Featured Employer:
The BSME is proud to showcase BESTECH as our current 2012 Featured Employer!
Based in one of the world's largest mining regions, BESTECH is a trusted team of professionals delivering industrial, environmental and software development services and products to international mining and mining related companies. Their highly skilled team is well-equipped to undertake a diverse range of projects, with a commitment to performing "On Time, On Budget and On Spec".
Inception
BESTECH Co-CEOs Marc Boudreau and Denis Pitre grew up on the same street in Hanmer and have been friends since before kindergarten. They kept in touch in high school, but "it's a fluke that we ended up in the same place, at the same time, doing the same thing," Pitre said. "We never talked about being engineers... we took the same courses and everything without talking to each other." Pitre didn't expect to come back to Sudbury when he graduated from engineering, but soon found himself working at Falconbridge with his best friend. They talked about starting their own consulting business for several years before taking the leap shortly before their 30th birthdays.
The BESTECH Family
BESTECH has been recognized as a top employer, and with good cause. Boasting competitive salaries, excellent benefits, a company gym, flexible hours and numerous staff events, BESTECH offers a fulfilling work environment. BESTECH's culture is one of openness, respect, trust and understanding; this culture has been encouraged and embraced by management and staff alike, creating a true cohesive team atmosphere. The firm is constantly on the lookout for dynamic individuals who can complement the team and allow BESTECH to continue to exceed clients' expectations in the delivery of quality services and products.
Fullfilling a need
Founded in 1995, BESTECH was created to fulfill the need for specialized system integration and automation solutions in the mining sector. Yet, over the years, the company has grown with its clients' needs and diversified to become a recognized leader in delivering professional services to the pulp and paper, forestry, oil and gas, automotive, manufacturing, municipal and other industry sectors. From its early days as a startup, Boudreau and Pitre operated the business out of a modest single office space on Lorne Street in Sudbury, which has magnified to 14,000 square feet, and the firm now comprises a total of four locations in three cities: Sudbury (two locations), Timmins and Toronto. These developments occurred as a result of continued expansion servicing various sectors.
Today, BESTECH has expanded nationally with contracts in Labrador and the Northwest Territories and internationally with clients in the United-States, Mexico, Chile, Australia and Peru. The firm is renowned worldwide for its superior standards in quality assurance, leading innovations and creating high-value partnerships.
The BESTECH Way
BESTECH's strategy is to provide innovative and cost effective solutions that will satisfy the needs of their clients. Their commitment to quality is manifested in the successful development and implementation of an integrated project management approach, automated engineering design standards, and their everyday communication with new and existing clients. As an added-value feature, BESTECH's knowledgeable team of professionals offers ongoing support to ensure their products and services achieve desired results; thus, reinforcing BESTECH's mantra of "on time, on budget and on spec".
Giving Back
BESTECH and its employees realize the rewarding impact of community involvement both internally and externally. Owners and staff are highly involved in enriching the Sudbury community through sponsorships, donations and volunteerism. With staff involvement or corporate support in numerous local events and organizations, such as Relay for Life, numerous Easter Seals events, and fundraisers for the Food Bank, BESTECH regularly participates in activities geared to improving the quality of life in Greater Sudbury and Timmins.
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Innovation in both Services & Products
The company structure has evolved over the years to now consist of two divisions: Services and Products. In the Services division, ten separate departments operate including Engineering, Automation, Information Technology / Information Services, Electrical & Instrumentation Construction, Environmental Monitoring, Product Development, Technical Support, Power, Corporate and Sales & Marketing. With respect to Products, BESTECH offers four unique groundbreaking products, some of which have been designed and developed by the company itself. These products have been created to meet the demanding needs of efficiency and cost-savings faced by many organizations.
The following provides a list of BESTECH's innovative products:
- NRG1-ECO™, a mine-wide energy management solution used for Ventilation-on-Demand and other energy optimization applications that greatly reduces a mine's energy consumption while maximizing productivity, profitability and worker safety;
- RopeInspector™, a system that automates regulated visual hoist rope inspection by providing 360° coverage at full speed capturing potential rope defects in real time enabling increased hoisting utilization, maintenance time and providing a safer work environment for inspectors;
- AQM™, a web-based ambient air quality monitoring system that offers a variety of options for acquiring and distributing data to various environmental and operational stakeholders who require real-time information about production emission processes; and
- PORTAULS®, which stands for Plant Optimization Resource Tracking Asset Utilization and data Logging Software, is a process analysis software designed to help businesses address and meet critical and demanding needs at all levels of the organization.
BESTECH has also formed partnerships with local non-profit organizations in the mining and innovation fields, MIRARCO, CEMI, INO, C-Core and NORCAT, to ensure it offers exceptional services and quality products in order to provide solutions to the challenges mining and industrial businesses
An Award-winning Firm
As an award-winning firm in the areas of Innovation, Company of the Year, Economic Development and now Best Employer, BESTECH continues to provide outstanding services while developing new markets and industries, increasing employment and community support while expanding its product line. The company has experienced rapid and sustainable growth since its inception and has since carried out numerous projects over the decade allowing them to build a reputation of excellence through their continued dedication to their clients.
The following is a list of BESTECH's achievements:
- 2012 Queen's University's School of Business - Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada
- 2011 United Way/Centraide Sudbury and/et District Most Improved Award - Industrial
- 2011 Finalist in the Desjardins Entrepreneurs Awards – Sustainable Development
- 2010 Community Builders Award of Excellence – Economic Development
- 2009 YPA Awards – Best Place to Work
- 2008 Bell Business Excellence Awards – Company of the Year
- 2005 Top 5 Employers of Northern Ontario
- 2000 Bell Business Excellence Awards – Innovation
- 2000 Northern Ontario Business Awards – Innovation
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