Industrial maintenance contractor time tracking
Industrial maintenance contractor time tracking, from the plant gate to the unit.
Industrial maintenance contractor time tracking has to show more than the owner's gate log. The turnstile says your crew was inside the fence; it doesn't say how long they spent at the unit, in the warehouse or waiting at the laydown yard. ZeroBadge gives each of your workers a badge you own. Power on starts the shift, each report lands in the plant area you've drawn, power off ends it.
- Your record, not the owner's gate log
- Several plants in one week, one timesheet
- One month or more of battery life*
*Under qualifying operating conditions. Battery life varies with reporting frequency, signal conditions, usage, and configuration.
Same crew · same week · 3 jobsites
A time clock at each site
records the punchRiverside
Time clock
Harbor Yard
Time clock
Northgate
Time clock
Hours exist where a clock was placed and someone used it. The drive between sites is not part of the record.
A record that follows the worker
records the dayRiverside
Harbor Yard
Northgate
Time at each site and the transit between them land in one shift record.
What ZeroBadge does for you
How ZeroBadge helps industrial contractors
One company badge per worker covers safety alerts, timekeeping, labor analytics and ZeroBadge AI. Here is what each part does in your line of work.
01
Worker safety
A millwright working alone in a plant can press the alert button, and the office sees which plant raised it, with restricted-area alerts for zones you mark.
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Workforce management
See which crews are at which plant today, and which turnaround crew members have not reached the area they were sent to.
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Automated timekeeping
Badge on starts the shift on arrival, so long turnaround days and several plants in one week are recorded without a personal phone.
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Workforce productivity
Compare time at the work area with time at the gate for each crew, so the invoice to the plant owner rests on recorded hours.
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Location analytics
Each plant is a drawn location, and the record places a person at an area of the plant, never at a particular piece of equipment.
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Field logistics
Balance millwrights, pipefitters and welders across plants using recorded hours, so a turnaround is staffed without starving routine maintenance.
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AI advisory and analytics
Ask ZeroBadge AI how many hours each crew spent at a plant against its gate log, answered from your badge records.
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Safety alerts support your safety program. They do not replace supervision or training, ZeroBadge does not monitor alerts or contact 911, and in an emergency workers should call 911.
Working inside someone else's fence
The owner keeps the gate log. Your invoice has to agree with it.
When your crews work inside a refinery, a food plant or a distribution center, the owner records who came through the gate and when. Your timesheets, your invoice and that log all describe the same week, and they rarely match to the minute.
Gate time is not unit time
The walk from contractor parking, the bus to the unit, the tool crib and the wait for a work permit all happen inside the fence. The owner may count some of it; your crew is paid for it.
Each plant has its own rules
One plant wants hours by work order, another by unit, a third just a daily total per person. Your office rebuilds the same week three ways from foremen's sheets.
Orientation and badging days
The first day at a new plant is often paperwork and the owner's orientation. Those hours are real and easy to lose because no wrench turned.
Questions on the invoice
A plant's contract administrator asks why your sheet says 12 hours when their turnstile shows 11.5. Without your own record, the answer is a foreman's memory.
A turnaround week
Twelve-hour shifts at one plant, and two people pulled to a warehouse.
Illustrative week for a mechanical contractor's turnaround crew.
Foremen's sheets
- MondayOrientation and badging at the plant. The sheet says 10 hours, the owner's log says 9.
- Tue to SatTwelve-hour shifts at the unit. Nights hand over to days, and the sheets are filled in at the end of the shift.
- ThursdayTwo millwrights leave for a conveyor repair at another customer's warehouse. Their hours stay on the turnaround sheet.
- Next MondayThe office reconciles three formats and sends an invoice the plant questions.
Badge record
- MondayBadge on at the gate. Time at the orientation building is its own line.
- Tue to SatEvery shift carries its real start and end. Time at the unit, the laydown yard and the shop trailer is split by area.
- ThursdayThe two millwrights' day shows the plant, the drive and the warehouse, with each customer's hours separate.
- Next MondayHours by person, day and plant export as CSV, Excel or PDF to sit behind the invoice.
Several plants in one week
Each plant is a location. A crew that covers three keeps one timesheet.
Routine maintenance contracts send small crews to several plants and warehouses in a week. Draw each customer's plant, and the units or yards inside it that matter for billing, as locations. The example company in this view is a construction contractor; the record works the same way inside a fence line.
A worker who starts at one plant and finishes at another keeps one shift. The drive between them is transit. Each customer's hours reach your office already separated.
Oct 5–9
Multi-site
10 of 24
workers this week
Site transfers
3
Transit
19.0 h
- Riverside
- Harbor Yard
- Northgate
- Shop
- Cascade Supply
- Transit
Lena O. · Foreman
4 locations · 46.7 h
Riverside 0.8 · Harbor Yard 38.1 · Shop 3.4 · Cascade Supply 0.4 · Transit 4.0
Ben C. · Journeyman pipefitter
2 locations · 44.3 h
Riverside 36.3 · Harbor Yard 8.0
Mateo G. · Sheet metal journeyman
2 locations · 44.3 h
Riverside 36.3 · Harbor Yard 8.1
Rosa D. · Journeyman pipefitter
2 locations · 44.3 h
Riverside 36.3 · Harbor Yard 8.0
Kenji H. · Apprentice
3 locations · 47.8 h
Riverside 44.0 · Shop 0.8 · Cascade Supply 1.2 · Transit 1.8
+ 5 more workers with time at more than one location
Inside the plant
What the plant's rules and your foremen will ask.
The owner's access control
ZeroBadge does not replace the plant's gate badge or turnstile. Your workers still badge in at the gate; your company badge records your own shift alongside it.
Hazardous locations
The badge is not certified for hazardous locations, including Class I Division 1, ATEX or IECEx zones. Check the plant's rules on electronic devices before it goes into a classified area.
Plant Wi-Fi
The badge has its own cellular connection and never needs the plant's Wi-Fi password. Indoors it places itself from the Wi-Fi networks it can see. Separate units, buildings and yards split well; two spots in one building usually don't.
Night shifts
A night crew's hours carry their real times, so a 6 PM to 6 AM shift shows the hours on each date and in the weekly total.
Overtime on long shifts
Twelve-hour shifts six days a week push everyone into overtime early. Hours by day are visible as they happen, and your payroll provider applies the rules you set.
Mobilize to demobilize
Run badges on a turnaround from mobilization day.
- 01
Before mobilization
Draw the plant and the areas you bill against from the owner's site plan: the unit, the laydown yard, your trailer. Nothing is installed inside the fence.Office · the week before
- 02
Mobilization day
Hand each worker a badge tied to their name, travelers and temporary hires included. Reassign a badge in seconds when the crew changes.Site lead · day one
- 03
During the job
Review the exceptions daily: a missed power-off, a late start, time outside the plant. Fix them while the foreman still remembers the shift.Office · daily
- 04
Demobilization
Collect badges at the gate. A badge that doesn't come back can be marked lost. Approve the final weeks and send approved hours to your payroll provider.Office · last day
Go deeper
Where industrial contractors usually look next.
- Industry guideManufacturingPlants with several buildings and yards, shutdown contractors and no phones on the floor.
- Industry guideContractors in manufacturing plantsThe plant owner's view: hours for the outside contractors working inside the fence.
- Industry guideOil & GasWellsites, pads and pipeline right-of-way, with crews moving between remote locations.
- Industry guideMechanical contractorsField, fab shop and supplier time for HVAC, piping and sheet metal crews.
- SolutionMulti-jobsite time trackingSite transfers, transit and supply runs inside one shift record.
- SolutionOvertime trackingDaily and weekly overtime visible on the day it happened, by worker and jobsite.
- SolutionJobsite time clock alternativesKiosks, tablets, portable site clocks and foreman punch, compared with a worn badge.
- SolutionPayroll integrationApproved hours sent to your payroll provider automatically. Nobody re-keys a timecard.
ZeroBadge AI
Ask about plants and turnarounds
ZeroBadge AI answers only from your own recorded hours in plain English, and every figure links to the shifts it summarizes.
You ask
How many hours did the turnaround crew record at Delmar Foods this week?
Twelve crew members recorded 612 hours at Delmar Foods, with 21 hours between the gate and the work area. Each worker's hours link to their shift.
You ask
Which plants did Ramon work at in the last two weeks?
Ramon was recorded at Delmar Foods for 52 hours and Crestline Packaging for 38. The daily visits are linked.
You ask
Which invoice lines from Crestline Packaging have more billed hours than recorded?
Two lines show 36 billed hours against 31 recorded and 40 against 38. Each line links to the badge hours it was compared with.
Answers come only from your company's own records. Every number links to the records behind it. Read-only; admins control access.
How ZeroBadge AI worksQuestions
Questions industrial contractors ask.
Why don't our hours match the plant's gate log?
Can the plant owner see our crew's hours?
Is the badge allowed inside a refinery or chemical plant?
How is this different from the manufacturing page?
Do we need a separate system for each customer's plant?
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See a turnaround week, gate to unit, in one record.
We'll walk through ZeroBadge with your plants, your shift patterns and how you invoice your customers today.
What we will walk through
- 01Your own shift record beside the owner's gate log
- 02Hours by person, day and plant for each customer
- 03Weekly timesheets, review and the payroll integration