Define scope and readiness
Define outage scope, work packages, and readiness requirements.
Outage Planning & Execution Support
Plan each outage with the operating future in view.
Sand Hill optimizes planning and scheduling for individual outages, integrating work scope, dependencies, resources and readiness requirements to improve control of downtime, cost and execution risk. An engagement can address a specific planning or scheduling need or extend through preparation, execution and return to operation.
Longer-term engagements extend that value across successive outages and the facility’s capital program. As our understanding of the facility deepens, we help leadership evaluate which work should occur in each outage, how investment and execution decisions affect future requirements, and what preparation must begin well before the planned downtime.
Outage Planning & Execution SupportWhen to engage Sand Hill
- A shutdown combines several projects and maintenance work.
- Shared equipment, work areas, or operating systems constrain execution.
- Your team needs additional capability to develop the outage plan, assess readiness or manage execution through return to operation.
- Your organization needs a coordinated, multi-year view of outage scope, capital investment and the preparation required between outages.
What we do
Plan resources and access
Assess competing demands for contractor resources, materials, work areas, shared equipment and shift coverage. Resolve sequencing and access conflicts with the responsible teams, and incorporate the agreed arrangements into the outage plan.
Integrate the outage plan
Develop integrated outage logic and track readiness constraints.
Manage execution and start-up readiness
Assess progress, resolve execution conflicts and revise the remaining plan as constraints and readiness change. Coordinate turnover and start-up around the requirements for a controlled return to operation.
Develop the longer-term outage and capital plan
Assess how maintenance requirements, capital initiatives, operating priorities and execution capacity influence scope and timing across successive outages. Identify the development, procurement, information and readiness requirements that must be addressed before each execution window.
What you receive
Readiness dashboard
Visibility into the prerequisites for each planned work package.
Integrated outage schedule
The sequence of work within physical and operating constraints.
Constraint & action register
A record of unresolved requirements and constraints, with assigned actions, responsible parties, required resolution dates and implications for outage execution and start-up readiness.
Execution reporting
Analysis of progress, remaining work and forecast completion, communicated through intuitive reporting graphics and visual explanations of execution complexity. The reporting shows how dependencies, shared resources, constraints and readiness requirements interact, helping leadership understand the implications of emerging issues and the decisions or actions required for a controlled return to operation.
Multi-year outage and capital roadmap
A sequenced view of proposed work and capital initiatives across planned outages, with the dependencies, preparation requirements and decisions affecting execution readiness.
A few useful questions.
Can you support both planning and execution?
The engagement can cover preparation, readiness reviews, execution coordination, and return to operation. We define the staffing, coverage, and specific responsibilities with the facility.
Who owns operational and safety decisions?
The facility’s designated authorities retain their assigned responsibilities. Sand Hill’s coordination and support roles are documented so authority, communication, and escalation remain clear.
Specific deliverables, authority, staffing and acceptance requirements are established in the engagement scope.
EXPERIENCE IN PRACTICE
Explore All Experience See the contribution.
RecoveryWithin 1%of Sand Hill’s initial cost re-estimate
Bringing 19 project scopes into one coordinated program
Explore this Experience CapabilityCost reductions and corrected chargesThrough improved mobilization and contract and invoice assessmentImproving outage planning and contractor cost control
Explore this ExperienceWhat are you working toward?
Start with your objective and the situation in front of you.