees and your consumers.

Whether your company produces bread, dairy, wine, or anything in between, avoiding product contamination is top of mind, as an incident can have far-reaching implications for both consumer safety and your brand. Furthermore, your operation may be put at risk due to injuries, plant shutdowns and lack of management competencies.

At SELAMINA, we help companies not only optimize food safety, but also improve their bottom line. By implementing global best practices in risk management and safety consulting, we can help your organization transform your safety culture and protect your people and consumers. We achieve long-lasting, sustainable outcomes through our ability to achieve cultural alignment and through our proprietary approach to building capabilities in your workforce. And by optimizing operational efficiency across your supply chain, we unlock hidden value within your organization.

solutions.

Process Safety Management Consulting: Prevent process-related injuries and incidents before they occur.

Workplace Safety Consulting: Discover how educating and informing your employees can reduce incidents and improve your safety culture.

Operations Excellence: From your assets to your contractors, drive productivity and efficiency within your operation to improve profitability.

5. Energy & Utilities

Built on best-in-class methodologies, our solutions help companies protect people and increase efficiencies across various utility sectors including power generation (fossil, nuclear, and sustainable), power transmission and distribution, wastewater and beyond.

Manage complex operations safely and efficiently.

Everyday your business is challenged to do more with less while protecting your employees, the public and the environment. Managing these complexities is challenging amid changing regulations, merger and acquisition activity and increased risk profiles. SELAMINA can help you customize the right operational risk management solutions to manage these complexities.

With the right framework in place, you can manage your risks to create a safer, more productive work environment. Our team of experts help you focus on operational excellence by implementing programs to increase asset effectiveness and manage capital expenditures. We also help improve your culture to increase your efficiencies and mitigate the negative effects of a rapidly changing workforce. With the help of SELAMINA, you can build a workforce that is competent, capable and safe.

Solutions.

Safety and Operational Risk Management: Protect lives, minimize risk, and improve your safety culture with the right operational framework.

Process Safety Management Consulting: Prevent process-related injuries and incidents before they occur.

Operations Excellence: From your assets to your contractors, drive productivity and efficiency within your operation to improve profitability.

Additional Supports that SELAMINA provide:

• Project implementation process improvements
• Project resource development
• Value-Improving Practices (VIPs) and standards
• Readiness-to-Operate (RTO)—enabling a smooth transition and start-up for new or existing operations
• Capital project implementation support through coaching and mentoring
• Project optimization and business integration, drawing on our consulting practices in process safety and operational risk management, construction management, project controls, technology screening, and lean supply chain management
• Building Commissioning, Building Conditions Survey, Building Permit Coordination
• Causation and Liability Assessment
• Claims Management
• Claims/Disputes Mitigation
• Capital Asset Programs
• Computerized Project Accounting
• Contract Documentation Review
• Document Studies
• Facility Security Programs
• Insurance Losses
• Issue Resolution
• Labor Studies
• Litigation Assistance with Document Production, Management and Depositions
• Loss Evaluating
• Loss Prevention
• Market Evaluations
• Mediation
• Owner’s Representation
• Partnering Programs
• Present Expert Testimony for Arbitration, Litigation or Mediation
• Procedure Review
• Project Advisory
• Project Budget Preparation
• Project Guideline Evaluations
• Project Labor Agreements
• Project Takeover Evaluation
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control
• Recovery Programs
• Risk Management
• Site Development Assistance
• State Licensing Coordination
• Surety Claims Consulting
• Team Performance

• Review
• Troubleshooting Services
• Turnaround Project Consulting

We believe that the success of infrastructure projects and programs, whatever their size, depends on the effective collaboration of all those involved to ensure the delivery of the right outcomes, on time and on budget.

From understanding the requirement, developing solution concepts, and delivering initial economic and feasibility studies to defining and implementing engineering design, construction, commissioning, handover, and operation, we support our clients at every step.

Infrastructure and built environment projects are increasingly complex, and expectations from government, industry, and society are rising. Projects and programs must be delivered with ever-increasing efficiency in both time and money, with enhanced sustainability, and with zero tolerance for unsafe and unhealthy practice.

Successful delivery depends on understanding and overcoming challenges around governance, risk, scope control, stakeholder engagement, and the capability of the team. Our project and program managers have the leadership and experience to address these challenges in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. We aim to exceed our clients' expectations.

We approach all assignments without preconceptions, developing a detailed understanding of the requirement for the proposed project or program, how it meets your business needs, and how it will deliver benefits. Our background as a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting company means we can draw on best practices from across the sector in delivering clients’ required outcomes.