How Miter Helps MJ Mechanical Simplify Payroll and Field Operations for 300+ Employees

Chad Anselmo:

We purchased MJ Mechanical February 9th of 2024. 

A great founder, great company, had a great quality of product, well-respected within the community, really liked what the company was doing, it had great growth trajectory. 

 

Josh Churchill:

MJ Mechanical does all commercial plumbing, anything from skyrises to HEBs, we build a lot of schools and hotels. 

Right now we have a little over 300 employees between Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. 

 

Chad Anselmo:

When we first purchased the company about a year and a half ago, they had about 175 employees. So as you can see, we have almost 2X the company. 

 

Josh Churchill:

There’s a lot of times our team has stayed up until midnight trying to get checks printed. It wasn’t a good process. 

 

Chad Anselmo:

I think on one payroll run, we had a third of our people not even paid, and at that point you realize this is not a recipe going forward. 

We use Miter for all employees for time tracking. We also use it for payroll solutions. 

We use it for the integration into our financial software, and then we use it for reporting. Miter works well with construction-related companies. 

 

Josh Churchill:

Just functionality. Miter does what it says, and it’s very easy to use. 

 

Chad Anselmo:

The most impactful thing about Miter is trimming down the amount of time to do payroll. 

 

Josh Churchill:

It allows us to move and do things a certain way to make sure that our guys are paid and they’re happy. 

The field team transitioned very well to Miter. We do got a lot of guys that are not technology-savvy, and it’s been seamless for them to just be able to clock in very easily, and keeping them on the right job, clocking into the right place works. 

It just allows me to see how many guys I have on each site, who’s clocked in at the moment. 

That way I can justify having that many, or if I need to move guys around to different projects just so I can stay on budget. 

It’s great with the geo-fencing. I can put a block around the job site that will not let you clock in or out more than a mile away. I mean, it really showed guys that were driving home before they would clock out, that stopped very quickly.

 

Chad Anselmo:

I like the Miter reporting. I’m able to drill down and be able to quickly see if we had a problem working overtime in various jobs. 

Using Miter to job cost is really helpful because we’re able to take all the hours as well as all the costs and put them into the job so that we can drill down and be able to see where in the job it’s costing us the most money. 

We’d have to use Excel to be able to put all the different time buckets into various jobs, and now with Miter that all just happens automatically. 

We heard about Miter because we were integrating with Sage Intact. We not only use Miter in MJ Mechanics, but we started implementing it throughout our portfolio and our portfolio companies. 

I would recommend Miter. 

 

Josh Churchill:

I would definitely recommend Miter. It can save you a lot of money.