When a significant number of reliability employees at a single company retire in a short period, it impacts operations by creating workforce gaps and depleting institutional knowledge. Consequences often include:
- Knowledge Drain: Long-term employees hold a wealth of experience, historical knowledge, and industry-specific insights that are difficult to replace.
- Shortage of Critical Skills: Retirees may have specialized skills that younger or newer employees have not yet developed.
- Difficulty in Finding Replacements: Finding qualified replacements with similar experience levels can be challenging and costly.
- Productivity Drops: The transition period following a large retirement wave can result in productivity drops, particularly if replacements are not yet hired or trained.
- Costly Recruitment: Hiring replacements for a large group of retirees can be costly and time-consuming, especially for roles that require significant experience or technical expertise.
- Extended Training Periods: It may take time to train new employees or upskill existing employees to match the productivity levels of retirees.
Instead, before replacing retiring reliability employees, consider contracting these services through a highly experienced oil analysis provider, such as Eurofins TestOil, that offers field services. Here are key advantages.
- Quick Replacement: Consultants can be brought in quickly to fill gaps left by retirees, ensuring continuity of operations without the delays that often come with hiring and training new employees.
- Unbiased Problem-Solving: Since consultants are external to the company, they bring a fresh, objective viewpoint. They can help assess processes, identify inefficiencies, and provide innovative solutions.
- No Onboarding Process: With consultants, companies avoid the complexities of employment contracts, benefits administration, and other HR-related tasks associated with employees.
- Specialized Knowledge: Eurofins TestOil Field Services consultants bring highly specialized skills along with industry-specific expertise that may no longer be available in house and can be difficult to find in new hires. They have a broad range of experience from working with multiple clients, giving them a wider perspective on how to address various challenges. In short, the Eurofins TestOil Field Services team provides expert guidance from the moment they are engaged.
About Eurofins TestOil Onsite Field Services
Eurofins TestOil Field Services is a team of STLE CLS Certified program managers who have backgrounds in mechanical and reliability maintenance. Our Field Services team has over 40 years of combined oil analysis experience. Field Services include:
- Fluid sample collection
- Program Audits and Consultations
- Program set-up
- Work order creation
- Acoustic Imaging Leak Detection and Monitoring
- Vibration Analysis
With over 30 years in the oil and fuel analysis industry, Eurofins TestOil is a widely acknowledged leader. For more information on working with Eurofins TestOil for field services, oil analysis and training visit www.testoil.com. Contact: 216-251-2510; sales@testoil.com.
About Eurofins TestOil
With more than 30 years of experience in the oil analysis industry, Eurofins TestOil focuses exclusively on assisting industrial facilities with reducing maintenance costs and avoiding unexpected downtime through oil and fuel analysis program implementation. As industry experts in diagnosing oil-related issues in equipment such as turbines, hydraulics, gearboxes, pumps, compressors and diesel generators, Eurofins TestOil provides customers with same-day turnaround on routine oil analysis testing. For more information on partnering with Eurofins TestOil on oil analysis programs or training opportunities visit https://testoil.com. Contact: Al Yates 216-251-2510; sales@testoil.com.
About Eurofins – the global leader in bio-analysis
Eurofins is Testing for Life. Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing, and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience Contract Research services. Eurofins is also a market leader in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in BioPharma Contract Development and Manufacturing. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
With over 61,000 staff across a network of 940 laboratories in 59 countries, Eurofins’ companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods. Eurofins Shares are listed on Euronext Paris Stock Exchange.
