Workforce Management Software For Construction

Workforce management software for construction manages recruitment, onboarding, compliance, learning and performance for your crews, beside the rostering, project and payroll tools you already use. Sentrient shows site and project managers who is cleared to work, what is outstanding and what falls due next on every site.

Yes. Sentrient is built for Australian and New Zealand organisations, with Australian compliance courses, local support and records set up around Australian employment and WHS obligations. Builders and trade contractors use it for site crews and office staff, and it works beside Australian rostering, project and payroll systems rather than replacing them.

Most builders run project management software, a rostering app and a payroll system, none of which Sentrient replaces, and many still track white cards and licences in spreadsheets. Sentrient fits beside them as the people and compliance layer. Our guide to what workforce management software does and our comparison of WFM software and an HRIS explain the difference.

Sentrient does not build rosters, interpret the Building and Construction General On-site Award, run payroll, cost jobs, schedule projects or manage site sign-in. It manages recruitment, onboarding, compliance, learning and performance beside those tools. Our HR page for construction covers the HR team’s records, and our construction learning page covers course delivery in more depth.

Many construction employers are covered by the Building and Construction General On-site Award, as the Fair Work Ombudsman’s award summary sets out, alongside the National Employment Standards, record-keeping and work health and safety duties. Sentrient helps you keep evidence of onboarding, licences, training and policy acknowledgement, but it does not interpret awards, and your business remains responsible for meeting every obligation.

Sentrient manages job posts, candidate screening, interview notes, reference checks and electronic contracts, and records the outcome of the checks your business runs, including licences you have sighted. It does not run checks itself. In Victoria, for example, WorkSafe lets you validate a digital WorkSafe licence online, and Sentrient keeps your record of the result.

Yes. New workers complete their details, banking and superannuation, work eligibility, white card and licence uploads and policy acknowledgements online before day one, often on their phone. Safe Work Australia notes that workers must show their white card to the business on site, so site managers can see who is ready and who still has gaps.

Yes. Sentrient stores high risk work licences, first aid certificates and other tickets as compliance records with expiry dates. Automated compliance notifications remind workers and managers before a record lapses, and dashboards show what is due by site, so managers can act before someone works without a current licence. Our document management software for construction page covers that record register in full, including self-service uploads, validation and escalation.

Workers request leave in Sentrient, managers approve or decline it, and staff calendars show leave and key dates for each site. Leave integrates with Xero and MYOB, so approved leave does not have to be keyed in twice. Your rostering tool still decides who covers each shift.

Yes. Workers can complete online timesheets, managers review and approve hours, and attendance can be tracked by site. Timesheet data exports to your payroll system for processing. Sentrient does not calculate award rates, allowances or overtime, so pay calculation stays with your payroll software.

Yes. Sentrient is designed to sit beside the rostering, project management and payroll systems builders already use, not to replace them. It holds the people and compliance records those tools do not, integrates leave with Xero and MYOB, and exports timesheet data for payroll, so each system keeps its own job.

Publish policies and safe work procedures, such as your drug and alcohol, fatigue and site conduct policies, then track who has read and acknowledged each version by site. Acknowledged procedures help you show that workers received the information they need, and your business remains responsible for how those procedures are applied on site.

Construction crews often start with work health and safety training, incident reporting training, bullying and harassment courses from Sentrient’s library, with refreshers set on a cycle. For course delivery, assessments and custom site modules, see our learning management software for construction.

Workers record incidents, near misses and hazards through Sentrient’s incident reporting tools, and managers see reports across sites. For hazard registers and risk controls in depth, see our risk management software for construction. Pulse surveys add a quick read on how safe and supported crews feel, and your business remains responsible for managing those risks.

Share announcements with every site or a single crew, message teams, recognise good work, post photo albums from project milestones and run feedback surveys. Workers who rarely visit head office get the same updates as everyone else, and managers can see how teams respond.

Set business objectives, write position descriptions for site roles and agree goals with each person. Dashboards and workflows remind managers when reviews are due, and ongoing performance conversations are recorded, so a supervisor’s history travels with them from project to project.

Yes. Dashboards and ready-made reports show onboarding status, licence and induction records, training completion and upcoming expiries by site, team or role. Site managers see their own crews, head office sees the whole business, and access levels keep each person to the information their role needs.

Give subcontractors and labour hire workers the inductions, policies and training relevant to your sites, with their records kept alongside employees’. Safe Work Australia notes that a business cannot eliminate its health and safety duties by subcontracting the work, so each business remains responsible for its own duties.

No. Workers can complete onboarding, upload licences, acknowledge procedures, request leave, submit timesheets and finish courses on a phone or tablet. Managers can approve requests and check site status on mobile too, which suits crews who rarely sit at a desk.

Sentrient keeps onboarding records, licences, inductions, policy acknowledgements, training completions and incident reports with names and dates, ready to export. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s record-keeping guidance says time and wages records must be kept for 7 years, and those stay in your payroll system, not in Sentrient. Your business remains responsible for complete records.

Sentrient combines recruitment, onboarding, compliance, learning and performance in one platform, with pre-built Australian compliance courses and local support. It works beside your rostering, project and payroll tools instead of asking you to replace them. Trade businesses can also see our HR software for contractors.

More than 1,000 Australian organisations use Sentrient, including Engineers Australia, infrastructure advisory firm E3 Advisory and Energy and Water Ombudsman Victoria. Read how Energy and Water Ombudsman Victoria uses Sentrient for induction, compliance training and policy completions.

Pricing depends on your number of workers and sites and the modules you use, so Sentrient prepares a tailored proposal after a short conversation about your projects. There are no figures on this page because two builders of the same size can need quite different set-ups.

Book a free 20-minute demo and a Sentrient specialist will walk through recruitment, onboarding, licences, compliance and reporting using examples that match your sites, trades and projects. You will see how it sits beside your current rostering and payroll tools before you decide.