Having an exit strategy is what sets up the next project’s success
Developing an exit strategy so your crew can come off a project on time is imperative to maintaining profitability.
“Finishing out a job strong is what helps us start the next one correctly,” Interstates Workforce Manager Andrew Aker said. “Being able to hit that ramp-down as we should is important.”
Kyle Sutter, director of construction at Westphal & Company agreed.
“There’s a lot of hard work to getting people off the job site,” he said. “The coming down is where money is saved on projects.”
To do this effectively, Westphal builds the last 25 percent of the job as an internal punch list, and Labor Plans every job in the RIVET Workforce Management platform. The former helps prevent Two Week Thomas from taking up residence on a project, eating up the detailing budget by perpetually creating a few weeks more of unplanned work to do.
The latter fosters buy-in from foremen, project managers and other company stakeholders. In turn, because everyone can see what the project schedule is and how a long tail on one job will impact the next project’s ramp-up.
“Having a good visualization of what’s happening allows [stakeholders] to be organized as the jobs come to a close,” Aker said.
Listen to the full discussion below.