The Process Equipment and Controls team is geared towards project success for all our clients.
Plant operations managers, engineering firms, and GC project managers across the Southeast bring their mechanical scope to PEC when they need a full-service industrial mechanical contractor that can plan a capital project, build it, and keep it running afterward. Our 70,000 square foot facility in Covington, GA carries the welders, pipefitters, millwrights, electricians, controls engineers, and project managers who handle every phase of an industrial mechanical project under one roof.
That single-source approach trims handoffs, shortens schedules, and removes the finger pointing that slows multi-vendor industrial maintenance and construction work. Whether the scope is a new process piping run, a full production line install, an emergency repair on a plant down at 3 a.m., or an ongoing preventive maintenance program, the same PEC team scopes it, executes it, and stays through start-up.
Most mechanical contractors handle one or two scopes well, then sub out the rest. PEC is built differently. The five capability areas below all live in the same shop, with the same project management overhead, so the customer is not stitching together vendors for a single project.
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Carbon steel, stainless steel, copper, and specialty alloy piping for chilled water, steam, process fluids, sanitary systems, and utility distribution. PEC’s process piping team carries the welders, fitters, and detailers to handle scope from a single piping tie-in to a full plant utility run. Welds run to ASME B31 standards where the project specifications call for them.
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New plant builds, line installations, mechanical equipment setting, and process retrofits. Mechanical construction work brings together the structural, piping, equipment, and rigging scope into one coordinated build. Often paired with PEC’s custom metal fabrication, structural steel, and electrical and controls divisions for full turnkey delivery on a single project.
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Preventive maintenance programs, predictive maintenance using condition monitoring tools like vibration analysis and infrared thermography, emergency repairs on plants that cannot wait, and the day-to-day equipment care that keeps production lines running. PEC’s industrial maintenance practice scales from one-line support to facility-wide programs, and tailored programs combine elements of each approach.
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Setting new production equipment, relocating existing lines, dismantling old equipment, and aligning the work post-set so the line runs to spec. Equipment installation and relocation typically combines PEC’s mechanical, millwright and rigging, and electrical scope on a single project. For larger machinery moves, the same teams handle heavy equipment movers work, including plant relocations and full facility moves.
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For customers who want a single accountable contractor across all the trade scope on a project, PEC’s turnkey industrial services model packages the mechanical, electrical, controls, structural, and field execution work under one project manager, one schedule, and one delivery date.
Most industrial mechanical contractors sub out the electrical and controls work. PEC self-performs all three under the same project management. That structural difference is what enables PEC to act as a true line builder: the same team that sets the equipment also runs the conduit, programs the PLCs, and commissions the cell.
For a plant operations manager scoping a new line, that consolidation means fewer subcontractor packages to evaluate, fewer schedules to align, and fewer vendors juggling their own punch lists during start-up. For a GC PM, it means a single industrial mechanical contractor that can carry the entire mechanical, electrical, and controls scope on a single project.
PEC’s electrical and controls and automation and robotics divisions sit in the same building as the mechanical crews. PEC’s project management team keeps the schedule, the coordination, and the customer-facing communication tight so trade interfaces stay clean.
Not every plant needs the same maintenance program. PEC builds programs in three main shapes, often combining elements of each:
The right mix depends on the equipment, the production schedule, and the cost of downtime. PEC starts by understanding what is running today and where the pain points are, then builds a program that fits how the plant actually operates.
PEC’s industrial mechanical contractor work covers a wide range of industries including but not limited to:
Each industry has its own documentation, safety, and execution standards. The benefit of working with PEC is that those nuances stay with the same project team from quote through delivery.
PEC’s project scope ranges from small emergency repairs to multi-million dollar capital installs. A typical month at the Covington shop might include emergency repair work on plants where critical equipment has gone down, smaller mechanical projects covering single equipment installs or piping tie-ins, mid-size projects covering new line installs and larger piping packages, and large capital projects covering full plant builds or turnkey mechanical and electrical scope.
The same shop, the same project management overhead, and the same trade crews handle work at every scale. What changes from project to project is the planning depth, the schedule, and the number of crews PEC assigns. The AWS-certified weld standards, the safety practices, and the execution discipline do not change with project size.
PEC takes mechanical scope seriously because the rest of your plant depends on it. Whether you are looking for a process piping contractor for a food and beverage line, an industrial maintenance partner for a year-round preventive program, an emergency repair crew for a Friday-night chiller failure, or a full mechanical-and-controls integrator for your next data center expansion, we are ready to walk the site this week.
Tell us where you stand. Bid in hand and a clean spec? We will turn around a capability review with the relevant case anchors. Plant down right now and need crews mobilized? Contact us today and we will route you to the right PM. We work the way you work.
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Whether you’re coordinating your next project or proactively planning your plant maintenance, there’s no better time than right now to contact us.