| home | contact us |
|
Central Power -
High Voltage Power Engineers
|
|
|
|
The Company
Central Power Ltd was incorporated on 3rd August 2004. The company is based in Wednesfield near M6 unction 10 and is ideally placed to service clients in both the East and West Midlands. Central Power has the necessary resources to provide, install and maintain high and low voltage electrical power systems to all High Voltage (HV) customers.
The team at Central Power have between them over 100 years experience in the electricity supply industry.
Of course, trust is vital in a working relationship, so when you ask for Central Power’s people and skills –that's exactly what you get. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
The company is owned equally by the 3 directors of the business: Redmond Cosgrove, Mark Jarrett and Michael Kennedy. All 3 directors were previously employed as senior managers within Central Networks Contracting - formerly MEB Contracting.
Scope of Works The main services offered by Central Power are:
Our Mission Values and Beliefs
The Company’s overall aims are encompassed in the following mission statement:
“To deliver premier service and ensure that we are the Natural Choice”
Our Key stakeholders, who have a role to play in our success are:
We feel that in order to be successful in the future that the reasonable expectations of each stakeholder group should be met. Our Company strategies are designed with our mission statement in mind.
The Company’s management philosophy is based on teamwork and partnerships coupled with clear personal responsibilities for the delivery of our business objectives. We constantly strive to be the leader in our chosen markets and we believe that sustainable success can only be achieved by delivering consistently excellent service to every customer. However, to achieve this lead we cannot rely solely on our reputation for high quality workmanship, other companies offer similar quality work. Whilst it is essential that we maintain our reputation for quality, we must also ensure that customers experience the same high quality service in every aspect of their business with us.
Key Customers Needs
Central Power has identified the following key customer needs:
Operational safety All three directors are highly skilled and trained installers of electrical power systems and hold current NEBOSH certificates. They have worked in the industry for the greater part of their working lives and are fully competent in all areas of operational safety.
Reliability and Quality Due to the requirement for business owners to maintain their electrical systems, they seek reliable maintenance providers, who will provide a quality service, meeting the customers’ needs in terms of value for money and safety. The directors and skilled craftsmen have proven track records of offering reliability and quality in all aspects of their work.
Responsiveness We aim to differentiate our service from the competition by responding to phone calls and correspondence promptly and courteously, resolving problems quickly and sympathetically.
Loss of power supply to our customers can prove very disruptive and costly if it were not actioned quickly, we therefore offer 365 day 24- hour response to all our customers and endeavour to attend site within 4 hours of a call.
Principle Customers
Since its incorporation Central Power has achieved considerable growth. Receiving orders from a diverse range of major industrial customers covering the complete spectrum of HV Contracting activities e.g.
Managing Director– Redmond Cosgrove, Ieng, MIET, MCMI Redmond is a registered member of the Institution of Incorporated Engineers and has over 30 years experience of working in the electricity industry, building up general management, sales and marketing skills over this time.
Redmond boasts a series of Electrical and Electronic qualifications including an MBA in Business Administration.
In addition to his academic achievements Redmond has worked as Senior Authorised Person since 1985, and has gained invaluable experience from working as an SAP on both private and electricity company distribution networks.
Finance Director – Mark Jarrett, Ieng, MIET Mark has worked within the electricity industry for 20 years. During this time, he has worked his way through the ranks from Project Engineer to his Business Manager.
Most recently at MEB contracting his role as the ‘Utilities’ Business Manager involved managing the maintenance and replacement program of Central Network’s 11kv distribution system.
Mark has achieved several qualifications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Construction and Management studies throughout his career.
Mark attained Senior Authorised Person status in 1994 and is experienced in most types of switch gear and cable networks up to 11kv.
Operations Director – Michael Kennedy Michael has worked in the electricity industry for over 27 years and experienced several promotions in his working career rising from an apprentice electrician to Business Manager within Central Networks Contracting.
Michael is credited as being one of the first craftsmen to attain multi skilled status within MEB, and quickly progressed along the engineering route - attaining Senior Authorised Person status in 1994. With this level of knowledge and experience Michael is the ideal candidate to become the companies Operations Director - managing industrial staff, transport, logistics and health and safety compliance issues
During his career Michael achieved several work-related qualifications, and has attended a range of management training and development courses.
Electricians All electricians are experienced in both the installation and testing of electrical installations to BS4750. They are familiar with all types of wiring and containment systems used in commercial and industrial buildings: · SWA cables up to 4c300mm · Conduit and cable trunking installations · Cable ladder and steel support systems · LV switchboards / distribution boards · Testing and commissioning to BS4750 · ACB and MCCB testing and commissioning
HV Fitters All fitters are experienced in the installation, maintenance and testing of most types of 11kv switchgear and protection systems in use on private high voltage networks: · Oil filled Switchgear, · SF6 Switchgear · Vacuum Switchgear · Oil filled Transformers · Cast resin Transformers · Class C Transformers · Transformer Oil sampling and testing · Earth electrode installation and testing · Protection testing and commissioning
Jointers All Jointers are experienced in terminating all types of power cables up to 11kv: · PILC, to PILC · XLPE to XLPE · PILC to XLPE · Traditional compound termination’s / joints · Dry terminations / joints.
Health and Safety Advisor Operational safety has been identified as the primary critical success factor within Central Power and whilst the 3 directors currently hold NEBOSH certificates and actively promote an ethos of operational safety in all their work, the company employs an external safety advisor to carry independent safety inspections /tours. His role is to identify improvements to existing safety practices and is fundamental to the continued growth of this business.
|
|||
|
|
© copyright 2006 | Central Power |
 |
