Operational Readiness
Set up for success
Projects can look great on paper, but success is in diligent planning and perfect execution. We help our clients meet and then exceed the economic goals of mining projects as they transition from development, through ramp-up, to steady-state production.
We ensure that the necessary alignment, behaviours, management routines, and processes are embedded at all levels of the organisation during the readiness phase, leading to an uneventful transition to safe and sustainable production that meets the expectations of investors and communities.
Operational Transformation
Create Step-Change
Ambitious goals such as doubling a mine’s EBITDA, changing mining methods, or re-sizing an operation as it approaches end-of-life require a step-change in operations philosophy and, often, organisational structure.
With our client’s vision of the future state in hand, and a baseline model built on today’s operation, we lay out the path for them to follow and guide them throughout the journey.
Requisite organisation design and change management are critical to the success of a major transformation, together with effective project management and contractor management.
Operational Excellence
Stabilise and Elevate
Volatile production schedules and variability in performance against plan can show opportunities exist for bottom-line improvement throughout planning, scheduling and execution.
We take a systems and behaviours approach to pinpoint and quantify those opportunities, stabilising any deterioration at that moment, after which we design and implement the improvement according to the desired benchmark.
A streamlined and fully adopted Operating Model supports continued and incremental improvement beyond the new performance baseline.