As an MEP contractor, labor is your biggest risk, and your greatest opportunity.
Reactive, fragmented, and chaotic labor planning is impacting field labor productivity and eroding margins.
Trusted by over 150 MEP contractors
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Labor planning chaos is a vicious cycle, but it isn't a necessary evil.
We've helped hundreds of contractors build labor planning process into their business, creating greater visibility and preventing labor productivity killers that cause margin erosion.
Overmanning
More workers, less productivity. The data doesn't lie. If you can spot it coming, you can mitigate the productivity impact.
Excessive Overtime
More money per hour for less productivity per hour. Reactive scheduling forces expensive overtime when projects fall behind. Lack of visibility creates situations where jobs are running overtime the week before a layoff.
Schedule Compression
When you can't predict the future, you are probably compressing yourself. Ramping up a job behind plan when the end-date is fixed results in a higher labor peak, requires more supervision, leads to overmanning, higher turnover, trade stacking, and excessive overtime.
Scheduling to the Wall
Scheduling every worker to the end of the job. Never the intent, but without an end-date on assignments work expands to fill time, and this "plan" becomes your reality.
Job Turnover
When a worker joins a jobsite, there is a learning curve to becoming productive. When turnover on a job exceeds a healthy level, learning curve impacts start to compound and hit productivity.
Everything you need to consolidate your labor planning and control the chaos
Workforce Forecasting
Predict future labor demand. No more guessing — see exactly when and where you'll need workers whether 4 weeks, 6 months, or 2+ years out.
Schedule & Dispatch
Coordinate your entire workforce from one dashboard. Send assignments via SMS and track real-time availability. No more phone tag.
Productivity Analytics
Compare actual hours vs. planned vs. budget. Gain insights into WHY projected hours at completion changed and improve job outcomes. Turn gut feel into data-driven decisions.
Integrations
Pull job budgets and worker data directly from your existing systems. No double data entry required. Your current tools work better with RIVET.
Labor is a team effort, and with RIVET everyone wins.
Leadership
RIVET helps you manage your backlog against your capacity to perform work, enabling your organization to see further into the future, and run where you are most profitable. Never again be surprised by the need for layoffs after a big job ends knowing you'll need those workers back for the next one.
See peaks and troughs in labor demand across your organization
Bid the right work when you have capacity to perform the work profitably
Receive early warning signs for labor overruns
Establish records of labor projections for compression claims and change orders
See plan vs actual for labor on projects in real-time*
Labor Operations
Get precise forecasting and proactive resource balancing across all your projects. No more surprise overruns or delays from not having the right workers when you need them.
Transfer workers with a few clicks
See baseball cards for every worker
Gain visibility into cross-project labor availability
Manage your labor requests and forecasted needs in one place
Communicate to the field without building text message groups
Field Leaders
Know who to expect each day, get alerted when plans change, and eliminate constantly changing text-message groups.
View the job roster on your phone or tablet.
Request labor with a few clicks and track their status.
Communicate with the crew with a few clicks.
Baseball cards for every worker at your fingertips that include skills, certifications, and more
Collaborate with PMs and Superintendents on labor requirements and lookaheads.
Project Managers
Build labor plans in minutes. Get early warning signs of compression and other productivity killers. Arm yourself with the data you need for change orders and claims.
Automatically build forcasts based on industry standards
Compare how the labor plan changed over time due to change-orders or compression
Cross-project resource visibility
Early warning alerts for potential overruns
Budget vs. actual tracking in real-time
Safety Managers
Get safety information into the hands of the people who need it. Get alerted when certifications, safety trainings, and badge access is going to expire.
Track trainings and certifications
Automatic notification of pending certification expirations
Integrate with LMS or other source of training truth
Get important safety information into the hands of the operations and field teams
Plan for absence due to trainings and school
Preconstruction / Get work team
See how labor capacity stacks up for both commited work and pursuits/bids, prove your ability to staff a project to increase your hit rate.
Build labor projections for bids
See gaps in future work to strategically bid work
Cross-project resource visibility
Early warning alerts for potential overruns
Integration with existing project schedules
Trusted by specialty contractors nationwide
From spreadsheet chaos to workforce control
We believe software is a tool to make adopting and executing process easier. Workforce management at its core is about People, Process, and Technology. At RIVET we start with process, and finish with the technology.
Workflow mapping
We start with the current business process. Our team will create workflow process maps for each of your existing workforce management and labor planning processes, before together defining end state processes that support your goals for planning and workforce management.
Data
Our data team works with your internal or external IT or data team to map data flows from your people, projects, and pursuits systems of record into RIVET. If integrating we will set up your environment so that your people are training on your own data.
Training
Last we train your team against the people-process-technology workflow maps we defined together in step 1 to achieve your business objectives. We focus by team (field operations, project management, safety, preconstruction, etc) to achieve a targeted go-live date.
FAQs
Find answers to common questions about RIVET’s workforce management solutions and features.
RIVET connects directly with Spectrum, Vista, Viewpoint, Foundation, Sage, COINs, CMIC, and other major construction ERPs through pre-built integrations. We automatically sync job budgets, schedules, and worker data, eliminating double data entry. Most integrations are completed within 1-2 weeks during implementation.
RIVET is designed for construction operations teams, not tech experts. We've helped many superintendents near retirement giving them hours in the day back. Hands-on white glove training with real people ensures your team will always get the support they need.
Most contractors see immediate task-based time savings in scheduling within the first few months. Labor planning impacts and reduction in margin fade from productivity killers takes longer to show up in the numbers, but you will feel the difference.
Most contractors using RIVET have more than 50 field employees performing construction work. We work with some of the largest contractors in the country, planning and scheduling thousands of field personnel. If you're currently managing workforce scheduling with spreadsheets, whiteboards, or phone calls, and have multiple projects running simultaneously, RIVET is for you.
Your data belongs to you. RIVET provides complete data export capabilities in standard formats, and we'll work with you to ensure a smooth transition if you decide to leave.
RIVET was purpose built for electrical and mechanical contractors, and is based on the workforce management best practices of the most successful MEP contractors. RIVET is an active partner with NECA, SMACNA, and construction research organizations like ELECTRI, supporting their standards, SOPs, and best practices in our platform and in our trainings. RIVET is focused exclusively on making labor operations efficient rather than trying to solve every construction problem. While we started by serving MEP, RIVET also has tremendous value for other contracting business' self-performing interior trades on vertical construction projects.
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