Industrial maintenance and construction services for oil & gas operations in Brazil
C3 Engenharia operates a 5,000+ person industrial services business focused on maintenance shutdowns, routine maintenance, construction, and inspections across oil, gas, and petrochemical assets in Brazil. The company is mid-digitization — relying on legacy ERP (SAP, TOTVS), Excel, and project management tools (Primavera P6, Microsoft Project) while actively building a geospatial CapEx system to digitize non-digitized contracts, a project visible in both their roadmap and pain-point list. Engineering-heavy hiring (54 of 106 active roles) skews junior, signaling high-turnover field operations and compliance-heavy onboarding (safety training, PPRA/PCMAT/PCMSO implementation are live projects).
C3 Engenharia is a privately held industrial services firm operating since 2005 from Lauro de Freitas, Bahia. The business spans four service lines: maintenance shutdowns (paradas de manutenção), routine maintenance, construction and assembly, and industrial inspection across petrochemical and oil-and-gas clients. With 5,000–10,000 employees, the company manages distributed field teams, supply chains, and equipment inventories across multiple job sites. Current operational priorities include safety compliance structuring, maintenance cost tracking, and reducing unplanned machine downtime through improved preventive maintenance processes.
Primary systems are SAP and TOTVS for ERP, Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project for project scheduling, Microsoft 365 for productivity, and Adobe/CorelDRAW for design work. The company is implementing a custom geospatial CapEx system to manage non-digitized contracts.
Live projects include geospatial CapEx digitization for contracts, safety compliance programs (PPRA, PCMAT, PCMSO), electrical infrastructure upgrades, maintenance procedure standardization, and inventory system implementation to reduce machine downtime and optimize resource allocation.
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