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 you’re going to increase your project’s margins or watch profits fade. Sometimes you’ll get lucky and can talk to the general contractor or owner and find out why the job is suddenly delayed, move some labor around to accommodate and be on your way.
That’s a best-case scenario, and, in construction, you can’t always count on those. Typically, moving labor from one job causes a snowball effect where other projects won’t get what’s needed because it’s been allocated elsewhere.
“Depending on the magnitude [of changes] and where you are in your workload at that time, that can have a tremendous effect” on Productivity, RIVET Implementations Manager Dustin Acker said.
When you Labor Plan every job with a Workforce Management platform built for specialty contractors, you can see these issues and address them before they become bigger burdens.
“It’s construction, you still have to get the project done and find the best way to solve the problem,” Acker said.
RIVET’s near-term labor planning helps you make revisions to your Labor Plan. As you make changes, RIVET automatically recommends new classifications and durations to satisfy the project’s needs. You can see the areas where you’re under-forecasted and adjust project end dates to accommodate, and spot how labor transfers may impact other jobs in progress and pursuit.
Contractors consistently tell us that these situations could be overcome with better near-term Labor Planning on their projects. So we put together this latest training webinar with Acker and RIVET Co-founder and Director of Product Louis Gelinas to help contractors learn how to do this in RIVET.
They walked through RIVET workflows for:
1. Project-level labor projections and initial plans
2. Ramping up your awarded jobs
3. Identifying new needs and requests from existing projects
4. Ramping down
If you missed the live webinar, access the full recording and the detailed synopsis here:
We’re hosting these educational webinars every other week, and we’ll cover topics including:
- Pursuit Labor Forecasting & Backlog Management
- Field Scheduling & Dispatching
- Rostering and Certification Management
- Integrating Productivity Insights
- Configuring Organization Groups
Join us October 2 at 2 P.M. Eastern for our next discussion, all about Field Scheduling & Dispatching.