The plant, people and engineering behind the contract
- Capability groups
- 6
- Documented items
- 92
- Core disciplines
- 4
A note on how this page is written. Premier holds comprehensive plant, machinery and manpower, and its documentation describes some of that inventory as tentative and project-dependent. Rather than publish counts that could not be verified line by line, this page sets out the capability itself — the disciplines employed, the ranges the plant can work to, and the trades held under licence. Confirm current availability of any specific item with Premier at enquiry stage.
Engineering Team
Multi-disciplinary engineering across mechanical, electrical, civil and control & instrumentation — the four disciplines a power or process plant cannot be maintained without.
Disciplines
- Mechanical engineers
- Electrical engineers
- Civil engineers
- C&I engineers and technicians
- Facility managers and technical managers
- Draftsmen for fabrication and structural detailing
Field supervision
- Site engineers and supervisors per discipline
- Housekeeping supervisors
- Round-the-clock management cover on site
- Skilled and unskilled labour deployment under registered licence
Technical Manpower
Skilled trades and technical manpower deployable to client sites, including outsourced technical manpower supplied to OEMs and to facility operations.
Certified trades
- I.B.R. welders and coded welders
- Fitters and millwright fitters
- Fabricators
- Riggers
- Electricians
Skilled trades
- Turners, masons, plumbers and painters
- C&I technicians
- Gardeners and horticulture staff
- Skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled housekeeping personnel
Licences held
- Registered Labour Licence for skilled and unskilled labour
- Electrical Licence for electrical works and maintenance
Testing Equipment
An instrument laboratory maintained for electrical, control and instrumentation work, plus associate agencies for radiographic and surface preparation scopes.
Electrical testing
- Meggers — 500 V, 5 kV and 10 kV ranges
- Primary injection kit up to 2000 A; CT testing kit
- HV Tan Delta kit; high-voltage DC test set for 6.6 kV cables
- Relay testing kit with phase angle measurement
- Circuit breaker timing and contact resistance measurement kits
- Automatic TTR kit and transformer winding resistance kit
- Earth resistance testers and digital earth clamp meters
- Online portable partial discharge tester for switchboards
- Cable fault locator and DC earth fault locator
- Thermovision cameras and non-contact thermometers
C&I calibration
- Dead weight tester to 300 kg/cm²
- Portable pressure calibrators −1 to 25 bar; low-pressure calibration pumps
- Digital master pressure gauges — ±10,000 mmWC and 0–100 bar
- Temperature baths, digital temperature indicators and scanners to 500 °C
- Universal calibrators with voltage and current source and loop checking
- Table-mounted mV, mA, thermocouple/RTD calibrators
- Decade resistance boxes and source calibrators
- HART communicators and ultrasonic flow meters
Mechanical measurement
- Outside, inside and depth micrometers
- Dial bore gauges and dial gauges
- Vernier calipers — digital, analog, barrel and height gauges
- Digital tachometer 0.5 to 20,000 RPM
- Vibration monitoring and analysers
Associate agency scopes
- Radiography
- Stress relieving
- Sand blasting and painting
- Non-destructive testing — RT, HT and DP after hot work
Tools & Tackles
Fabrication, lifting and site tooling held for heavy fabrication and erection scopes, including IBR pipe work.
Plate & pipe fabrication
- Plate bending machines — 2000 mm × 12 mm, 2000 mm × 16 mm, 4000 mm × 20 mm
- Hydraulic pipe bender to 50 mm NB
- Pug cutting machines; cutting sets
- Pedestal and magnetic drill machines
- Hydraulic test pump to 150 kg/cm² (g), reciprocating triple cylinder
Welding plant
- Welding transformers 400 A
- Rectifier sets 400 A and 600 A
- MIG welding sets
- Welding cable and accessories, cutting sets and welding accessories
Lifting & rigging
- Hydraulic jacks 50 T and 100 T; screw jacks 20 T
- Chain pulleys and mechanical winches — 5 T and 10 T
- Electric winch 10 T; hook chucks 5 MT
- Centring material and spanner sets
Site electrics & safety
- Main incoming power panels with cables and DC generator sets
- Electric portable tools — angle grinders, wheel and flexible grinders, pistol drills, chamfering machine
- ARC protective suits for isolation and energisation
- Safety appliances — helmets, safety belts and hand gloves
- Discharge rods and high-voltage detectors for live-line work
Heavy Machinery
Earthmoving, concreting and handling machinery for civil and site execution scopes, mobilised per project.
Earthmoving
- Pay loaders and JCB excavators
- Drillers
- Road rollers
- Tippers and water tankers
Concreting
- Batching plants
- Transit mixers
- Concrete mixers
Handling
- Cranes and hydra
- Lathe machines
- Chain pulleys and winches
Housekeeping fleet
- Walk-behind auto scrubber driers
- Manual powered sweepers
- Wet and dry vacuum cleaners — 32 L and 78 L steel body
- Trolley-mounted high-pressure water jets
Site Execution Capability
Documented civil and mechanical execution capability on live industrial sites, from substation assembly to boiler and turbine erection.
Substation & transmission
- Complete assembling, erection, fabrication, rigging, earthing, excavation and backfilling of substations
- Erection of transmission line towers
- 220 kV switchyard extension and earth mat work
- Electrification, automation and control systems
Plant erection
- Construction and erection of boiler, turbine, bunker and railway tracks at any earthen strata
- Erection of towers, chemical vessels, large storage tanks and pressure vessels
- C.W. piping to I.D. 2.6 m; high-pressure pipeline in IBR and non-IBR categories
- Conveyor structures, gantries, walkways and conveyor laying
Heavy civil
- Dams, canals, chimneys and cooling towers
- Plant buildings, workshop buildings and large sheds
- Roads, drains, cable and pipe racks
- All types of land development including soling and compaction
Capability is only useful if it mobilises
Premier's engineers, trades, laboratory instruments and machinery are held and maintained in-house. That is what makes a shutdown window achievable and an annual maintenance contract sustainable — mobilisation does not wait on hired equipment or subcontracted trades.
Tell us what needs to be on site, and when.
Share the scope and the window. Premier will respond with the disciplines, manpower and machinery it would commit.
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