- March 31, 2023
- gerard.lyons
About Keece Maintenance
A leading provider of reactive, routine and programmed upgrade electrician and licensed trades people throughout Australia and New Zealand. Supporting some of Australia’s largest B2B and B2C trade groups Keece Group provide a diverse range services including; reactive services, onsite tradesman and project quoted works. contract services, supporting and maintaining their electrical and building infrastructure.
Get in Contact todayHere are 8 reasons your organisation might consider a varied approach….
Onsite Maintenance Technician(s) are critical to keeping your property and equipment infrastructure operating effectively. They are directly responsible for the safe coordination, execution and reporting of all reactive and preventative maintenance tasks across your buildings, systems and operating assets.
However, within retail chains, commercial, residential care, and distribution organisations, managing maintenance is not core business, and can rapidly become a time vacuum and headache for multiple members of the senior team diverting precious time and resources from their work role and ultimately a disruption to your business.
If some of list below rings true for your organisation, it might be time to investigate an alternative to “just employing another maintenance technician”. With Keece Onsite you will still have a full-time onsite technician of your own, but with the backup, knowledge and collective experience of an entire business whose expertise is property, asset, compliance and maintenance.
1. Consistency Of Service
Holidays, sick leave, after hours, resignations all create ongoing and difficult periods where maintenance is unavailable. And they always happen at the most inconvenient time. Keece Onsite will ensure you always have a technician onsite, 24/7/365 without delay.
2. Building Compliance Obligations
The time commitment and onus legal requirements of coordinating building and asset compliance standards, through inspections and testing is rapidly becoming a role in it’s own. Keece Onsite can provide industry and government building and asset guidance and structure a program across your assets and property infrastructure. To meet your legal obligations, the following routine services are likely to be your minimum requirements and can be completed by KeeceOnsite amongst normal operations: • Equipment Test and Tag • Exit and Emergency Lighting • Switchboards, RCDs and thermal inspections • Industrial 3 phase motors • Generators, battery, solar and equipment • Lifts, loading docks etcAdditionally, Keece Onsite can coordinate and manage additional building and compliance obligations involving: • Fire (equipment, egress, sprinklers, warning systems & extinguishes) • Mechanical (filters, condensers, thermostats, fans etc) • Hydronic (toilets, hot water, gas detection, water penetration etc)
4. Simplicity Of Engagement
Provide your team a single number to call or email, and know that the task will be logged, triaged, and tracked through to completion. Keece Onsite can take responsibility for your entire building and asset infrastructure, minimising downtime, reducing risk, and ensuring literally every maintenance task across your business is completed safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively.
3. Transference Of Legal Liability
The health and safety protocols & practices of Keece Onsite are an intrinsic function of the service. Inherent in this, is the reduction in risk and legal exposure for all works completed by your onsite maintenance technicians when partnered with Keece Onsite. This risk transference encompasses:• all completed works, ensuring they are not defective and any potential harm caused from such works • potential injury and work cover claims from your directly employed maintenance technician • injury or incident to other people in the vicinity during the period of work being completed
5. Avoided Cost
Keece Onsite comes for a single monthly invoice amount. No surprises.
Additional to the huge time savings nominated above, additional avoided cost includes:Tools, vehicle, and phone
Training and ongoing compliance obligations
Sick leave and holiday loadings
Engagement of external specialised contractors (often)
Asset lifecycle and repair and replacement costs (upon preventative programs implemented)
6. Expertise At Your Disposal
Keece Onsite is typically an electrician onsite. In addition to your general maintenance tasks, they are licensed and competent to complete many of the essential building compliance tasks needed to keep your organisation safe and compliant. Keece Onsite can provide insight and peace of mind that all building and maintenance tasks are completed to strict and compliant safety procedures – eliminating cowboy mentalities putting your buildings and assets at risk. In addition to general maintenance Keece Onsite have the ability to complete more specialist tasks including:CCTV installations and maintenance. Audio visual installations and maintenance. Lighting and signage installation and maintenance. Security system and access control system installations and maintenance.
7. Keep Your Team Focused
Allow your team to focus their time and efforts on core business. Finance, HR, Operations, Admin, and IT often all need to get involved when it comes to onsite maintenance. Even more so as your business grows and scales.With Keece Onsite, personnel issues, payroll, building and asset compliance, health and safety of the technicians, asset lifecycle management, and more are managed by a team that is experts in the field. Your management team can concentrate on the core activities that drive your business.
8. Flexibility
Typically, Keece Onsite provides an onsite technician for a standard 5 days a week with on-call outside normal business hours. However, our strength is in customising a solution to our customer's specific needs such as:24/7/365 onsite technician. Unique skills or training requirements to cover specific assets or work environments. Specialist trades as required for growth or periods of programmed upgrades. Full facilities maintenance and help desk function. Health and safety and compliance auditing. Branding/uniform. Purchasing methodology
There are many advantages to having a Keece On site. Contact us today for more details and real examples of how this service works in practice.