Workforce Management for Mechnical Contractors
Labor is your biggest risk, and reactive workforce management across multiple trades is impacting your field productivity and eroding your margins. RIVET gives mechanical contractors the visibility and control to coordinate HVAC, plumbing, and sheet metal crews while protecting project profitability.

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Built for Mechanical Contractors, By People Who Understand Your Business
Mechanical contractors juggle HVAC, plumbing, and sheet metal crews across projects with different timing requirements and skill demands. RIVET was designed to handle the unique coordination challenges of multi-trade contractors, with features that match how you actually manage diverse specialties and intermittent project schedules.
What mechanical contractors struggle With
- Multi-trade coordination: Managing HVAC , pipe, plumbing, and sheet metal crews across projects with different timing requirements
- Intermittent project scheduling: Coming on and off jobs as needed while maintaining crew utilization and avoiding downtime
- Fragmented skill management: Tracking certifications and specialized skills across multiple trades without centralized visibility
- Resource allocation across trades: Optimizing crew composition when projects require different combinations of mechanical specialties
What mechanical contractors can do with RIVET
- Coordinate multiple trades seamlessly: Manage HVAC, plumbing, and sheet metal crews from one platform with trade-specific scheduling
- Flattern the curve and maximize your workforce: See exactly when each trade is needed across all jobs to maximize utilization
- Track skills and certifications centrally: Maintain complete visibility of worker qualifications across all mechanical specialties
- Balance multi-trade resource demands: Allocate the right mix of specialists to each project based on real-time capacity analysis
Integrations
Multi-Trade Management in One Platform
Coordinate HVAC technicians, pipefitters, and sheet metal workers seamlessly. RIVET's platform accounts for the different skill sets, certifications, and scheduling patterns across mechanical trades, giving you the tools to optimize crew composition and project timing across your entire operation.
Build labor plans you can trust for every trade on every project. Estimate hours, costs and staffing needs upfront for piping, plumbing, HVAC, sheet metal and fire protection crews.
Assign the right workers to the right jobs based on skills, certifications, and project needs across all your trades. Prevent overstaffing, under-staffing, and costly downtime company-wide.
See upcoming demands for all of your teams in one place. Staff weeks ahead, avoid gaps and overages, and keep your crews where they’re needed most.
Send real-time updates, job changes, and crew assignments directly to the field across all trades. Eliminate confusion, reduce rework and keep projects moving without delay.
Monitor job progress, open positions, and upcoming workforce needs across all your mechanical disciplines—all in one dashboard—to stay ahead of risks and protect your margins.
Integrations
Integrate key systems to manage labor seamlessly.
Connect RIVET with your ERP, HRIS and accounting systems. Centralize multi-trade labor data for fewer gaps, better insights and tighter financial control.c
Vista
Cloud & on-premise
Spectrum
Cloud & on-premise
Foundation
Cloud & on-premise
Sage 300
Cloud & on-premise
SFTP
API Access Key
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Video: The Tessier’s Mechanical Contractors operations teams considers the RIVET Platform mission critical for Labor Planning.
Trusted by leading mechanical contractors to keep projects profitable and crews productive.
Mechanical Contractors use RIVET for labor management and labor utilization every day. Here are a few who want to share their experiences with you:
“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.”

“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.”

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