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            Why Should Offshore Wind (OSW) Developers and General Contractors Work with a Staffing Intermediary?

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            Arthur Ransier, Director of Business Strategy at nTech Workforce, highlights this monumental opportunity for offshore wind investors and contractors, “Applying staffing & labor best practices, in partnership with a skilled General Contractor which is responsible for the day-to-day oversight and planning for construction, improves ROI by ensuring sufficient project management, a skilled workforce, enhancing safety, managing labor costs, and mitigating risks. Having the right people with the right skills in the right roles at the right time is tricky business; a staffing intermediary complements your general contractor by ensuring workers are appropriately trained & experienced, reducing downtime and increasing overall project efficiency. Bringing a staffing & labor intermediary on board means improving your ability to adapt & respond to the trickiest resource to manage – people.”

             

            HOW DO STAFFING INTERMEDIARIES DIFFERENTIATE FROM GENERAL CONTRACTORS?

             

            General Contractors deliver value through construction planning and day-to-day project oversight. Many have robust supply chain management teams responsible for direct & indirect categories, ordering supplies, and engaging vendors of all types to deliver within scope, schedule, and budget. However, a dedicated staffing intermediary is adept at building and managing workforces; a staffing intermediary brings decades of established relationships – spanning pre-apprenticeship programs in the nonprofit sector, workforce development agencies in the public sector, Union and Non-Union subcontractors, minority-owned businesses – which ultimately gives you access to a diverse workforce including millions of workers. Research shows that diverse companies outperform less diverse companies; a McKinsey study from 2014-2019 found that companies in the top quartile for cultural diversity were around 35% more profitable than those in the fourth quartile. 

            In offshore wind, where heavy upfront investments exist and an even greater demand for long-term ROI, diversity – and working with a staffing intermediary to achieve it – will pay dividends.

            How Do You Implement a Staffing & Labor Program for Offshore Wind (OSW) Projects?

             

            WHAT WILL A STAFFING INTERMEDIARY DO TO SUPPORT OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS?

             

            A staffing intermediary delivers a holistic managed staffing & labor solution which improves pathways into OSW jobs. Partnering with the general contractor and developer, the staffing intermediary is able to leverage planning data to project upcoming hiring needs (minimum 6 months out), share that knowledge with subcontractors, and connect them to workforce agencies & nonprofits which offer pre-apprenticeship programs. Ultimately, a staffing intermediary improves access to good-paying OSW jobs, provides standards and templates for subcontractors to provide ongoing training & development through apprenticeships, and builds a reliable talent pipeline for developers and general contractors to get work done by serving as a staffing & labor catalyst at a program-management level. If needed, the staffing intermediary can integrate a bespoke training program by engaging third parties.

             

            WHAT ARE THE DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES OF A STAFFING INTERMEDIARY?

             

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            A staffing intermediary is responsible for the strategy, management, and administration of the contingent workforce supply chain, which includes numerous tasks such as the following:

            • Sourcing contractors, subcontractors, and workers
            • Managing contracts and work orders
              • Enforcing flow-down provisions and negotiating remediation
            • Managing standard operating procedures and policies
              • Uniformity, consistency, and standardization for supplier relationships
            • Engaging suppliers
              • Measuring supplier performance with a balanced scorecard
              • Quarterly business reviews
              • Job/work order intake calls
              • Worker performance surveys and open dialogues
              • Monitor job category market data for changes (up or down) to rates
              • Negotiate supplier discounts for volume
              • Provide a greater opportunity for top-tier suppliers
            • Timekeeping & invoicing
              • Consolidated invoicing & standardized billing practices
              • Time entry management
              • Supervise systems integrations & review invoice accuracy
            • Optimizing workflows
              • Engage developer and GC to ensure adherence to business rules
              • Document developer & GC feedback to inform continual program improvement
              • Implement technology to reduce operational costs
            • Complying with mandates, statutes, and regulations
              • MBE goals
              • Audit compliance (rate card, background checks, data quality)

             

            WILL STAFFING INTERMEDIARIES ADD STRATEGIC VALUE? WHAT ARE SOME EXPECTED RESULTS?

             

            Your staffing intermediary has a lot to offer and will be able to go beyond the day-to-day tasks of administering technology for your organization’s staffing & labor needs. While specific service-level agreements will need to be discussed, and aligned with your needs, here are a few to get started:

            SUSTAINS LONG-TERM VALUE

            • Satisfactory performance survey scores
            • Continually improved worker retention on new assignments
            • Supply chain partner audit compliance

            ADDS GREATER EFFICIENCIES

            • Supply chain partner portfolio rate card compliance of (on average) 100%
            • Reliable integration between vendor management systems and invoicing systems
            • Timely supply chain partner payments
            • Average work order response time under three business days

            EASY FOR STAKEHOLDERS TO USE

            • Net promoter score (from the developer, general contractor, and supply chain partners)
            • Uptime of vendor management system (VMS)
            • Minority-owned business (MBE) participation

            In alignment with offshore wind goals to develop good-paying, local, and highly-skilled jobs in sustainable energy, nTech Workforce – through its Managed Staffing & Labor Services – offers developers a system for engaging staffing & labor supply chain partners which is (a) easy for stakeholders to use, (b) adds greater efficiencies, and (c) sustains long-term value. We expect to provide developers with a more resilient, adaptable, and reliable workforce, thereby improving long-term investment returns and growth opportunities.

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