October 29, 2024
1:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM CT / 10:00 AM PT / 6:00 PM GMT
Duration: 1 hour
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Summary
More than ever, labor productivity is a critical strategic priority for electrical contractors, as our industry faces long-term labor supply challenges and a growing demand for electrical construction services.
Top-tier contractors are investing in continuous improvement initiatives to drive productivity and profitability in their businesses. One of the central themes is developing an organizational culture that prioritizes the needs of the field, and embedding that thinking into company structure, processes and systems. Electrical contractors get paid for one thing – putting work in place. A contractor’s business practices should be oriented accordingly – toward the men and women in the field who make putting work in place happen.
In this webinar, Tyler Paré, performance practice leader at FMI, reviews practical processes electrical contractors can incorporate into their planning to drive productivity and enhance operations, including:
- Project selection: Choosing the right projects that have a high probability of success.
- Estimate reviews: Accurately estimating the work, with necessary field input.
- Pre-job planning: Setting the project up for success prior to mobilization, with field leaders having a seat at the planning table.
- Look-ahead planning: Field-leader-led resource coordination.
- Site logistics planning: Eliminating the most common labor wastes on jobsites.
- Daily huddles: Setting daily production goals with crews.
- Labor productivity tracking and feedback (earned value): Regularly sharing with crews ‘the score on the scoreboard’.
By implementing these practices, electrical contractors can increase labor productivity by up to 10% and potentially double their bottom-line profit margins!
Speakers
Tyler Paré
Partner
FMI
Tyler Paré leads FMI’s Performance practice, which helps contractors optimize profitability and manage risks. His team focuses on the major performance drivers for contractor organizations – operations, risk management, compensation and technology – helping client organizations secure and execute work profitably, pay and incentivize people effectively, and collaborate and share information efficiently.
As a consultant with FMI, Tyler leverages his construction experience and business knowledge to assist contractor clients in implementing work acquisition and project execution best practices in support of competitive strategy.
Tyler also facilitates contractor executive peer groups, which bring construction industry leaders together to collaborate and learn from each other.
Thomas Chrysler
Area Sales and Product Marketing Manager
ABB
Thomas has over 15 years of product marketing, business development and product management experience in the electrification industry. He has experience in the US, Canadian and European markets.
Thomas joined ABB in February 2021 as the Product Marketing Manager for Safety Switches and Disconnect Switches. Currently an Area Sales & Product Marketing Manager, his team is responsible for OEM and Merchandised Switchboards and Panelboards along with Safety Switches.
He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University.
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