MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR SOFTWARE
Inefficient labor management significantly impacts your bottom line
Mechanical operations leaders like yourself are improving labor management, utilization, planning and productivity with RIVET’s help.
We believe:
1. Having a Labor Plan improves Productivity.
2. Having a Workforce Management Business Practice is how you create, maintain and execute a labor plan for your business.
3. You need a software platform built for construction and fit to the task.
Video: RIVET’s CEO explains how Labor Planning improves Labor Productivity.
Tour the RIVET Platform for Mechanical Contractors
Centralize your labor operations in one place, in real time, accessible from anywhere.
1. Start with Labor Forecasting
Without consistent labor plans, it’s common to ramp up too fast or too slow, or not at all. As a result, this leads to profit erosion and ultimately, company growth is unpredictable.
- Build automated, adjustable Labor Curves for jobs awarded and in pursuit
- Aggregate company-wide Workforce Capacity
2. Maintain a consolidated and complete field Roster.
Having an accurate, consolidated Roster in one place is critical for labor management.
- Reference and maintain Baseball Cards for your field workforce.
- Find the right individual based on their job history and prior work experience
3. Schedule to your Forecast
Overtime kills Productivity. To mitigate this, ensure crew assignments are based on the skills you need on the job and the number of people you need on the project.
- Get a snapshot of people across projects on a Roster Board
- Balance people and project assignments on Gantt schedules
- Transfer workers, amend schedules and automatically resolve schedule conflicts
4. Alert and remind applicable parties of labor changes
Improve communication to save time wasted on redundant calls, emails, texts, meetings and job board photos while inspiring trust from the field team.
- First, send your field force their weekly schedules
- Then, inform everyone of transfers with one message
5. Send people and project information on a need-to-know basis
With RIVET, ensure information is only available to those who require it for their role.
- View people and projects on a map to make geographical considerations
- View job progress right next to assignments, open positions and labor requests
- See a lookahead report of upcoming job and workforce changes
6. Sync with existing ERP and HR systems, avoiding double data entry completely
Integrate people, projects, certification and work-in-progress (WIP) data with RIVET, depending on the system.
Read Case Studies
Mechanical Contractors use RIVET for labor management and labor utilization every day. Here are a few who want to share their experiences with you:
Xcel Mechanical Systems
For Xcel Mechanical Systems, RIVET is integrated with Viewpoint Spectrum to sync their workforce, project and work in progress data. Now, workforce data and personnel changes are managed in one place alongside forecasts and schedules. “I knew that we weren’t as efficient as we could be with scheduling manpower. I knew that we could become more profitable as a company with Workforce Management. We never had any Workforce Management software. It was done in spreadsheets so after seeing how RIVET worked, it was a no brainer. I was sold immediately on it. It’s a single source for manpower and personnel information.” — Kevin Michel, President
Quality Air Heating & Cooling Inc.
For Quality Air Heating & Cooling Inc., RIVET supports a new field leadership role. “Not only does it help us with our scheduling, but now we can also forecast, request manpower and delegate manpower and then also have all of our contact cards for all of our employees in one area. We no longer have to go to the file cabinet or rolodex. We only wish we had spreadsheets a couple of years ago to know where our guys were all at but now with RIVET we are on queue with going to the 21st century.” — Doug Hattan, Construction Field Manager
Video: The Tessier’s Mechanical Contractors operations teams considers the RIVET Platform mission critical for Labor Planning.
Explore FAQs
The RIVET platform centralizes many of your labor operations functions, making them accessible from virtually anywhere. It supports field operations workflows with Forecasting, Rostering, Scheduling, Dispatch and Reporting. To avoid redundant data entry, job and worker details can be easily imported from ERP and HRIS systems.
The Workforce Management Business Practice connects your People, Process and Technology to your Field Operations. We break it down into categories: Forecast, Roster, Schedule, Communication, Information and Productivity. Finally, we work with you on workflow mapping during implementation of the RIVET Platform.
Change is hard. If you already have a good labor management process then adding a platform this isn’t as hard as you think. If you don’t have good processes in place, it’s harder but it’s worth it. Ask yourself: why will this be hard in your business? We can help you with that part, too. Here are some best practices for tech adoption: https://www.rivet.work/portfolio/understanding-technology-adoption/
Labor coordinators are typically extremely stressed, and that’s usually because they don’t have the right tool. Without the right tech in place, the people and processes are obstructed. Liberate your labor planners from their spreadsheet prisons. You have a tool for every other department, why not for labor?
No. For perspective, most of our customers don’t have their field leaders using the platform. Instead, they are consuming information from RIVET that is sent to them. This will save them time because they see exactly who should be on the job site today and how to contact them if they didn’t show up.
It’s significantly more expensive than a RIVET platform subscription. We invest millions into our product every year so that we can provide subscriptions at a significant value for the construction industry. Finally, building your own platform is also distracting and takes time away from people that add value to your business otherwise.
RIVET actually buys time back for the contractors we work with. For example, we can take your weekly labor meeting from 2 hours to 20 minutes. That’s already a huge reason to change, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of value we can provide.
That’s an understandable dilemma. If you want to integrate RIVET with your ERP immediately, you might want to wait. However, there’s still value in having RIVET non-integrated. We can help you weigh the pros and cons of that.
The RIVET Platform does not measure Productivity. However, features like Labor Plans and Jobs Work in Progress can compare labor estimates to actuals. For the best results, consistently scheduling to the Forecast ensures these features are leveraged best.
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Mechanical labor challenges can be greatly reduced with the right software