Specialty Maintenance Services LLC is a power-plant turbine sandblasting and industrial surface-preparation company headquartered in Brookhaven, Mississippi. We mobilize crews to gas turbine, steam turbine, and combined-cycle facilities across the United States to deliver precision blast cleaning, CO₂ dry-ice cleaning, and non-destructive testing during scheduled outages and emergency turnarounds.
Built Around Power-Plant Outages
Outage windows are short, costly, and unforgiving. Every hour a turbine is offline costs the operator real money, so we built our entire operation around two principles: arrive ready and finish on schedule. Our crews travel with self-contained blast equipment, abrasive media, recovery systems, and PPE so we can be productive within hours of arriving on site — no waiting on rentals, no idle time charged back to the plant.
We work directly for power generators, OEM turbine service teams, EPC contractors, and independent maintenance firms. Most of our work is on heavy-duty frame gas turbines, aeroderivative units, steam turbine casings and rotors, HRSGs, condensers, and balance-of-plant equipment.
What We Do
- Turbine sandblasting — abrasive blast cleaning of compressor blades, turbine sections, casings, diaphragms, and rotors using aluminum oxide, garnet, glass bead, walnut shell, and other media matched to the substrate and surface profile spec.
- CO₂ dry-ice blasting — non-abrasive, residue-free cleaning for energized equipment, generators, electrical components, and surfaces where abrasive media cannot be used.
- NDT / NDE inspection — visual, dye penetrant, magnetic particle, ultrasonic thickness, and borescope inspection performed during or after surface prep so defects are caught before recoating.
- Surface profile and cleanliness verification — testex tape readings, SSPC-VIS comparisons, salt and chloride testing, and full documentation packages for the project file.
Standards We Work To
Power-generation work is governed by published industry standards, and our crews are trained to work to them. Typical specs we deliver against include SSPC-SP 5 White Metal, SSPC-SP 10 Near-White Metal, SSPC-SP 6 Commercial Blast, and SSPC-SP 11 Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal. Surface profiles are verified per ASTM D4417, and abrasive cleanliness per ASTM D7393. NDT inspections follow ASNT and ASME guidelines.
Safety First, Always
Every job starts with a written job-hazard analysis and a tailgate safety meeting. Crews carry OSHA 10/30 cards, respiratory fit-test documentation, and confined-space training where required. We comply with site-specific contractor onboarding programs (ISNetworld, Avetta, Veriforce) and bring our own permits, lockout/tagout locks, and rescue equipment for confined-space entries.
Service Area
From our base in Brookhaven, Mississippi we mobilize nationwide. Most of our project work is in the Gulf South, Texas, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions, but we travel to any U.S. plant location for outage-driven scopes. Crews travel ready to deploy on short notice for emergency turnarounds.
Why Plants Hire Us
- We specialize. Turbine work is what we do every week — not a side scope between paint jobs.
- We document. Every job leaves with profile readings, photo records, and a closeout package that goes straight into your QA file.
- We finish on schedule. Outage critical-path work demands crews that move when the turbine is opened, not when convenient.
- We answer the phone. Quotes come back same business day. Field changes get acknowledged in real time.
Request a Quote
If you have an upcoming turbine outage, an emergency turnaround, or a recurring maintenance scope and want a quote, contact us here. Tell us the equipment type, scope, location, and outage window — we’ll respond with availability and pricing the same business day.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Specialty Maintenance Services located?
Our headquarters and equipment yard are at 391 Baldwin Loop NW, Brookhaven, Mississippi 39601. Brookhaven sits on I-55 between Jackson and the Gulf Coast, which allows us to mobilize to power plants across the Southeast within hours and the continental U.S. within a day.
What industries do you serve?
Primarily electric power generation — gas-fired, combined-cycle, steam, and industrial cogeneration plants. We also support refineries, chemical plants, paper mills, and heavy industrial facilities where turbine, rotating equipment, or pressure-vessel surface preparation is needed.
Are you insured and pre-qualified?
Yes. We carry general liability, workers’ compensation, and auto insurance as required for power plant and industrial sites. We are registered with ISNetworld, Avetta, Veriforce, and most major owner-qualified vendor portals.
Who founded Specialty Maintenance Services?
Specialty Maintenance Services LLC was founded by Cody Smith, a career turbine and power-plant specialist who started the company to focus exclusively on the surface-prep, cleaning, and inspection work that keeps outages on schedule.
How quickly can you respond to an emergency?
For emergency outages we can typically have a preliminary crew and equipment on site within 24 hours anywhere in the continental United States, and a full outage-scale crew within 48 to 72 hours.