Industrial contracting services transitioning to cloud-native finance and data infrastructure
Sylvan is a 70-year-old industrial contracting firm (pipe fabrication, turbine installation, refinery work across North America) undergoing significant operational modernization. The company is replacing Vista ERP with Oracle EPM, building a unified data lake, and implementing standard financial controls — all while absorbing recent M&A. Hiring is accelerating across engineering and data roles, with VP-level additions signaling this is a strategic transformation, not a maintenance upgrade.
Sylvan provides industrial contracting and maintenance services — including pipe fabrication, turbine installation, refinery projects, and power-generation work — to large industrial clients across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Founded in 1956, the company operates from Southfield, Michigan. The organization has historically relied on on-premises ERP (Vista) and desktop-based tools (Excel, Word, AutoCAD, Inventor) for project management and financial operations. Active projects now center on M&A data integration, migration to Oracle EPM, unified data-lake construction, and financial controls standardization—indicating a shift from legacy systems toward modern cloud and analytics infrastructure.
Sylvan is actively migrating from Vista ERP to Oracle EPM. The migration is listed as a top active project and is also mentioned as a pain point, indicating ongoing implementation complexity.
Sylvan is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. The company also has active hiring in the United States, Peru, and Slovakia.
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