Technical Management as a Service
Not every SME needs a permanent CTO or technical director. We take on the technical role when it is needed, from important technical decisions to product development, production and investments.
Technical decisions do not wait for a full-time hire.
In a small or medium manufacturer, the owner or general manager often carries the technical decisions alone: which machine to buy, which supplier to trust, how to answer a demanding customer's audit, whether a new product is ready. A permanent technical director is a large cost for work that comes in waves.
What we offer is what efce's founder needed as a CEO for eighteen years: a senior engineer who looks at the whole problem, says plainly what is worth doing, and stays until it works.
What we take on
- Technical evaluation of investments
- Choice of technologies
- Evaluation of suppliers
- Technical offers and tenders
- Preparation for demanding customers
- Customer audits
- Development of new departments
- Technical organisation
- R&D priorities
- Supervision of technical projects
- Link between management and production
A specific, agreed role
The role is defined with you according to what the company needs: which decisions, which projects, how many days. It does not include the daily running of the plant or a permanent operational responsibility, unless that is explicitly agreed.
A technical role with a clear scope.
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Understanding the company
Products, customers, production, people and the decisions that are pending.
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Agreeing the role
Which responsibilities, which projects, how much time, and how progress is reported.
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Working inside the company
Regular presence, decisions prepared with the figures, and supervision of the technical projects.
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Review
The role is reviewed as the company grows: sometimes the right next step is to hire, and we help with that too.
Our agreements are judged by the result, not by the delivery of equipment.
Experience with demanding customers
Eighteen years as CEO of a manufacturer supplying German automotive suppliers and international metering companies: tenders, supplier qualification, audits and the procedures that pass them.
ExperienceReal projects.
From the tender to the production line
Do you need technical management without hiring a permanent technical director?
Tell us what is on the table: an investment, a demanding customer, a new department, a product that has to move forward. We will agree a clear role and scope before anything starts.