• Companies looking to automate field time entry without making their foremen feel they are data entry clerks for the payroll department
• Contractors looking to collect more field data, store it for easy retrieval, reduce paper, and make quicker decisions based on data to improve productivity.
• Contractors trying to improve cross-departmental processes including the field, estimating, accounting, and safety.

• Small contractors trying to grow with efficiency
• Medium and large contractors looking to get more efficient and effective in the field

• Since 1998 on laptops and palm pilots
• Since 2012 on tablets and smartphones

Yes, you have the option of monthly subscription or traditional software license

• For budget purposes, the average for everyone who uses it, from foreman to project managers to payroll personnel, is roughly $900/user/year
• Volume discounts apply

We expect you to get the intended value out of the product and get your money back if you do not achieve your objective.

• Catch errors early and make corrections
• Field people better understand how jobs were estimated
• Faster time card entry in the field
• Eliminate the logistics of paper time cards
• Efficient recording of field notes and photos
• Reduce time gathering claim information
• Reduce time revising hour, quantity, and cost code information
• Reduce the use of secondary production spreadsheets
• Eliminate handling and storage of paper
• Reduce calls to the field investigating anomalies
• Reduce paycheck disputes and manual checks
• Better communication between the office and the field
• To calculate your company’s specific ROI, including an executive report with all of the savings, costs, and assumptions, click here.

• Yes, if you are only trying to solve a specific issue such as time entry
• Doing that is likely to fail as the foremen don’t want to be data entry clerks for the payroll department
• The most expensive thing is to waste the time of valuable people in the field rolling out inappropriate software
• Change management can be VERY expensive when people are not on board

• Yes. Integrates with the following HCSS products:
  • HeavyBid Estimating Software
  • HCSS Safety
  • HCSS Plans
  • HCSS Telematics
  • Equipment360 Maintenance Software
  • HCSS Dispatching Software
  • HCSS Trucking
  • HCSS Employee App
  • HCSS Business Intelligence

• Of course. You should expect software companies to allow you to see their references without having them hand-picked.
• Ours are available here.

• It starts with a 2 or 3 day planning in Houston
• This gets everyone on the same page
• HCSS Project Management makes sure everyone does their assigned task
• Basics of the system is then normally trained in 2 days at your site
• Advanced features can then be added afterwards
• 95% of our customers are completely operational within 90 days of start

• $6,200 for the implementation planning in Houston
• Travel expenses for the people you bring to Houston
• $2,000 for project management
• $6,800 for 2 days of training at your site, which includes our travel expenses

Software and support are included FREE for an entire year.

• Because it eliminates multiple entry and connects the field to the office.
• Unlike paper, numbers are not transposed & illegible handwriting is not an issue
• There are multiple advantages over tracking spreadsheets:
  1. HeavyJob connects the budget from HeavyBid
  2. Job cost calculations are not at risk of being changed
  3. Time is electronically transferred to your accounting system
  4. You do not have to be concerned about old versions of the spreadsheet

• Timecards are just the tip of the iceberg – HeavyJob does much more.
• In fact, the efficiency gains for the timecard process, while substantial, are dwarfed by the advantages you get by having the field find and correct problems early or by using HeavyJob to plan ahead.

• Most foremen are taught in under an hour on the iPad
• Within a week, they are pretty proficient at the basics
• The trick to accomplish this is planning and execution, which is a proven process that we have perfected with over a thousand customers

• Many foremen actually tell us that they love using it.
• It is very common for us to hear a foreman say “I will never go back to paper”
• Once a foreman learns how to check his production and plan ahead, he understands that there is something in it for him – he is not just doing this to eliminate work for a data entry clerk

• The iPad can display in Spanish
• Most non-English speakers pick it up in a similar timeframe

• We consistently hear that the time to “do paperwork” is cut in half
• The BEST foremen use the time they save to check the production against goals and plan for tomorrow

• It helps the foreman understand the estimator’s original plan
• The foreman has a platform to plan his work and run it by a Superintendent / PM
• Over time, foremen improve their planning and job costing acumen, making it a GREAT way to grow them into superintendents or beyond
• The foreman has a way to run “what-if” scenarios if he is not making production
• He can use technology to help him communicate production and safety goals as well as using electronic plans to illustrate what to do on-screen – helping him be more effective as a leader with his crew

• By eliminating any handwritten info that can be entered incorrectly
• The process of calculating unit costs/productions and comparing to the budget gives the foreman context that will help him notice a cost coding error

• After the foreman enters his crew’s time and quantities he can see how he did for the day compared to the estimate
• This means by the end of the day he knows he has an issue and can start correcting it
• People in the office (superintendents, PMs, etc) get access to the same data as soon as it is sent in and can start planning corrective action also
• This means that errors are caught and corrected much faster than it would be with most construction accounting systems
• HeavyJob can even identify these errors ahead of time as you train your foremen to make “production plans” for tomorrow each day

• Everyone is looking at the same production and cost information so they are on the same page with any issues
• The estimator’s original plan is always available for the job team to reference and determine what the estimator was thinking was going to happen for that work
• Plans for production can be set, shared, and approved prior to work starting

• Notes, photos, and fillable forms are captured and marked with the right job, date, and person who entered it.
• These are instantly available to search in the event of a claim or other issue

• Data stored in HeavyJob can be searched and indexed (marked) to support claims or other issues
• When a job is over, access to this information is dramatically more efficient than searching through paper boxes
• This value is compounded if you have jobs with extremely long warranty periods where it is likely that nobody will remember the details when they might be needed 8-10 years in the future

• The field team always has access to HeavyBid information showing:
  1. The kind of crew the estimator was expecting to use
  2. Productions expected to gain
  3. How a quantity was calculated
  4. Any notes about conditions, assumptions, etc
• The field can reference this and get a project back on track

• Many companies choose to systematize early and grow with efficiency
• This puts in a good structure to help improve communication
• It also helps you do more with less and thus grow smarter

• If the PM was not involved in estimating the project, he has access to the estimator’s notes and plans
• If he was involved, he can reference his own to remind himself
• He can lead a project well by getting the foremen and superintendents on his job to look at their production goals and job cost daily as well as plan for tomorrow.
• This helps the PM not be alone in keeping the project on track
• The PM can also have efficiency benefits of his own utilizing the system to stay on top of the timecards he needs to approve, jobsite notes and pictures, quantities, material, billings, forecasts, and track change orders

• By giving each other more visibility to each other’s work
• The foreman and project manager get to see the estimator’s original plan
• The project manager and estimator get to check on how the job is doing based on what the foreman enters daily
• The foreman gets to make production plans to get back on track and send it for feedback from the PM and/or estimator
• The estimator gets access to historical achieved productions from the field to help him get better at using realistic productions over time

• The PM “spreads the insomnia” to keep a job on track by getting the foremen and superintendents on his job to look at their production goals and job cost daily as well as plan for tomorrow.
• Over time, some foremen and superintendents will get better at this and can step up into running part of the project for the PM
• The PM can access info about jobs from anywhere, meaning he can effectively monitor multiple jobs at once

• Some foremen and superintendents start teaching certain crew members how to enter the information so they can grow in their careers
• These crew employees can also take pictures & notes about what is happening
• Since they can access info from anywhere, they can stay on top of jobs where they are not located all day

• Reduces or eliminates double entry for labor hours
• No illegible handwriting or transposed numbers
• Accuracy is better than with paper, as the foreman has context for what he is entering
• The person who knows the work best is entering it

• The estimator gets access to historical achieved productions from the field to help him get better at using realistic productions over time
• Built in accountability to the field because they know what he was planning
• If the field people think the estimator “is an idiot”, they have a feedback loop to help him

• An optional 2-level approval process that makes it easy to track what is reviewed & approved
• Revisions are tracked so foremen can be coached

Production plans can be done together so everyone is on same page

• Crew members can be given responsibilities to help them develop into foremen
• Foremen and superintendents can get good at planning, job costing, and leadership – moving them closer to project managers
• Project managers and estimators can get better at understanding each other’s’ jobs