The Company
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About Nox Group
Nox Group is a rapidly expanding construction and industrial firm that currently serves customers throughout the United States. Nox Group includes:
- Corbins, an industrial electrical contractor
- RMCI, an industrial general contractor
- Construction Labels, a total label and tagging fabricator
- Nox Group Innovations, which handles fabrication and virtual design
This unique structure lets Nox Group flex to serve each customer, whether they need self-perform electrical, general contracting, prefab, or a combination of all four. As Nox Group scaled over the past decade, the way they planned and deployed crews had to evolve to maximize flexibility and proactivity in resourcing across their projects.
The challengeÂ
Spreadsheets spread thin
Like many specialty contractors, Nox Group ran its manpower planning out of “a gross combination of Excel docs flying all over the enterprise,” as CIO Nate Unruh describes it. Support functions planned one way, field crews another, and none of it connected.
This approach held up while Nox Group was small, but broke down the moment they started winning bigger, more complex industrial work.
Excel docs work really well when you’re a small company. But the second you start getting hundreds of managers that need to identify needs, and those individuals are going over multiple geographies, it quickly becomes unscalable. We saw that as a big limiting factor.
The solution
A planning system built for the way trades work
Nox Group adopted Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2022 and experienced an early win by solving the exact problem spreadsheets couldn’t solve: getting assignments out of one superintendent’s head and into a system the whole team could see and act on.
Within eighteen months, Nox Group extended Â鶹´«Ã½ across the entire enterprise, using it to identify and fill every kind of role, from modelers to talent acquisition specialists. For the talent team, Â鶹´«Ã½ became the single pipeline they needed full visibility into at all times.
Crews built for large projects. With up to three hundred electricians on a single job, seeing them organized visually provides an important level of transparency. Â鶹´«Ã½ gives Nox Group a way to structure traveling crews, foreman-led crews, and site organization in one view.
Certification and license tracking. Manpower decisions at Nox Group aren’t just about availability; they’re about who’s qualified. Underground, low-voltage, and medium-voltage work each demands specific skill sets, and equipment operators are a small, critical subset of the team. Electrical licensing adds another layer, because requirements differ in every state.
“Licensing can get complicated across state lines, since electrical licensing is different for every state. Â鶹´«Ã½ helps the team identify those differences and still move people with confidence, without having to go into another system to look that information up.”
Bulk edits that keep up with ambiguity. As a trade contractor, Corbins (the industrial electrical contractor within Nox Group) lives with constant schedule changes driven by the GCs and partners it works alongside. Rather than plan too far out, the team keeps the next six weeks accurate and adjusts as new schedules arrive — usually by bulk-shifting dates across many roles at once. Â鶹´«Ã½’s bulk-edit capabilities let the team absorb those changes quickly instead of reworking plans by hand.
The impact
Betting on better crew planning
For Nox Group, the payoff shows up in the ability to efficiently plan for massive, high-quality projects. Â鶹´«Ã½ gives Nox Group a shared system where field crews, project leadership, and support functions all plan together instead of depending on a single point of failure.
When you get to that level of scale, it can no longer be one person holding the whole ship together. It’s got to be a collaboration of people — and they need a system they can collaborate in. That’s how the team uses Â鶹´«Ã½: it’s a collaboration manpower planning tool.
Staying ahead of labor challenges. Skilled electrical labor is hard to find, and Nox Group uses better planning to stay in front of it. Visibility into staffing gaps lets leadership flag understaffed jobs early and direct extra support where it’s needed. That same view feeds Nox Group’s talent development—keeping the bench full of future promotions so the company can grow its own leaders, not just hire them.
“Even just having visibility to a gap is a really powerful thing. Whenever we have more time, we’re able to be more successful. It’s important for us to fill those gaps with intentional talent acquisition—and talent development—efforts in our organization.”
Looking ahead
The next chapter: AI in specialty workforce planning
Nox Group is already pushing forward to what’s next. Using Â鶹´«Ã½’s MCP connector, the team has begun querying Â鶹´«Ã½ data with its own internal AI models.
Our users are already able to ask natural language questions about the data in Â鶹´«Ã½ and get answers faster than actually going into the platform. That’s changed the game for our team. Individuals who are more consumers of that information can access it and ask questions much more easily.
For Nox Group, a well-built semantic model over the data is now part of how it evaluates technology partners, because it saves the team from building that intelligence themselves. Combined with features like AI-generated org charts, it’s the next step in a journey that started half a decade ago.
Asked whether he’d recommend Â鶹´«Ã½ to a peer, Unruh doesn’t hesitate:
“Absolutely. Our business could not have scaled without this tool. From a talent management and manpower standpoint, there is no better solution out there for visualizing and improving that discipline with your teams—for the current and the future.”
Our users are already able to ask natural language questions about the data in Â鶹´«Ã½ and get answers faster than actually going into the platform. That’s changed the game for our team. Individuals who are more consumers of that information can access it and ask questions much more easily.
