Tips for Effective Construction Crew Management

Construction crew management is a complex task that requires detailed planning, proper scheduling and monitoring. However, there are many other factors involved in better construction crew management.

In this blog, we will take you through some effective tips and implementation of software tools for a unified management of construction crews. 

How to manage construction crews effectively?

Let’s see some of the actionable and effective tips for smooth construction crew management. 

Craft a detailed plan for the project

Effective construction crew management commences with a detailed plan. Clearly outline the project plan with required elements including, project goals, time limit, milestones, resource allocations and distributions. Try to make it a realistic and feasible plan. 

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Assign tasks efficiently

Once you are done with your detailed plan, it’s time to assign the tasks to your crews. Prepare a team with a leader and assign the tasks to the crews. Brief them with every detail so that they can understand and complete the tasks. Clarify doubts if there are any. 

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Ensure the timely presence of the field crews

Maintaining a timely presence in the job field is a critical task. However, software with geofenced attendance can solve this issue by ensuring correct attendance in the correct job location. 

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Track and monitor 

Make necessary adjustments so that you can track and monitor your field employees efficiently. Know their real time locations and route maps while they are working on-site. 

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Ensure safety and compliance

It’s not that you will look for the efforts of your construction crews. You need to ensure their safety by providing necessary safety instructions and equipment. As a company owner or a manager, you need to gain the trust of your construction crews by showing them you care about their safety, security, and well-being. You need to ensure that your crews are following the safety guides properly and using the safety equipment timely. 

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Proper training and development

Arrange training sessions related to their jobs, physical safety, hygiene, motivation, etc. With proper training, you can transform your crews to your efficient assets who will be delivering excellent outputs. 

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Process timely payroll

You might have permanent or part-time field construction crews who work based on hourly or fixed payments. Make sure you process and deliver the payroll timely. Timely payment will keep your crews motivated. 

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Recognize the success of the construction crews

Motivation is a great factor for the construction crews to deliver high-quality outputs. Recognize your good performing crews often to encourage others. Reward your employees with gift cards, bonuses, paid time off, etc.

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Handle construction crew conflicts sophistically

Conflicts are common in the workplace, especially in construction sites. These conflicts may hamper productivity and efficiency by demotivating the crews. So, make some arrangements so that you or your manager can address the conflicts as soon as possible and solve them by communicating with the employees. Make rightful decisions so that all crews can trust you. 

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Use Construction Crew Management Software

Use software and other technological tools like drones to monitor your construction crews. In the later part of the blog, we will show you how Fieldservicely, a construction crew management software can help you in managing your crews smoothly. 

Fieldservicely for better construction crew management.

Fieldservicely is a comprehensive construction crew management software that can help you to execute the tips shared above. Let’s see how- 

Attendance management: 

With FieldServicely, you can easily ensure timely geofenced attendance of your construction crews.  Let’s see how this can be done. 

• You can consider your construction as your office. Now create an office in FieldServicely, set the construction site location and assign your crews who will be working there.

• Now your construction crews can easily provide attendance using the FieldServicely mobile app by entering inside the circle of your geofenced site location. Once your construction crew clocks-in, the selfie camera will open and it will give you the assurance that the right person has provided the attendance.

Scheduling for Construction Crews

Both one time and recurring schedules are available inside Fieldservicely construction management software. Let’s see how this scheduling can be done.

• Create Office Schedule

This helps the users to clock-in from the geofenced location. Add your construction site details with location and geofenced radius under this office schedule, and add your crews. You can make this schedule recurring and add the end date. However, for managers and supervisors who need to come to your office first and then go to the job location, you can add the location of your

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• Create Job Schedule

This is suitable for your crews who need to come to your office first and then go to the construction location. They can check-in there. If you have freelance construction crews who will work for a limited time, you can create a job schedule for them as well.

Evidence submission

Evidence of the construction crews’s work will keep them sincere about their tasks by creating a sense of accountability. After construction crews are finishing their tasks, they will have to provide evidence. This can be in pictorial format, voice message or both. Check the evidence and then approve or reject with remarks.

Location tracking

Location tracking is important for the field employees. With Fieldservicely, you can see the positions of your clocked-in construction crews working on-field. You can also check the route maps of your mobile field employees to see which route they are following.

Time tracking and timesheet management

Know your construction crews’ timesheets on a daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or custom date basis from Fieldservicely.  If you want to approve the timesheets of employees, you can also do that.

Payroll calculation

With Fieldservicely, you can calculate the payroll of your construction crews. You can do it on an hourly basis or send a fixed payment. If you want to automatically calculate the hourly payroll of your construction crews, you need to set their pay rate first.

Easy Invoicing

Utilizing the invoicing feature of Fieldservciely, you can bill your clients and receive the payments. Provide all the information in the invoice including currency, unit price, discount, tax, etc and send it to your client for whom you are doing the construction work.