Nevertheless, he admits to many sleepless nights when he questioned the soundness of taking such a risk. “With my wife’s blessings and support, I cashed in all our savings and investments and put it into this business.” Speed the clock forward to today, however, and it turns out that Munsoor made a good move in the long run. He has grown the business to a team of 25 employees and expanded their service line. Now, QMMS delivers comprehensive industrial services to a variety of sectors across western Canada including oil and gas, mining, pulp and paper, lumber, food and beverage, manufacturing, and distribution. Their services range from new construction to preventive maintenance, emergency repair, project management, and everything industrial in between. Munsoor says that when he initially took over running the business, they were mostly performing millwright service work. “It was a pretty niche business. It was conveyor system maintenance, conveyor system installation, and basic trouble shooting. Sometimes we would need to machine or fabricate our own parts and I was outsourcing all of that at the start.” “That’s where the motivation for expanding of the business came into play,” Munsoor says. “I hired my own welders. I hired my own machinists. I hired my own electricians.” He says that oftentimes these employees would need to be capable in multiple disciplines. They did not always have enough work to keep a machinist or a welder busy full time. “Our welders APRIL 2024
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