According to industry analysts, demand for engineering services will grow substantially across most sectors and geographies through 2010. Yet, many engineering organizations are already struggling to keep up with demand. In a recent survey, leading engineering firms, telecoms and utilities reported that finding qualified engineers was one of the Top 5 challenges facing their businesses. These firms also reported that responding to increased competition was another Top 5 challenge. For some firms and organizations, these twin challenges – scarcer talent and increased competition – have already meant higher operational costs, inability to meet demand, and lost customers, revenues and profits.

Our team of highly trained engineers and technicians is unmatched in the industry. As a visible and respected employer in our operating countries worldwide, we know where and how to recruit highly educated, world-class professionals. Not only do we hire the best, we retain them. Many of our engineering and technical professionals have been with us a decade or more.

Our proprietary human resources management system (HRMS) tracks all recruitment requirements, employee training, proficiency testing and certifications. This highly sophisticated software allows Apex to match each task with the skills required for completion. Only those professionals who have been certified for specific tasks are permitted to perform them. This ensures that we are assigning our best people to the right customer tasks and assignments.

We believe that quality is not just our goal, it’s our competitive advantage. We know that properly defined standards, effective process management and outstanding communication are crucial to your project’s success. That’s why we’ve built quality checkpoints throughout our planning and implementation processes.

Apex uses our proprietary Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software called ProACT^®, which is the most advanced workflow system in use today within the engineering, geospatial and data management industries. ProACT includes workflow monitoring systems that allow us to provide our customers with real-time and accurate project management data on all aspects of a project or program.

• Production progress tracking–a workflow management tool that project managers and customers use to ensure that production milestones are met and schedules are maintained
• ProcessQA^®–our real-time quality assurance system that monitors quality throughout every step of our production work flow
• ProductQA^®–our statistically proven method for independently certifying all completed products or deliverables—prior to customer delivery—that all quality standards have been maintained or exceeded with the final product
• ISO 9001 certified

Quickly Add Engineering, Drafting And
Data Management Capacity
Our professional staff includes mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, telecommunications and civil engineers and technicians, as well as experts in physics, mathematics, technical writing and the graphic presentation of engineering drawings. Should your program require addition talent currently not on staff, our defined recruiting and training process ensures that we can quickly find and hire the engineers and technicians that best fit the project needs. We are continuously hiring professionals across our businesses, and as a visible and respected employer in all our operating countries, we know where and how to recruit highly educated, world-class professionals. Our backfile of qualified engineering applicants gives us immediate access to some of the most talented and successful engineers and technicians. We also utilize our experienced senior management team to work closely with our clients, especially in the beginning phases of a project, to help plan how Apex can contribute towards our customers' business objectives.

Rapidly Integrate New Engineering Capacity
At Apex CoVantage, we know that effective process-level training enables rapid integration of new engineering and project capacity. As a result, our approach to process-level training is highly customer and situation-specific. We frequently send our lead engineers and technicians to client locations to participate in train-the-trainer sessions. We also arrange team training via video conferences. In addition, many of our clients travel to our production locations to lead training sessions at our facilities. The specific training model that we adopt depends on your preferences and the availability of your people to participate in training activities.

No matter what training model we follow, our in-house training and curriculum staff develop customized tools and courseware that capture the content and spirit of your original training program. This allows us to train additional or new members of a remote or offshore team while placing little, or no, incremental training burden on you.

Dramatically Accelerate Performance
Our engineering, drafting and data processing teams work in North America and the United Kingdom, and at ultra-modern facilities in India located in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. Our multi location production capabilities mean that we can provide dedicated engineering support during day or night hours in the United States, Europe or Asia. Most of our clients choose to deploy these teams on an overnight basis, immediately creating a round-the-clock engineering capability that did not exist before. In some cases, this overnight capability alone is sufficient to cut overall engineering project times by a third.