Project Management

There are eight significant benefits to choosing an industrial services partner with proven and professional project management expertise:

• One point of contact – Heavy-lifting projects involve numerous personnel and may also require specialist third parties’ input for more complex jobs. A project manager takes ultimate responsibility and provides a single point of contact from the outset.
• Planning – Project management expertise is vital during the planning stage, helping to coordinate all parties, understand all costs, identify risks and agree on the best way forward. This is crucial to the success of any project.
• Meeting customers’ needs – Operational control is a crucial requirement for a project manager, and it’s needed at every stage. Ensuring an assignment is delivered to mission-critical deadlines, on budget, and safely requires excellent planning and expediting skills. This ensures that all resources, equipment, and personnel are available at the right time and on-task.
• Comprehensive programme management – When a complex heavy-lifting project is part of a broader programme of change, such as an asset realisation or factory relocation project – project management expertise helps to ensure all activities are coordinated carefully and fit with broader operational priorities.
• A consistent and proven approach – Proven project management expertise creates consistency and reliability for clients. This ensures that multiple projects are handled in the same way, capitalising on past learnings, calling on best practices and providing a tenacious and professional approach.
• Cost and time efficient – For all mission-critical projects – for example, undertaking a factory relocation across the country – it’s essential that costs and timescales are agreed upon upfront. Professional project management helps to keep these criteria on track and ensures any changes to deliverables are known and addressed quickly.
• Paper trail and documentation – From method statements to risk assessments, paperwork is essential to ensure all machinery moves have the necessary compliance in place and that all planning and preparation tasks have been completed thoroughly.
• Commitment to safety – An experienced project manager will recognise how business-critical it is to ensure safe working practices. As such, they are instrumental in ensuring projects meet all HSEQ priorities.

At AIS Vanguard, we have delivered thousands of complex lift and shift projects for businesses in all sectors and have amassed a wealth of knowledge.

With this proven track record to call on, as well as our fleet of lifting equipment and a highly trained team, we apply best practices at all times and take a meticulous approach to all parts of project delivery.

Professional project management is at the heart of how we work. We ensure that all parties are informed, equipped and safe throughout so that deadlines are always achieved.

We can guarantee excellent and professional project management thanks to:

• Commitment to clear communication – From contract award to invoice, AIS Vanguard is open, accessible and communicative at every stage.
• A single point of contact – We assign all projects a dedicated project manager to streamline communication and provide one single point of contact for all matters. The project manager is responsible for providing all updates and managing the project from start to finish. This includes interpreting the brief, delivering planning works and documentation, mobilising the team and ensuring efficient execution on site.
• Clear project deliverables – We ensure that project deliverables and KPIs are agreed upon at the project’s outset to keep parties focused and on-task.
• An established chain of command and complete operational control at all times – Our in-house project management expertise ensures that we keep a high level of operational control so customers can be confident of a smooth, efficient service with no unexpected delays or hidden costs.
• Clear paper trail – AIS’s project managers ensure that all appropriate documentation is in place for every project. This includes cost schedules, risk assessments, method statements, critical paths, and details of compliance with AIS Vanguard protocols and any local regulations.
• Dedication to health & safety procedures at all levels of the business – AIS Vanguard has an impeccable safety record and holds several important safety accreditations, including ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001, to ensure best practice at all times. We are also RoSPA and British Safety Council members and hold Safe Contractor SSIP, Safe Contractor Safe PQQ and Constructionline Gold accreditations, among others.
• Guaranteed professional, sensitive, courteous approach at all times.
• Well-resourced and experienced in-house teams – AIS Vanguard has its own machinery-moving equipment and vehicles fleet, a highly skilled in-house team of multi-skilled personnel and eight locations across the UK.
• Customer care – Customer care is central to how AIS Vanguard works.  The project manager has full ownership of the project, while our customer service team ensures all contact is logged and actioned for full transparency and accountability.

Contact us to see how our professional project management expertise could benefit your next project.