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How a Pay-As-You-Go Workforce Model Saves Utilities Millions

How a Pay-As-You-Go Workforce Model Saves Utilities Millions

The Smarter, Faster Way to Build a High-Performance Utilities Project Workforce

Every utilities leader knows the pressure.

The deadline is non-negotiable. The budget is shrinking. The site is complex, the logistics tighter than ever, and everyone—from regulators to residents—is watching.

What keeps projects alive or kills them isn’t always strategy or funding—it’s execution. And the biggest variable in execution? The people doing the work.

But here’s the problem: most utilities are still staffing for projects like it’s the 1990s—loading up the payroll upfront, guessing at demand, and hoping things don’t change midstream.

They always do.

That’s why more utilities are moving toward a smarter model: a pay-as-you-go workforce. It’s fast. It’s flexible. And when done right, it can save millions in wasted labor, delays, and missed opportunities.

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Automation in Material Handling: Opportunities and Challenges for Large-Scale Projects

Automation in Material Handling: Opportunities and Challenges for Large-Scale Projects

 What Utility Leaders Must Understand About AGVs, ASRS, and the Next Era of Materials Management

There’s a moment on every large-scale infrastructure project when progress stalls—and no one can quite pinpoint why.

The engineering is sound. The permits are in place. The budget is approved.

But somewhere between the warehouse and the jobsite, between the spreadsheet and the delivery dock, something breaks down.

It’s almost never one big thing. It’s the slow drag of inefficiency. It’s a missing pallet of parts. A delivery that didn’t make it. An update that wasn’t shared. A team waiting around—burning money.

And at the center of it all? Material handling.

For utility leaders, this is no longer a side conversation. As the complexity of infrastructure grows, so does the pressure to modernize how we move, track, and manage the physical components of every project.

The opportunity is massive—but so are the challenges.

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The Future of Materials Management: What Utilities Leaders Need to Know

The Future of Materials Management: What Utilities Leaders Need to Know

There’s a silent killer of major infrastructure projects.

It’s not bad engineering. It’s not permitting delays. It’s not even budget overruns—those are the symptoms.

The real threat? Broken materials management.

The wrong part delivered to the wrong site. Supplies arriving a week late. A key component sitting in a warehouse five miles away—while the crew stands around waiting, burning labor hours. It’s death by a thousand cuts. And it’s more common than you’d think.

For leaders in the utilities space—where timelines are tight, stakes are high, and every dollar is accounted for—materials management isn’t just a back-office function anymore. It’s a strategic weapon… or a hidden liability.

If you want to keep your projects on time and on budget, you need to understand the seismic shifts happening in how we move, store, and track materials. Because the rules have changed. And those who don’t adapt will pay for it—slowly, painfully, and publicly.

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Transmission Distribution Project Manager

Company Name: ONTRAXSYS
Location: Indianapolis, IN and/or Dayton, OH
Area: ONTRAXSYS Project Support

Long term contract transmission distribution project management position beginning in January 2021. The positions will offer you the opportunity to manage the execution of multiple transmission, substation and distribution projects. This is a remote/virtual position to start, but will eventually transition to be based in Indianapolis, Indiana or Dayton, Ohio.

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