Every foreman knows that time is hard to come by. Keeping that overworked foreman front of mind, HeavyJob’s app HCSS Field was carefully crafted to offer numerous benefits when used directly on jobsites. With its abundance of powerful features, any company looking to make their work easier – and better – should consider exploring HeavyJob as a heavy civil construction tool.
Review these 4 features and benefits of the software that can significantly boost your field operations.
1. Easy Entry for Time Cards, Diaries, and Photos
As a field-friendly app, HCSS Field makes it simple to log data quickly and accurately in real time. With crew and job details available at the tap of a finger, entering information for time cards, diaries, and photos is a breeze.
Imagine the typical Friday routine of gathering a stack of physical time cards, hoping none are lost or illegible. If a single card is missed or entered incorrectly, the whole crew might face delays in getting paid. With HeavyJob and HCSS Field, this cumbersome process is a thing of the past. Now, everything is communicated seamlessly to the office in an instant, all stored neatly in one place on your tablet. It’s a simple change that saves time and eliminates the headaches of paper-based processes.
Not only does HeavyJob and HCSS Field eliminate the complications of a paper process, but its straightforward setup makes it simple to collect more information than just crew hours. Foreman can capture weather delays or subcontractor issues with tags, which flow into HeavyJob’s reporting. They can also easily track additional costs such as per diem, using cost adjustments. These added pieces of information are instrumental in truly having a pulse on your projects and making sure all your costs are captured.
In addition to the user-friendly tablet interface, there are dozens more tricks in HCSS Field to save time, such as mass entry. Select multiple employees who worked the same amount of time and input the hours all at once. It’s intuitive and efficient, making it a natural tool for a foreman to add to their toolbelt.
2. Get Access to Instant Insight
Not only are time cards made easy with HCSS Field, but so is job analysis. Superintendents and project managers no longer need to wait to get to their laptops to see their project’s performance, but within the app they can quickly get an idea of how things are going. With easy-to-view job performance graphics, field management can use their iPad or tablet on the jobsite to take what has been installed and connect it to the financial snapshot viewed in the Job Analysis feature.
For reviewing day-to-day operations, managers can even review their foreman's time cards from their iPad, helping the time card review process meet the needs of project managers, no matter where they work.
These insights are not limited to the field management responsible for financial progress. HCSS Field empowers foreman and crew leaders with features like Time Card Analysis. This feature essentially shows how you as a foreman – along with your crew – have performed, including how you’re doing on hours and what you actually spent based on the set budget.
When looking at labor hours in the Time Card Analysis, crew leaders can see if they’re on track or off track, and by how much, which is especially helpful. This enables them to make the appropriate changes to try to close the gaps, if there are any.
3. Plan Ahead Effortlessly
With HCSS Field, reviewing work retroactively isn’t the only benefit; you can also plan in advance by trying out different what-if scenarios directly in the mobile app. This is another terrific ability that can ensure you meet production goals.
Through a powerful feature called Production Planner, a foreman can plan their work for the coming days and/or weeks, assigning crews according to how the work needs to be distributed. Looking forward and identifying your plan, you can more accurately predict whether or not you’re going to be on track.
4. Connect to the Full HCSS Platform
HeavyJob and HCSS Field are powerful pieces of an even more powerful suite of products. With the HCSS platform being an all-encompassing solution, HeavyJob connects to HCSS Safety, Equipment360, Telematics, FuelerPlus, Dispatcher, and HCSS Plans.
For example, with both HeavyJob and HCSS Safety, foremen can just tap on any employee’s time card and immediately see what skills that employee has to make sure they’ve got the right person doing the right work. Another key integration between the two programs is receiving warnings in HCSS Field when a job is missing a JHA. This serves as a reminder for foremen when they forget to do certain paperwork.
With HCSS Plans, you can create an Issue and locate it on the Plans sheet; then, when using HCSS Field as your field app, that issue will appear in its current state. With HCSS Telematics, it’s a cinch to pull meter readings into HeavyJob, which can reduce double entry, help verify usage hours, and generate accurate equipment time for more pinpoint reporting.
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