HCSS’s job costing software isn’t just for project managers and crew leaders. The list below outlines just a few ways the software can impact roles throughout your company.
Owners/Executives
- Always know if you are making or losing money on each job so you can protect your bottom line.
- Avoid claims or other legal issues with diary information and photos collected with HeavyJob.
- Win more jobs by building more accurate bids using production history.
- Know that your job management processes are maximizing your employees’ efficiencies.
Estimators
- Show foremen what estimators were thinking when preparing the estimate.
- Improve communication between estimators and foremen to avoid errors and disagreements.
- Use actual HeavyJob production data to create more accurate estimates.
- Copy HeavyJob production data into bid notes to support estimates.
Foremen/Crew Leads
- Enter and submit time cards and field data in a fraction of the time.
- See what the estimator was thinking when the estimate was created.
- Identify problems quickly in the field and work on fixing them immediately.
- Plan ahead for tomorrow and see how you’ll do against production.
- Arm foremen with important information to turn them into true knowledge workers or managers.
- Study productions daily and use what-if scenarios to improve performance.
Project Managers
- Import budget from HeavyBid directly into HeavyJob for easy setup and consistent codes.
- Provide job feedback to management within a day to allow them to react quickly.
- Get better, more in-depth field information to keep the job on track.
- Stay on top of quantities every day.
- See what the field is doing in detail on a daily basis.
- Manage jobs without actually being onsite all the time.
- Substantiate extra work that would have been difficult in the past.
- Track and get paid for T&M work and owner/subcontractor billings more easily.
- Avoid claims or other legal issues with diary information and photos collected with HeavyJob.
- Improve the quality of supporting documents, dramatically reduce the amount of document storage space, and retrieve documentation more quickly.
Accounting/Payroll
- Virtually eliminate manual payroll data entry.
- Reduced payroll processing from days to hours.
- Dramatically reduce payroll errors.
