Based in Tampa, FL, Spartan Contracting Co. is a full-service general contractor with expertise in commercial construction and property maintenance, pre-construction, design-build, and green building. Their philosophy is simple yet powerful; do a good job, do it the right way, and do it on time.

With offices in Georgia and across the state of Florida, Spartan is always looking for ways to be more efficient with their planning and more effective with their people. This includes a better understanding of how project opportunities and bids will impact their team. This led Spartan President and CEO, Scott Kramer, to inquire about integrating Bridgit Bench with their CRM tool, Salesforce.

First and foremost, the team at Spartan uses Bridgit Bench to allocate their superintendents, project managers, accounting managers, estimators, etc. “We can quickly see who’s on what job, how long they are there for, and when they’re going to be available,” explained Kramer. “If a client wants to start a job on a specific date, we can see who’s going to be available to do it. It’s made us smarter with how we’re staffing our active and upcoming projects.”

The team at Spartan also uses Bridgit Bench to balance work across multiple offices. “North Florida has been extremely busy for us,” said Kramer, “We’ve started pulling available project managers from Georgia and South Florida to relieve some of the burdens on the North Florida team.”

Kramer has also started using the forecasting dashboard to understand upcoming project needs. “We have 21 superintendents, so we can do 21 jobs at a time,” said Kramer, “We’re not going to get every job that we’re pursuing, but if we’ve got 5-10 jobs awarded first and another 50 we’re pursuing, we know we’ll need more help.” 

The ability to look up to 5 years into the future helps Spartan build a more inclusive and robust strategy for organizational growth. It helps business development and marketing teams know which projects to bid on and when because they know who’s going to be available and when. It gives HR a longer runway to find great talent. With a labor shortage as bad as the one this industry is facing, giving the HR team a heads up months in advance could lead to much stronger hires rather than the last minute scrambles that are all too common in construction.

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