Skilled support...unique solutions
Need a helping hand at your facility with maintenance jobs? Not sure who to call for filter changing…light maintenance...relamping...bottle washing...door repairs...construction cleanup?

You name it -- LaCosta's Maintenance Services Division can do it!

One company...a variety of services
With LaCosta, you get one flexible source for maintenance projects...all performed by highly competent people trained in a wide range of skills. You can manage them and set their schedules or we can, but you save the costs associated with new hires. Utilize your in-house resources to their greatest capability, while keeping costs at a minimum.

Whether your organization specializes in pharmaceuticals, food processing, printing, manufacturing, or needs to meet OSHA, FDA or clean room requirements, LaCosta is the answer!

Work solutions that are proven to work
Why hire new employees for maintenance projects when you can call LaCosta? We provide all the recruiting, screening, training, employee benefits, general liability and workman's compensation insurance, accident reporting, and timekeeping. You only pay for our personnel's time.

As a result, you get your projects completed in a timely manner by a trained professional. For most facility projects and staffing shortages, we have the answer!

Consistent job setup
Because our team follows specific setup procedures, you can be assured of consistent quality on every job. Our setup procedures start with identifying the project's scope, identifying site-specific requirements and identifying safety requirements to create a job description. We then assemble the right people, materials and equipment, establish customer reporting procedures, and follow-up.

Dedicated people at your service
We fully prescreen, employ, motivate, and retain long-term staff. Our recruiting department attracts qualified people, checking skill and communication levels, and conduct prescreening.

After each hire, we keep our employees motivated with complete benefits, incentives, award programs, and career advancement opportunities.

Automated labor tracking
To ensure that personnel are on the job, we use an automated personnel scheduling system. This system tracks personnel and alerts managers of absences, allowing management to allocate resources from a floater pool if necessary.

Unique customer service tools
LaCosta believes in working around your needs. To that end, we offer flexible staffing, value analysis programs, networking with your safety department to use best practices, a customer service phone line, and a 24-hour paging system and hotline.

Quality assurance is a continuing commitment
To provide outstanding quality, we assign a Project Manager to oversee your project, assess your goals, evaluate the services provided, obtain your feedback, and deal with any issues noted.

Rigorous training and safety
LaCosta provides rigorous training orientation for every employee. The area of training depends on the service they will provide, which can include filter changing, bottle washing, relamping, grounds maintenance, cage cleaning, construction cleanup, patching and repair, roof maintenance or snow removal.

We also instruct our staff on the use of safety rules, including the use of personal protective equipment, hazardous communication, the proper reporting of accidents and proper material use.

Experienced specialists...dependable solutions
Seeking a dependable moving service? One that also provides installation services...partition setup...and even carpentry in your new location?

LaCosta Moving & Installation Services are the answer!

Safe, timely relocation projects
LaCosta's unique systems for ensuring smooth, trouble-free relocation projects are respected throughout the industry. Following these systems for every job, we manage and provide professionals who are trained to pack, move, install partitions and furniture setup and many other items. You can also call upon our carpentry specialists for framing, dry wall installation, door installation, trim work, and light millwork.

Whether your organization specializes in pharmaceuticals, food processing, printing, manufacturing, or needs to meet OSHA, FDA or clean room requirements, LaCosta will get the job done right.

Standard operating procedures ensure quality service
How do we make your move problem-free? With our standard operating procedures! These procedures, practiced by all of our personnel, include work schedules, a complete procedures manual, pre-move check-lists, and site examinations. Safety plans and a quality assurance program are also part of these important procedures.

Consistent job setup
At the start of your moving project, our crew coordinates a plan for a seamless move by using consistent job setup procedures. These procedures help reduce your costs, minimize down time, and provide effective communication management throughout the project. They include:

• Identifying the project's scope
• Performing a pre-move survey
• Assessing needs through blueprints and working with site planners
• Securing the proper material
• Providing protection for required areas
• Determining site security needs
• Performing job walk-throughs
• Self-auditing to ensure your satisfaction

An experienced team
When you hire LaCosta, you are getting a complete team of moving professionals who are experienced at keeping jobs on schedule and ensuring the safe relocation of your furniture and boxes. We prescreen and hire qualified personnel who are trained by certified installers.

Our employees stay motivated with award programs, benefits, incentives, and internal promotions based on exceptional performance.

Working to meet your needs
Our customer service philosophy at LaCosta is to work with you, not fit you into our schedule. We believe that being flexible and maintaining ongoing communication with you are key.

A quality move
LaCosta understands your concerns about packing in a timely manner, keeping items organized and damage-free, and getting properly set up in your new location. Our quality assurance practices are designed to address each of these areas.

Our first quality assurance step is to assign a Project Manager to oversee your project. During the project, we employ self-auditing and verification systems to evaluate your satisfaction and ensure adherence to our standard operating procedures. In addition, we utilize the 5S Approach, enabling us to apply standardization and organizational tools. We also employ procedures for leaving your original site in move-in condition.

Safety through training
To provide excellence in service and safety, we provide our team members with the industry's top management, customer service, and in-service training. Our professionals undergo:

• Complete orientation that includes safe practices, moving equipment operational instruction, and safe work habits
• Complete training in your facility's safety procedures
• Instruction in the use of personal protective equipment, hazardous communication, and proper reporting of accidents
• Weekly Tool Box meetings, in which we review training procedures

For more on training and safety, see our training and safety sections.

Determine potential savings
Request our value analysis report to compare the cost of hiring in-house labor or using another vendor versus LaCosta. Call us today.

Hire or outsource?
Let our value analysis report help you compare the cost of hiring versus outsourcing! Ask about a value analysis today.