How Gillespie Electric uses RIVET to manage labor
It used to be once Gillespie Electric’s Friday manpower meeting wrapped, regardless of any transfers or other labor moves, none of the spreadsheets would be updated until next week’s meeting.
“The spreadsheet only gave you the information as of Friday, and no one was really keeping it up to date or really looking at it the rest of the week,” company President David Burkhart said on our Construction Executive webinar.
All your labor information, all in one place
This didn’t work for him. He wanted a two-way flow of information where project managers could view and enter project data as the jobs moved along. Something where, when he needed to look over status, he wouldn’t have to chase down three different people for the most recent information.
Gillespie’s roster kept expanding, and previously he’d used Excel spreadsheets for managing labor.
Tracking vacation time
“As the company grew and the amount of employees we had grew, it got harder and harder to track everything,” Burkhart said.
Now Gillespie uses RIVET. Not just for tracking who’s where and how projects are going, but for keeping an eye on how vacation time and labor availability affects staffing – something Burkhart couldn’t do with Excel.
Replacing your spreadsheets
“[RIVET] is a software that really provided everything I was looking for to replace the spreadsheet,” he said. “It had a lot more visibility” and it centralizes worker data onto Baseball Cards so he doesn’t have to hunt for it.
“I found that very useful,” he said. “I wanted to make sure the project managers, being decision makers, being the ones that have to always work multiple jobs, I wanted to make sure all the information for their jobs was at their fingertips.”
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