Workforce Management for Electrical Contractors

Labor is your biggest risk, and reactive workforce management is impacting your field productivity and eroding your margins. RIVET gives electrical contractors the visibility and control to forecast demand, optimize scheduling, and protect project profitability.

Used by the nation’s leading General Contractors

Built for Electrical Contractors, By People Who Understand Your Business

Electrical contractors face unique workforce challenges—single-trade specialization, project-length commitments, and tight margin pressures. RIVET was designed specifically for the electrical industry, with features that match how you actually work and scale profitably.

What Electrical Contractors Struggle With

  • Reactive workforce planning: Scrambling to staff projects without visibility into future labor demand across your portfolio
  • Fragmented scheduling processes: Manual coordination that creates gaps, delays, and miscommunication with field teams
  • Limited productivity visibility: No clear view of actual vs. planned performance to improve future project estimates
  • Margin erosion from poor allocation: Overstaffing or understaffing projects due to lack of real-time workforce intelligence

What Electrical Contractors Can Do with RIVET

  • Forecast workforce needs 2+ years out: Predict exactly when and where you'll need electricians with automated labor curves
  • Optimize crew scheduling: Bulk assign workers across multiple jobs with real-time conflict resolution and availability tracking
  • Maximize field productivity: Monitor actual hours vs. planned to identify efficiency opportunities and improve estimates
  • Protect project margins: Real-time visibility prevents overstaffing and ensures optimal resource allocation across all jobs

Watch RIVET’s CEO explains how Labor Planning improves Labor Productivity.

Integrations

Everything Electrical Contractors Need in One Platform

Stop juggling spreadsheets, whiteboards, and phone calls. RIVET integrates workforce forecasting, crew scheduling, automated dispatch, and productivity tracking so electrical contractors can manage their entire operation from one dashboard — whether you're running 50 electricians or 500.

Quickly build labor plans for every project and see how many hours (and dollars) you’re committing — before the first crew boots up. Know where you stand at every phase.

Assign the right workers to the right jobs based on skill, location, and availability. Prevent overstaffing or costly downtime by seeing exactly who you need and when.

See all upcoming project needs and worker availability in one place. Easily schedule crews weeks ahead, avoid last-minute scrambles, and keep your projects properly staffed without blowing the budget. With RIVET, labor scheduling becomes a strategic advantage, not a daily headache.

Keep your crews aligned and your projects moving. Rivet makes it easy to send real-time updates, schedule changes, and crew assignments directly to the field. No more confusion, missed messages, or wasted trips — just clear communication that keeps labor on track and projects profitable.

Get a clear view of your workforce and projects with Rivet’s labor insights. See people and jobs on a live map, monitor job progress alongside open roles and requests, and use lookahead reports to anticipate workforce needs before they impact profits.

Integrations

Connect the Systems You Rely On

RIVET integrates with your key systems to keep data flowing and accurate. Bring together people, project, certification, and work-in-progress (WIP) data — so you can plan, manage and forecast without missing a beat. Fewer gaps, fewer errors, better profits.

Vista

Cloud & on-premise

Spectrum

Cloud & on-premise

Foundation

Cloud & on-premise

Sage 300

Cloud & on-premise

SFTP

API Access Key

People & Projects

People, Projects, Certs

People, Projects, WIP

People, Projects, Certs, WIP

Video: Steven Drouin, VP of Technology at Interstate Electrical Services, discusses adding the RIVET Platform to his tech stack.

Trusted by leading electrical contractors to keep projects profitable and crews productive.

Electrical Contractors use RIVET for labor management and labor utilization every day. Here are a few who want to share their experiences with you:

“We know what gaps we have to fill in with work. We know if we’re getting strung out or overloaded. We’ll schedule out two years depending on what work we have in our backlog.”

Dan Zurawik
President, Westphal & Co. Inc.

“We manage the state of California with a lot of unions, and they all ask for labor differently. Now with RIVET, it’s consistent.”

David Pelayo
Director of HR & Technology, CSI Electrical Contractors

FAQs

Still have questions? Feel free to reach our team for better response.

How does RIVET integrate with my existing ERP system?

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.

What if my team isn't tech-savvy? How hard is it to learn?

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.

How quickly will we see results after implementing RIVET?

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.

Will RIVET work for my size company?

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.

What happens to our data if we decide RIVET isn't right for us?

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.

How is RIVET different from using scheduling modules in Procore or other construction software?

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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