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10/07/2024

Hiring temporary labor is a quick way to eat up a job's profits. By Labor Planning every job with RIVET you can easily see how many workers you'll need – and where – before you're short staffed and at Workforce Capacity. Hear how Andrew Aker from Interstates does it.

"If we can see that we have more people than we've currently have work, that allows us to be really intentional about what type of projects we're looking for. Size of projects, timelines, where it's gonna fit. We can predict these peaks.”

09/27/2024

Contractors constantly tell us that better near-term Labor Planning could help them overcome profit fade as jobs ramp up and ramp down.

In our latest training webinar with RIVET Director of Product Louis Gelinas and Implementations Manager Dustin Acker to help with just that. Check it out!

Watch Training: Near-Term Labor Planning & Labor Crew Makeup There are lots of reasons why ramp-up and ramp-down don't always go as planned. How you respond when that happens shapes whether

09/23/2024

Discover how Duro Electric Company streamlined their processes with our platform. 'I can upload the actual certification. If I need to see if it really exists, it's there.' – Bill Rome, Duro Electric.

Read more about Duro’s Workforce Management journey 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q02QLTmM0

09/20/2024

Excited to welcome Dustin Acker, who brings 23 years of construction experience to his new role as Implementations Manager at our company. Discover his inspiring transition to construction tech here 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q02QzL2s0

11 questions with Dustin Acker, Implementations Manager Changing careers is daunting. After 23 years working construction, our Implementations Manager Dustin Acker developed an affinity for Workforce

09/16/2024

At Tessiers Mechanical Contractors, as many as 12 people are managing field labor.

“That’s one of our greatest wins. Now we’re moving the burden from one person and our project managers are taking that on because they know exactly what’s going on with their jobs.” — Bill DeNet, Vice President

Project managers went from project leaders to project watchers. Bill attributes that to having a Workforce Management platform for labor planning and team communication.

Learn how Tessiers went from 1:1 to 10:1 in project gain vs project fade by transforming Workforce Management 👉

Labor Planning at Tessiers Mechanical Contractors bolsters Productivity “We've been 10:1 in profit gain to profit fade on jobs. A lot of that comes from our labor savings." Bill DeNet Vice P

09/13/2024

ICYMI: Watch the recording of our Pursuit Labor Forecasting webinar ⬇️

https://hubs.ly/Q02PN7jQ0

Watch RIVET Workforce Management Platforms for:

1. How to see all pursuit projects on a dashboard
2. How to use prospective job statuses
3. How to create new projects
4. How to do scenario planning

Hosted by: RIVET’s Louis Gelinas and Carlton Electric, Inc's Dustin Weller

Watch Training: Pursuit Forecasting & Backlog Management Contractors consistently tell us that they struggle for two reasons: when there isn't enough work to keep everyone busy, and when

09/10/2024

With RIVET it only takes a few seconds and a couple of clicks to Dispatch schedule updates to your entire field force.
Schedule a demo today 👉https://hubs.ly/Q02PnXV70

09/09/2024

"You truly are our partners… That matters to me; you actually have conversations with us." In construction, relationships are paramount.

Duro Electric President Mark Stark has worked with countless software companies throughout his 30+ years in the industry. Typically, once contractually obligated training quotas have been fulfilled, the vendors disappear. If any further questions arose, he’d be on his own trying to figure out an answer.

“RIVET is way different than that,” he said.

Read more about Duro’s journey to RIVET in this case study 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q02P6t_70

09/06/2024

With a Workforce Management platform, fighting absenteeism is baked in.

"I can't tell you how many times I've had guys tell me they didn't get a text or email," Jason Sherwood, Senior Operations Scheduler at DP Electric Inc said.

With RIVET, he can easily track schedule update Dispatches, if they've been delivered and read, and track that over time.

Learn More:

Fighting absenteeism with a Workforce Management platform Sending out schedule updates doesn't have to be a flurry of handwritten texts and emails the night before. It doesn't have to be

08/26/2024

Duro Electric's last WFM platform couldn't keep up with the business. So Duro switched to RIVET. "It's been completely 100 percent better."

Bill Rome would know, he’s the primary RIVET user at Duro and serves as the company’s operations manager.

“Moving to RIVET really changed how effective we could be at getting our jobs done,” he said. “I wasn’t constantly on tech support saying, ‘hey, this is wrong.’ Even if the rest of my day goes to s**t, [RIVET] seems to be at least one piece that works for me and doesn’t break.”

Read more about Duro’s journey to RIVET in this case study 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q02Mw7B_0

08/09/2024

Efficiently integrating a WFM platform with your ERP is crucial to minimizing downtime and starting the path to better Labor Productivity. Interstate Electrical Services Corporation did it in two weeks. Learn More:

Integrating a software platform is daunting. There are seemingly countless moving parts. Getting everything right is crucial

08/05/2024

Without a [Labor] Plan, you’re shootin’ in the dark.” – Steve Drouin, VP of Technology at Interstate Electrical Services Corporation. Learn Why: https://hubs.ly/Q02K1Wzf0