Practice 01 · Industrial & Capital Projects

We steer industrial projects from concept to commissioning.

On industrial capital projects, Magister Partners acts as independent owner's engineer and interim project manager. We sit on the owner's side of the table and carry the project across its full life cycle — with senior engineering judgement, rigorous cost and schedule control, and discretion.

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Sectors Chemicals & process· Oil & gas· Pulp & paper· Energy & water· Heavy industry & logistics
What we do

The full arc of a project — under one hand.

01

Scoping & framing

Defining the mandate, constraints, budget and decision framework before capital is committed.

02

Site search & feasibility

Sourcing and screening land and buildings; early due diligence to eliminate problem sites fast.

03

Permitting & regulatory

Mapping the permit path — environmental, air, water, safety — and its critical timeline.

04

Detailed engineering

Management and independent review of detailed design against scope, cost and schedule.

05

Tendering & procurement

Structuring and running competitive bids for comparable offers and clean contract allocation.

06

Construction supervision

Owner-side oversight of contractors, quality, HSE and progress through to completion.

07

Cost & financial control

Budget, commitments, change orders and cash — one reliable view of the numbers.

08

Commissioning & handover

Assistance through start-up, acceptance and the punch list to a clean reception.

Experience

Fifteen years of industrial projects, on four continents.

Selected mandates — delivered in-house for industrial owners and in senior operations roles, from fast-track chemical plants to regulated oil & gas sites. Client names are held in confidence; the work speaks for the method.

South America

Greenfield chemical production sites

Several new plants built from the ground up — owner-side oversight of design, contractors, foundation non-conformance and permitting.

Owner's engineer
Western Europe

Major chemical-plant programme

Large capital programme on a live production platform — portfolio, schedule and cost control across parallel projects, from feasibility to start-up.

Portfolio & cost control
Middle East

Enhanced-oil-recovery pilot plant

EPC and operation of a multi-process O&G plant — construction management through commissioning, start-up and operator handover.

Construction & commissioning
South Asia

Oil & gas plant — civil works & tendering

RFQ structuring, contractor selection and procurement governance for a new industrial facility on an aggressive schedule.

Procurement & tendering
North America

Confidential industrial site search

Land and building search across two industrial regions; early environmental due diligence and permitting-path screening to kill problem sites fast.

Advisory & site selection
Middle East

Polymer injection facilities — civil tendering

Civil tendering for three polymer injection facilities, structuring and running the bid process across a portfolio of contracts.

Tendering & contracts

Experience built in the field and at portfolio level — in senior roles within a global specialty-chemicals and water-treatment group, and previously on regulated oil & gas and nuclear sites. Capital projects delivered from equipment upgrades in operating plants through to greenfield factories, up to several hundred million euros in value.

Confidential mandates are described by sector and region only. References available on request, at the appropriate stage.

The method, applied here

On an industrial project the pace is set by concrete, permits and long-lead equipment. The competence map runs from process and civil design through commissioning and operator training, and the gaps have to be closed months before they bite. That is the work: seeing them early enough to matter.

See the four-step method

Contact

Tell us about your project.

jmoulin@magisterpartners.com

Jérémy Moulin · Founder & Managing Partner · Switzerland · worldwide

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