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Port Hedland · Western Australia

We embed in your operation and solve the problems that matter.

A specialist project, engineering, analysis & direction firm deployed inside your team, multiplying your efforts to move the operation forward every day.

Project management Engineering Operational intelligence Direction

Who we are

A specialist firm built for the work that doesn't fit a template.

We bring four pillars together: project delivery, engineering, data analysis and direction, and deploy them inside your team, on your systems, under your governance.

We take on the problems that are hardest to scope and most expensive to get wrong, and we stay accountable for progress alongside your team, day after day, until the result holds.

More about PPS

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Project showcase, with PPS founder on site

What we do

Four pillars, one embedded team.

Most firms give you one of these. The value is in running all four together, close to the work, accountable for the outcome.

Project Management

Embedded leadership for brownfield, shutdown and campaign scopes, run inside your governance from concept and business case through to close-out.

  • Brownfield & shutdown delivery
  • Business case & optioneering
  • Management of change
  • Stakeholder & regulator alignment

Engineering

Multidiscipline engineering built to work in the field, not just on paper, from a sketch on the deck to a construction-ready design, across seven disciplines.

  • Concept, drafting & 3D design
  • Structural & mechanical upgrades
  • 3D laser scanning
  • Corrosion & materials

Data & Operational Intelligence

We turn the data your assets and systems already produce into defensible evidence behind the objective you're driving toward, with rigorous analysis and clear visuals.

  • Constraint first, then the data
  • Existing data into a defensible picture
  • Quantify the opportunity to prioritise
  • Analysis that backs a decision

Direction

Strategy, grounded in the work. Before delivery or analysis even starts, the hard part is often knowing which question to ask. We work alongside your team to frame the real problem, weigh the options against operational reality, and commit to a direction, so the project, engineering and analysis all pull toward something that actually moves the operation.

  • Frame the real problem before committing resources
  • Weigh options against operational reality
  • Commit to a clear, defensible direction
  • Point delivery, engineering and analysis at what matters

By the numbers

$2.6M
Campaign savings delivered on a single rolling-stock program
14,000
Working-at-height hours engineered out of the workface
100,000s
Telemetry records reconstructed into fleet decisions
150%
Of the client's throughput target, sustained

How we work

Embedded from day one. Accountable every day after.

We don't hand over a report and leave. We mobilise into your team, work your systems and processes, and own the outcome alongside your team until it's delivered, and until it sticks.

01

Embedded specialist leadership

We integrate directly into your team and governance and contribute from day one, with no long mobilisation or learning curve on your time.

02

End-to-end delivery

From scoping and design through execution, commissioning and handover, one accountable team across the whole scope, not a relay of hand-offs.

03

Sustained partnership

We stay for the operational life of the work, tuning, supporting and finding the next increment of value as conditions change.

A process plant running through the night shiftLive operating environment

Built for live operations

Brownfield sites don't stop for a project.

Everything we do is designed to be delivered safely around a running operation, inside your permits, your standards and your shutdown windows. That field-first discipline is why our people can be useful from the first shift, and why the work holds up once we've gone.

Where we operate

Rooted in the Pilbara. Delivering across WA.

From a head office in Port Hedland and a presence in Perth, we deliver into remote, high-demand environments, and we know the logistics, access and integration challenges that come with them.

Head Office
Port Hedland, WA
Perth Office
Perth, WA
Aerial view across Port Hedland operations, rail sidings, port and the ocean beyondPort Hedland, WA

Trusted on tier-one operations

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Let's talk

Have a problem that doesn't fit a template?

Tell us the challenge. We'll talk through embedding the right people, project, engineering and data, directly into your operation.