Shift Cover
When a maintenance technician resigns, goes off sick or takes leave, the rota still has to be filled. Post the shift, set the rate you are willing to pay, and verified industrial technicians apply at it. No negotiation, no agency margin.
Hire industrial field service technicians for shift cover and maintenance cover directly. No agency markup, just a flat 6% platform fee.
The general rota position. Planned work when quiet, breakdowns when not.
A shift electrician for drives, controls, motors and power faults.
Bearings, gearboxes, conveyors, pumps, hydraulics and pneumatics.
One person across both disciplines, plus specialist categories.
Pick Shift Cover, choose the discipline, set how many shifts you need and when. There is no machine to specify, because cover is not tied to one asset. Matching uses the equipment already on your company profile, so technicians who know your plant rank higher.
Post openly to every matching technician, or keep it invite only and approach specific people.
Enter the hourly rate you pay and the length of one shift. Technicians apply at that rate, so there is no quotation to review and no back and forth while a shift goes uncovered.
The total is your rate multiplied by the hours in a shift multiplied by the shifts you need. A flat 6% platform fee sits on top, and the technician keeps 100% of the rate you set.
Shift cover is ranked differently from a one-off repair. Location and discipline carry the most weight, and distance is scored on a sliding scale, so a closer technician always ranks higher than an equally qualified one further away.
Set the shifts and the date window, with weekend and Friday exclusions where your rota does not run those days.
The platform fee is 6% in total: 3% payment processing and 3% platform. It is charged to you on top of the technician's rate, which means nothing is deducted from what they earn. The rate you post is the rate they are paid.
Recruitment and contractor agencies typically add a margin on every hour worked, with figures commonly reported in the industrial staffing market falling somewhere in the 25% to 50% range, though this varies by country and contract. A flat 6% does not grow with the length of the engagement, and you see the exact arithmetic before you commit to anything.
A normal mission is a defined job on one machine. Shift cover is a rota position across whatever the site runs. There is no single machine, no photo requirement, and no written report at the end, because the timesheets are the record.
No. You set the hourly rate and shift length when you post, and technicians apply at those terms with a written message. That removes a round trip, which matters when you are trying to fill a shift at short notice.
Yes. You can restrict applications to technicians holding liability insurance, and your site requirements, such as hard hat, hi vis or lock-out certification, are carried from your company profile onto every mission you post.
Payment is taken up front when you confirm, and the technician logs hours shift by shift for you to approve. Approved hours drive the final settlement, so if a shift runs short or long the record reflects what actually happened.
Post the shift pattern, set your rate, and see who applies. Free to post, and you only pay when you confirm a technician.