Workforce Scheduling For Energy Companies
Manage Costs Efficiently with Snap Schedule
Reduce scheduling issues that lead to increased operating costs, grievances, and high worker turnover in oil, gas, and energy companies.
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“Drag and drop scheduling has reduced my previous 14 hours of scheduling time to 8 hours – even including our constant changes. That’s 6 ‘new’ hours I have to help users and coach staff in technology and customer solutions.”
“We know instantly where our team members are just by looking at the screen – not flipping through pages of paper. I can see overtime situations easily. It’s almost impossible to overlook a commitment.”
What Can Snap Schedule Do For Me?
Cost control is a constant struggle for oil, gas, and energy companies. Poor shift scheduling of engineers, field service workers or laboratory employees can lead to increased costs, decreased profitability, high worker turnover, and soaring grievances. Field services, laboratory and engineer managers often spend countless hours on shift scheduling, trying to get their shifts and work schedules just right. Overstaffing wastes payroll dollars while understaffing results in blown budgets. Energy shift scheduling presents many challenges. Most oil and gas exploration companies or alternative fuel research laboratories operate around the clock (24/7), having many job positions to schedule and multiple shifts to cover. Within each shift, staff must also be assigned to various tasks. Further, union and FLSA rules may place restrictions on work hours, overtime compensation, and the types of shift rotation that can be implemented. The schedulers must also consider time-off requests, labor rules, and worker availabilities when developing schedules for energy companies.
Key Scheduling, Labor Cost Control, and Reporting Features
- Create schedules in a snap
Drag-and-drop to easily assign shifts, mark time-off, move or copy assignments for your engineers, field service workers, energy, oil, and gas employees. Track all training, vacation, sick leave, and other off-work requests.
- Assign shifts to employees in multiple locations & areas
Define as many locations/departments as you like and authorize your energy, gas, and oil workers and employees to work at certain locations but not others. Filter/sort work schedules and reports based on locations.
- Assign breaks, duties, and tasks within each shift
Visually assign breaks, duties, and tasks of any length from one minute to several hours with a simple drag-and-drop.
- Find best fit employees or substitutes
Easily find qualified and eligible engineers, field services workers, and energy, oil, and gas employees to fill open shifts based on availability, position, skill, labor cost, work hour limits, seniority and other criteria.
- Avoid scheduling conflict
Detect and alert all sorts of schedule conflicts like overlapping shifts, lacking required skills, not enough rest between shifts, or too many overtime hours. Any conflict will be clearly flagged and color-coded on schedule views.
- Up-to-date employee availability, skill level and expiration
Energy, oil, and gas company employees can enter availability information for each day of the week and restrictions that should be considered when creating and managing schedules. Avoid over/under staffing a shift with people you need by skills and get an alert when an employee’s skill or certification is about to expire.
- Ensure adequate shift coverage
Show the number of energy, oil, and gas company workers scheduled in each shift by position, skill, or reason so you can quickly see if any position is over/under staffed while making shift assignments.
- Handle overtime, shift premium and incentive pay
Flexible pay rules to compute overtime and extra pay to energy, gas, and oil company employees working on public holidays, certain days or hours of the day, irregular shifts, etc.
- Comply with labor rules and collective agreements
Avoid grievances and ensure compliance to collective bargaining agreements, HR policies, labor and working time regulations. When filling an open shift, you can use multiple criteria to narrow down the number of eligible energy, gas, and oil company employees.
- Time sheet data for payroll
Adjust the shift’s scheduled start and end times to reflect the actual time worked and instantly see the revised hours and costs. Add notes and reasons to record or explain deviations and provide time card data for payroll.
- Make informed decisions based on up-to-date data
Use a comprehensive set of 49 reports to analyze scheduling data; prepare management records; and track energy, gas and oil worker activities, assignments, costs, and time-offs.
- Publish schedules
Easily publish shift schedules, calendars, and any report in PDF and a variety of other formats. Automatically email work schedules (in text or iCalendar file format) to energy, gas, and oil company employees and/or their supervisors.
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Employee Self-Service Features
- View work schedule from anywhere, anytime
From home to business, from desktop to mobile device, your energy, gas, and oil company workers and employees have 24/7 access to schedule data. You control who will be allowed access and which employee self-service features will be enabled for your operations.
- Request time off
Energy, oil, and gas company workers can make time off/vacation requests and schedulers can track, manage, approve, or deny those requests. Employees can see the approval status and are automatically alerted when their request is approved or rejected via an iOS/Android in-app notification.
- Self-scheduling with Open Shifts
Empower your energy, gas, and oil employees by letting them self-schedule with Open Shift. Schedulers can simply create an open shift for a position and specify the shift and the required number of employees and skills. Qualified energy, gas, and oil workers and employees can view open shifts and bid for the shift they like.
- Shift trade/pick up
Allow automatic shift trading with or without scheduler’s approval. Energy, gas, and oil company employees can post their shifts for trade and coworkers who are eligible to work the shift can pick up or swap. Posting employees can invite all from the list of qualified co-workers or only those selected on the list to swap shift.
- Punch in/out
Energy, gas, and oil company workers can punch in and out of their assigned shifts and you can set the time window for when employees are allowed to punch in or out. Schedulers can see the punch data in real-time or use the data to report the variances between planned and actual work hours and costs.
- View time card information
Energy, gas, and oil company workers and employees can view their planned and actual work hours for the current, previous, or next payroll cycle. On-call, overtime, paid and unpaid time-off hours are also presented.
- Update availability and contact information
Save time and stay up-to-date by allowing energy, gas, and oil company employees to update their own contact information and availability. Employees can enter their availability information for each day of the week and in multiple time segments as needed. Snap Schedule uses this information to help schedulers select the best available employees to fill shifts.
- Look up coworkers
Energy, gas, and oil company workers and employees can look up coworkers’ contact information to call, text, or email. Schedulers decide whom to include or exclude from the directory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Contrast the ease of use and thoroughness of Snap Schedule’s scheduling functions to those in your current solution. Then look at all the other tasks Snap Schedule does for you like energy, gas and oil company employee information management, emailing, overtime and labor costs monitoring, management reporting, etc. Every scheduling chore that now takes you three or four administrative minutes—and add up to hours—can suddenly take you seconds.