Automation for the energy supply chain
Competency records, permits, RAMS, site documentation.
The compliance load that grows every time you win work.
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The reality on the ground
Winning more work makes it worse.
Every new contract brings a new client portal, a new document control standard, a new set of formats, and a compliance load that grows faster than the revenue does.
The work is there. The Humber is the country's largest industrial cluster and the centre of its energy transition. Demand has never been your problem.
Your problem is that scaling the delivery means scaling the paperwork, and only one of those has been automated.
The competency matrix is a spreadsheet, and it's load-bearing.
CCNSG. ECITB. Offshore survival. Confined space. IRATA. Plant tickets. Different providers, different renewal periods, different evidence formats — all tracked in one file, by one person, who checks it when they remember.
A certificate lapses quietly. Nobody knows until someone's turned away at a gate, on a day you're already tight on labour.
You onboard the same subcontractor four times a year.
Insurance. RAMS. Competency evidence. Right to work. Collected, verified, filed — then collected again for the next client's portal, in the next client's format, because there's no shared record.
Everyone involved knows it's the same information. Everyone types it again anyway.
RAMS get rebuilt from scratch when eighty per cent is identical to last time.
Someone experienced, on a good rate, spending an afternoon reproducing a document that already substantially exists — because finding and adapting the old one takes nearly as long.
Timesheets arrive by WhatsApp from four sites.
Chased Monday. Keyed into payroll. Keyed again into client billing. Reconciled at month-end, when the discrepancies surface and nobody can remember which site was which.
And the handover pack is a known crisis with a known date.
O&M manuals, ITP records, as-builts, certification. Assembled in the final fortnight, under pressure, from files nobody organised as the project ran.
It's the thing that releases your final payment. It's also the thing that gets left to last, every single time.
None of this is incompetence. It's a business whose administrative load was designed for a company half your size.
It worked at ten people. At forty, it's held together by one spreadsheet and one person's memory — and both of those are single points of failure you haven't priced.
Where the hours go
Competency and certification tracking
CCNSG, ECITB, offshore survival, confined space, IRATA, plant tickets. Different renewal dates, different providers, different evidence formats. All in one increasingly fragile spreadsheet.
Contractor and subcontractor onboarding
The same information collected repeatedly. Insurance certificates, RAMS, competency evidence, right to work. Rekeyed for each client's portal.
RAMS and permit documentation
Documents rebuilt from scratch when 80% of the content is the same as last time.
Site access and induction records
Who's on site, who's inducted, whose access expires when. Often three separate lists that don't agree.
Timesheets across multiple sites
Collected by hand or WhatsApp, chased on a Monday, keyed into payroll, then keyed again into client billing.
Document control and handover packs
O&M manuals, ITP records, as-built documentation. Assembled at the end of a project under time pressure, from files scattered across a shared drive.
Client reporting
Every principal contractor wants a slightly different format. Someone reformats the same data four ways every month.
What we'd look at first
One source of truth for competency.
A single record per person, with automated alerts before expiry — not after. This is usually the highest-value fix in an energy supply chain business and among the fastest to build.
Templated document generation.
RAMS, permits, method statements. If 80% is boilerplate, it should be generated, with your people spending their time on the 20% that's actually job-specific.
Onboarding once, not per-client.
Collect the information once, into your system. Push it out in whatever format each client demands.
Handover packs assembled as you go.
Document control should be a background process, not a scramble in the final fortnight.
The regional picture
HEY LSIP 2.0 names Energy as one of four Growth Driving sectors and identifies it as one of the fastest-growing parts of the local economy — with the area projected to host over 10,000 green jobs by 2030, rising to almost 18,000 by 2050.
The Humber Freeport is expected to generate over 7,000 jobs and attract more than £1 billion in investment.
The plan also lists specific skills shortages across offshore project managers, engineering technicians, electrical installation specialists, pipe fitters and welders — alongside emerging demand for data analysts, cyber security specialists and AI specialists.
Read it at heylsip.com
The honest reading: the work is scaling faster than the people are. If your admin load grows in proportion to your contract book, growth becomes the thing that breaks you.
We are not a health and safety consultancy.
We don't write your safety case or advise on your CDM duties. We build the systems that make the evidence easy to produce and impossible to lose.
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