WEC Welding and Machining Subsidiaries Reorganize

After a year of planning and preparing, WEC Equipment and Machining Services is officially in the beginning stages of fruition.

The new company’s plans entail a handful of key elements, including a focus on field machining, metrology, electronics, machining product lines and field equipment.

The company is led by Director Mike Okolita, and ultimately falls under the parent company WEC Welding and Machining. The new organization will function along-side PCI Energy Services and Carolina Energy Solutions.

“The reason that we did this was to combine equipment synergies and to build and grow our machining business,” Okolita said. “This will allow us to focus more on technology, equipment, new platforms and taking our products to the next level.”

WEC Equipment and Machining Services also formed to balance out PCI Energy Services, a union organization, and CES, a non-union organization acquired in 2007. Ultimately, the new organization will advance WEC Welding and Machining.

The new company will focus on its supply chain, establishing equipment usage fees to keep the organizations competitive, establishing a quality assurance and quality control program, assembling a team for SAP integration and institutionalizing a Bid to Bank process.

Long term benefits include an increase in revenue, operations and sales, which ultimately will support more growth.

The structure is not intrusive, and keeps businesses running as usual.

“We’re not going to skip a beat,” Okolita said.

He’s happiest about the way everyone worked together, and how the reorganization was a collective team project.

“Pulling everyone together and making this happen is really the coolest thing that came out of this,” Okolita said. “There were a lot of different opinions, but everybody worked together and everyone wanted to do the right thing.”