Contractor Background

Titan Structural Group is a multi-trade contractor operating across Virginia and neighboring states, supporting large-scale infrastructure and federal projects. Their portfolio includes Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, DCU Center, Norfolk Naval Air Station, Newport News Naval Air Facility, and other Navy facilities.

Titan’s work spans multiple trades and union locals (including Local 7, Local 28, and DC51), with crews ranging from just a few workers to more than 40 on a single project. Every job demands strict certified payroll reporting, precise union wage compliance, and clear visibility into labor costs.

As Titan expanded, back-office complexity grew just as quickly.

The Challenge

Before Trayd, payroll and reporting were largely manual, consuming significant time and creating operational friction.

A typical week required:

  • ~20 hours compiling reports

  • ~20+ hours running payroll

  • Multiple reports and payroll workflows stitched together by hand

  • Limited visibility into job-level labor costs

  • Difficult tracking across states, trades, and union locals

Payroll became both the control point and the bottleneck.

With labor representing the majority of back-office spend, delayed and fragmented data made it difficult to understand project performance and nearly impossible to make proactive decisions.

Titan needed a system that could:

  • Support certified payroll across unions and states

  • Centralize reporting and compliance

  • Improve job-level tracking

  • Eliminate manual processes

  • Scale with increasingly complex projects

The Solution

Titan implemented Trayd to replace spreadsheets and disconnected tools, consolidating payroll, compliance, and reporting into a single system.

With Trayd, Titan centralized:

  • Payroll and certified reporting

  • Worker data and union compliance

  • Project-level labor tracking

Field time flows directly into payroll. Payroll flows directly into reports. No rework, no manual stitching.

Instead of assembling multiple reports each week, Titan now runs payroll and generates certified reports directly from Trayd, with labor data automatically mapped to the correct jobs, workers, and pay types.

The Results

The operational impact was immediate. What previously required more than 40 hours per week across payroll and reporting now takes approximately one hour.

Titan gained:

  • Simplified tracking across multi-state, multi-trade projects

  • Real-time visibility into labor costs

  • Faster certified payroll generation

  • Cleaner compliance across six union locals

Trayd also unlocked deeper insight into:

  • Revenue by project

  • Labor movement and allocation

  • Worker-level task breakdowns

  • Job performance while work is still in progress

Instead of reacting after payroll closes, Titan can now identify issues early and adjust in real time.

To learn more about Titan Structural, visit them at https://titanstructuralgroup.com/