

Maintenance Project Management
OUR EXPERTISE
Maintain your assets. Protect your operations.
Maintain your assets. Protect your operations.
Maintenance projects often need to be completed within limited intervention windows, leaving little room for delays or unexpected issues. In these environments, thorough work preparation, sequencing, and stakeholder coordination are essential to meeting shutdown schedules.
Merkur supports industrial and mining companies in planning and executing asset sustainment projects. Our teams coordinate major shutdowns, equipment replacements, and modernization work by bringing together expertise in mechanical and electrical engineering, supplier management, and complex program management.
This structured approach helps secure project execution, minimize operational disruptions, and sustainably improve equipment reliability.
- Plan and coordinate major shutdowns
- Define project scope, schedule, and budget
- Coordinate internal teams, contractors, and suppliers
- Monitor costs, schedules, risks, and quality
- Replace and modernize production equipment
- Manage complex maintenance programs
- Plan and prepare commissioning and return to operations
- Improve equipment and facility reliability to reduce unplanned downtime
Tools
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling
Risk register and mitigation plans
Change and variance management
Real-time information management and sharing
Cost, schedule, and progress dashboards
Installation and commissioning plans
Criticality analysis and FMEA/FMECA


Merkur brings together project management, engineering, and operations to help manufacturers and mining companies plan and execute maintenance projects, minimize operational risks, and ensure a safe, controlled return to service while protecting asset reliability and availability.
Integrated end-to-end manufacturing management for your projects
We coordinate your manufacturing projects with precision, ensuring alignment among stakeholders, cost control, and adherence to schedules and operational objectives.
Experts mobilized for your challenges
Thanks to the breadth of their experience, our specialists quickly identify your issues and propose solutions tailored to your environment. Our collaborative approach enables smooth integration with your teams and effective communication among all contributors.
A structured process, a proven solution
Each project is planned into clear phases and tasks to ensure accurate monitoring, controlled execution, and measurable results.
PROJECTS
Development of Bus Handling Equipment
Transportation
One of our customers, a manufacturer of passenger buses and motor homes, decided to replace the ferries in its passenger bus assembly plant.

Masonite doubles its factory production capacity and reduces delivery time by 30%
Manufacturing
Lemieux Doors (now the property of Masonite) specializes in the manufacture of wooden doors. After many years of strong growth, the company found itself dealing with a new industry trend: customization.

ARTICLES
4D at your Expansion Projects’ Service
You’re ready to expand or redesign your plant to support future growth, but you’re wondering how to go about it efficiently? Would you like to mobilize your teams around this strategic project for your company? Are you wondering about the right tools to support your communication during this change with tools that confirm your production strategy?

Strategies to Optimize Communication and Collaboration in Your Operations
In your daily operations, you may be responsible for coordinating production activities and ensuring that your colleagues work well together to transform strategic objectives into concrete actions.

How your Employees Contribute to the Success of an Operational Excellence Mandate with Merkur
Operational excellence is an essential strategic lever for companies seeking continuous improvement. Regardless of the technical complexity of mandates, their success depends above all on the active involvement of employees at every stage.
