Food & Beverage · ExpansionCompleted 2022

Snack Food Brand Manufacturing Expansion

Retail shelf space had been committed against capacity that did not yet exist.

LocationLévis, Quebec

ClientConfidential

LocationLévis, Quebec

SectorFood & Beverage

Value$145M

Size180,000 sq ft

DeliveryDesign-Build

Duration24 months

StatusCompleted 2022

Why it mattered

Food and beverage plants live by market windows: peak season, retail launches, distribution contracts. A schedule that misses the window does not lose weeks; it loses the year.

The challenge

A snack food brand expanded one of its plants to meet rising demand. Retail commitments had already been made on the strength of the new capacity.

A Quebec winter, cross-border equipment logistics and a bilingual project team each added risk. The first draft schedule treated winter as ordinary working time, which our baseline review flagged in its first week.

Our role

Baseline Schedule Development Schedule Updates Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartJul 2020

Duration24 months

HandoverJul 2022

Progress—

Protect productionPut equipment on the pathIntegrate the vendorsValidate and ramp

How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04

PHASE 01Protect production

Shutdowns placed in low-demand periods, with every outage planned to the hour.

PHASE 02Put equipment on the path

Process equipment tracked from factory slot to setting on its foundation.

PHASE 03Integrate the vendors

Line vendors, automation and building trades working to one critical path.

PHASE 04Validate and ramp

Line trials, food-safety validation and ramp-up scheduled as real work with real durations.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01First product on target

The first saleable product came off the new line on the target date.

Result 02Winter built in

Cold-weather work was sequenced and costed in the baseline instead of surfacing later as delay.

Result 03Imports tracked end to end

Imported process equipment was followed from factory to installation, customs clearance included.

Services engaged

What we brought to it

Our work in Food & Beverage

2.01.02Baseline Schedule Development

Approved baselines that capture scope, sequence and risk with precision: the fixed reference against which every future decision, dollar and day is judged.

2.01.06Schedule Updates

Disciplined periodic updates that capture verified progress, explain every movement and keep the schedule an instrument of command rather than a record of hope.

2.01.15Commissioning & Startup Scheduling

System-based commissioning and startup schedules that carry facilities from mechanical completion to reliable operation without the familiar last-mile slip.

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