Time Tracking Software for the Mining Industry

Time tracking features for mining companies

Mining companies have administrative employees working in the office and miners working in the field, making time tracking difficult. With Buddy Punch, your employees can clock in and out wherever they work.

Clocking in and out

Buddy Punch can be used on any device with an internet connection. Office employees can clock in and out on their computers. Miners can clock in and out using their mobile phones, or you can create a time clock kiosk using an iPad or Android tablet that everyone can use to punch in and out of work.

When using Buddy Punch as a kiosk, employees can clock in and out using a 4-digit PIN, a QR code, or facial recognition (on iPads only). You can also require employees to take a selfie when they clock in and out to prevent buddy punching (available on any device).

If you want employees to clock in and out using their mobile phones but want to prevent them from doing so while offsite, you can set up geofence time tracking. This creates a virtual border around your office and mines, and employees have to be within that border in order to clock in or out of work.

Department and location codes

Department and location codes let you track time by mine site, employee role, or task (e.g., blasting, hauling, maintenance, etc.). When employees clock in, they choose the applicable code from a dropdown list. You can run reports showing exactly how much time was spent on any cost center you want to monitor closely.

Overtime tracking and prevention

Buddy Punch’s overtime tracking software tracks overtime hours based on your overtime policies and automatically calculates overtime pay for you. Want to avoid paying overtime? Set up notifications that will alert you when employees are nearing overtime so you can adjust their schedules.

Attendance tracking

Get push or email notifications when employees clock in late, clock out early, or miss a shift entirely to stay on top of attendance even when you’re not all working at the same location. Download time tracking reports showing attendance issues to easily identify employees who are struggling with excessive tardiness or absenteeism.

Break time tracking

Buddy Punch’s break time tracker lets you create break rules to get better control over employee breaks. Set up automatic breaks to remove unpaid break durations from employees’ timesheets automatically at the end of their shifts, or set up manual breaks to remind employees when it’s time to take a break and make sure they stay on break for the amount of time required by your state’s break laws.

How Buddy Punch expedites payroll

Buddy Punch compiles all employee clock-in and out data into timesheets for you. Regular hours, overtime hours, and pay are all calculated automatically.

If you have individual supervisors for different groups of employees, you can set up time card approval workflows that require managers to approve their employees’ timesheets before you run payroll. And if someone made a mistake or forgot to clock in or out, editing timesheets is easy.

When it’s time to run payroll, you have three options:

• Download a report formatted perfectly for your payroll processor.
• Use one of Buddy Punch’s integrations to send your time data to payroll instantly.
• Use Buddy Punch as your payroll provider to pay employees through Buddy Punch.

With any of these options, you can transform your payroll process from something that takes an entire day every pay period into a short, 30-minute task.

How Buddy Punch simplifies scheduling

Build, publish, and update work schedules in minutes with our employee schedule maker. You can assign employees to work in specific roles and at specific locations.

You can also:

• Set repeating shifts for employees who work the same schedule each week.
• Let team members request shift trades and covers that you can review and approve.
• View employee availability and scheduled time off while creating your schedule.

Employees can view their schedules anytime in the Buddy Punch app, and they can get email or push notifications when new schedules are published.