School District Maintenance Operations Analyses

he Portolan Group provides consulting services related to school district maintenance. We provide schools with analyses of every component of their maintenance operations. As part of this process, we analyze the district’s maintenance expenditures, purchasing practices, staffing, policies and procedures. We look at the district work order system.

We analyze how the maintenance workers interface with those from other departments. We will evaluate your training programs. We will even evaluate how your maintenance workers interface with the academic program, something that is ignored by virtually every other company.

We do not rely on using baseline data from other districts to offer comparisons. We look at the unique facilities and culture of each district to determine optimal maintenance operations. We believe that over-reliance on comparators leads to artificial data.

If you are considering outsourcing a portion or the entire department, we will help you evaluate the options. We are neither for nor against outsourcing. Our goal is to help you identify the most effective manner to manage the maintenance department in your particular district.

Please call or email us from the contact page if you would like to speak with us about what we can do to help you with your maintenance needs.