How Tessiers Mechanical fights off labor shortcomings before they happen.
Effectively and efficiently managing labor with one office is a challenge for most contractors. With a distributed workforce like Tessiers, keeping tabs on everything would be impossible without a Workforce Management platform built for self-perform contractors. RIVET empowers the team’s project managers to collaborate across their different locations, and fight off labor shortcomings earlier.
“You’re seeing it before it ever gets to the platform,” Operations Lead Shawn Kast said. In turn, this means Productivity killers aren’t as much of a factor anymore. “Guys have adjusted their Forecast and, by using their true actuals, they’re adjusting Forecasts down.”
Kast described a common situation that only happens when you Labor Plan every job. When a Forecast is adjusted down and there’s 1,000 hours left on the job, the foreman will set the Forecast to half that. And then, they’ll tell the general contractor or customer what’s happening and why: to save on the project or maybe even increase profitability. From there the Forecast request goes to Kast for approval.
“We’ve had a lot of good, good jobs like that lately where we’re actually showing we’re gonna beat [our] hours,” Kast said. “So their Productivity is up.”
To learn more about how Tessiers 10X’d its productivity, read the full case study.