Holdfast Training Services Trial Blog

Fredon our Mechanical Sub-contractor have become that Spr which your OC always warns you about that will take up 90% of your time because they are the problem child, Fredon is it!! They have been putting up pipe in the corridor now for over 8 weeks and have achieved about 50 to 60 metres! It has become increasingly contractual and I have spent a lot of my time making a case file against them as they have the audacity to send through delay notices. We now have a workshop with them on a weekly basis, which is micromanaging them and to be honest we would be better off managing them ourselves.

But we have made progress!! We had to coach them through the welding process to ensure that they did sample welds, the welders where qualified, we inspected the welds and ensured they documented all the welds. We then had to ensure they painted the pipe as they were all rusty, now we are lagging the pipe and the Client (State) are not happy which will be todays work. We have completed everything to specification and closely monitored it so we could avoid this.

On a positive note I have been to multiple pump Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and Mark thank you the pump knowledge is invaluable, I even sound like I have some idea what I am talking about!! We have also installed our first switch board to the Northern Substation which comes in two parts for shipping which will be bolted together today. I also attended the FAT for that and again John the electrical knowledge was invaluable.

Overall a lot of fire fighting and less of what we should be doing but all great experience learning something new everyday.