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Construction Sites and Their Need
to Adopt Mobile Technology
In 2015 McKinsey published their technology
& digitisation adoption report for different
industries across the US. The construction
industry took second last place with almost
no adoption of technology – only just above
the agriculture sector. Since then, a lot has
changed, especially for mobile. Smartphone
adoption has increased, 4G internet coverage
has spread, and technology on site has
started to become the norm.
To date, many contractors are working with
high-end project management, design and
architecture systems. However, operations
remains the cumbersome process it has
always been, slowed down by manual
processes, paperwork and spreadsheets.
Construction contractors are struggling with
scheduling compliant workers to the right
equipment on site.
Communication lines between the office
and worksites are messy. Job scheduling
& dispatch, timesheets, safety forms,
operation manuals, site specific document
and job dockets are getting lost on almost
every jobsite. Companies roll the dice on
compliance management every day because
of manual processes, let alone the commercial
issues such as accurate and timely invoicing.
Sydney based construction software company
Assignar, is an operations platform specifically
built for construction contractors. The
platform takes the hassle away from resource
scheduling & dispatch plus the operational
workflows of timesheeting, payroll and
invoicing, while ensuring safety compliance.
And it is delivered via an App to the workers.
“Our system is designed to streamline
operations for contractors with 20 to 2,000
workers. No more point solutions, you can
run your business on Assignar. We’re proud
that so far, workers on 7,000+ sites have been
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working more safely & efficiently using our
Fieldworker app.” said Sean McCreanor, CEO
at Assignar.
The cloud based software provider has
onboarded several large construction
companies, including UGL, Liebherr, Sydney
Trains and LendLease. They also count many
more sub-contractors working for major GCs
and projects as customers too. Features
include workforce and asset scheduling
& dispatch, timesheet collection, payroll
& invoicing automation and mobile data
collection for processes such as equipment
checklists, pre-start/toolbox meetings, job
safety inspections & risk assessments and
more.
Perfect Hire, one of the early adopters,
manage all the operations of their business
on the platform. From initial recruitment &
training of staff, to ensuring the correct worker
is scheduled and dispatched, right through
to collecting a timesheet and other data. All
job and project data is collected in a single
“bucket” for ease of invoicing and payroll.
“ Managing over 350 employees is a
challenge. Being able to guarantee a high
quality standard, is how you get more jobs.
With Assignar, we ensure the quality of our
workers and that they’re sent out with well
maintained equipment to the client (on time!).
Switching our operations over to Assignar
has saved us so much time in our day to
day operations. We can keep up to date with
compliance and safety, and reduce risk in
our business. We can easily manage all our
workforce out in the field and keep track of
our assets in real-time which is essential. We
couldn’t have doubled our business over the
past 12 months without Assignar”
– Mateusz Jedruszek, Managing Director,
Perfect Hire