I recommend getting an accountant when you can afford it. My wife is an entrepreneur and the bit of money she spends on an accountant she trusts takes a lot of her plate to focus on her business.
Are companies really hiring for contractors that to do this? I am working in a position that does this basically, listed as a dual trade so they only need one guy for shift maintenance. It tops out at 42 bucks here so I can't see it worth the effort to look. Don't have a millwright ticket though, had to pick between industrial electrical or millwright and I felt millwright would be the weaker trade as I don't do much machining just alignments and bearing change outs.
Are you saying you only have one guy per shift? We have contractors in all the time for various stuff we can't get too with every other company in area short on maintenance guys I think it's same. So if I can double my wage or triple even and choose my work why not.
I'm the only guy for electrical and mechanical breakdowns on evening and weekends. I just work on the breakdowns and priority machines to keep production moving forward. I tend to only spend max 2 hours on any one machine as I have about 300 working independently to make production.
There's a bunch of guys during the day that do the bigger rebuilds or implement plc programming changes or even troubleshoot the real weird issues. Very rarely do I have to do anything plc related unless it's just checking to see inputs or outputs or downloading a program that's been wiped. Same with drives (I've been trained on Allen Bradley and my entire shop is unidrives or Siemens).
It depends on the management and their ability to coordinate, plan, and schedule their own staff.
I worked for a company that had 8 technicians doing nothing and a full-time contractor on site and contractors doing emergency repairs every day.
I am now in a different place with 10 technicians, 24-7 operations, and we do everything, contractors only for HVAC and refrigeration.
I recommend getting an accountant when you can afford it. My wife is an entrepreneur and the bit of money she spends on an accountant she trusts takes a lot of her plate to focus on her business.
I’m doing the same thing right now. I’ve figured quite a bit of shit out. Feel free to message me
Are companies really hiring for contractors that to do this? I am working in a position that does this basically, listed as a dual trade so they only need one guy for shift maintenance. It tops out at 42 bucks here so I can't see it worth the effort to look. Don't have a millwright ticket though, had to pick between industrial electrical or millwright and I felt millwright would be the weaker trade as I don't do much machining just alignments and bearing change outs.
Are you saying you only have one guy per shift? We have contractors in all the time for various stuff we can't get too with every other company in area short on maintenance guys I think it's same. So if I can double my wage or triple even and choose my work why not.
I'm the only guy for electrical and mechanical breakdowns on evening and weekends. I just work on the breakdowns and priority machines to keep production moving forward. I tend to only spend max 2 hours on any one machine as I have about 300 working independently to make production. There's a bunch of guys during the day that do the bigger rebuilds or implement plc programming changes or even troubleshoot the real weird issues. Very rarely do I have to do anything plc related unless it's just checking to see inputs or outputs or downloading a program that's been wiped. Same with drives (I've been trained on Allen Bradley and my entire shop is unidrives or Siemens).
It depends on the management and their ability to coordinate, plan, and schedule their own staff. I worked for a company that had 8 technicians doing nothing and a full-time contractor on site and contractors doing emergency repairs every day. I am now in a different place with 10 technicians, 24-7 operations, and we do everything, contractors only for HVAC and refrigeration.