Industries Served

Construction

Construction and engineering firms operate across jobsites, corporate offices, and subcontractor networks simultaneously. We help these organizations configure Workday to manage project-based workforces, trade certifications, equipment utilization, field safety compliance, and resource demand planning from a single connected platform.

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Project-Based Workforce Configuration Experience
Field & Office Unified Workforce Visibility
Multi-Site Org Design & Labor Allocation
100% Workday Certified Consultants

The Challenge

Built for the Office. Deployed Across the Jobsite.

Construction organizations carry a workforce footprint unlike most other industries: tradespeople with active certification and safety requirements, project-based labor allocations that shift by week, subcontractor relationships that blur traditional employment lines, and equipment utilization tied directly to project cost and schedule. Standard configurations rarely hold up without a partner who understands how these variables connect.

Our consultants have worked with construction and engineering firms to configure Workday in a way that reflects the operational reality of managing projects at scale, connecting field workforce data with corporate finance, HR, and project planning in a single environment.

What We Bring to This Industry

  • Project-based labor allocation and cost tracking
  • Trade skill, certification, and safety compliance tracking
  • Mobile and field workforce configuration
  • Subcontractor and contingent workforce management
  • Equipment assignment and utilization frameworks
  • Multi-project resource planning and demand forecasting
  • Union and prevailing wage payroll configuration
  • Workforce shortage identification and hiring pipeline alignment

Workforce Management

Managing Every Worker Across Every Site

Construction workforces span full-time employees, union tradespeople, subcontractors, and project-specific hires. We configure Workday to give project managers, HR, and finance a unified view of the people, skills, and costs driving each engagement.

Project Labor Allocation & Cost Tracking

Map workforce directly to projects, cost codes, and phases. Track labor spend in real time against budgets, flag overruns early, and support billing and reporting requirements across project types.

Trade Skills & Certification Compliance

Track trade qualifications, OSHA certifications, safety training completions, and license expiration dates for every worker. Automate alerts and prevent uncertified workers from being assigned to restricted roles or sites.

Subcontractor & Contingent Workforce

Configure Workday to capture subcontractor relationships, manage contingent worker profiles, track insurance and compliance documentation, and maintain full visibility into total workforce cost across every project.

Multi-Site Resource Planning

Connect workforce availability with project demand forecasts across all active and upcoming sites. Identify staffing gaps before they delay work, align hiring timelines to project award schedules, and reduce unplanned crew shortages.

Safety & Compliance Workflows

Automate required safety training assignments, enforce site-specific compliance requirements, track incident reporting, and generate audit-ready documentation across every project and location.

Union & Prevailing Wage Payroll

Configure Workday Payroll to handle union agreements, prevailing wage rules, certified payroll reporting, and multi-state labor requirements across a dispersed, project-based workforce.

Workday Financials Suite

Project-Level Financial Visibility From Estimate to Close

Workday Financials brings job costing, project budget management, procurement, and financial consolidation into the same platform as your workforce data. Project managers, finance teams, and executive leadership share a single, accurate view of project financial performance at every stage.

Project Financial Management & Job Costing

Track direct costs, labor costs, material costs, and subcontractor costs at the project, phase, and cost code level. Compare budget-to-actual in real time and surface cost overruns before they compound across the project lifecycle.

Subcontractor & Vendor Procurement

Manage subcontractor contracts, purchase orders, and payment applications through Workday's source-to-pay module. Connect subcontractor spend to project budgets for continuous cost visibility across the supply chain.

Multi-Entity Financial Consolidation

Consolidate financials across project entities, subsidiaries, and joint venture structures with automated intercompany eliminations and flexible segment reporting that supports both legal entity and project-level financial management.

Capital Project & Fixed Asset Management

Track capital project budgets, construction-in-progress, and asset capitalization events within Workday. Connect completed projects to fixed asset records automatically and manage depreciation schedules across equipment and property.

Operational Visibility

From Project Demand to Workforce Decision

When project schedules, workforce availability, and labor costs live in separate systems, project managers and executives are always operating with incomplete information. Workday connects these layers so that field leadership, HR, and finance share a single source of truth for every resourcing, cost, and compliance decision.

We configure reporting and analytics frameworks that surface workforce shortages before they impact project timelines, flag certification expirations before they create safety or compliance risk, and align resource planning with project pipeline so that contract wins translate directly into actionable hiring and deployment plans.

  • Project-level headcount, utilization, and labor cost dashboards
  • Certification expiration and renewal pipeline visibility
  • Trade skill gap and workforce shortage reporting
  • Subcontractor spend versus self-perform cost analysis
  • Hiring forecast aligned to project start and ramp timelines

Common Scenarios We Support

  • Configuring Workday for project-based labor tracking and certified payroll reporting
  • Standing up workforce planning processes aligned to a project pipeline
  • Integrating a newly acquired construction firm into an existing Workday tenant
  • Migrating off a legacy HRIS with project and trade-specific workforce data
  • Building field operations dashboards for project executives and site managers
  • Restructuring org hierarchies to reflect multi-region project structures
  • Deploying Workday Payroll with union and prevailing wage rule configurations

How We Engage

Every Service Line. One Industry Focus.

Our four service lines each bring distinct value to construction and engineering organizations. They are designed to work together or independently, depending on where you are in your Workday journey.

Workday Deployments

Full-lifecycle implementations scoped for project-based workforce structures, trade certifications, union payroll, subcontractor management, and multi-site operations. Fixed-bid, fixed-time with dedicated architects.

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Workday Managed Services

Ongoing environment support with dedicated architects who understand your configuration, your projects, and your compliance obligations. Proactive, not reactive.

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Staff Augmentation

Certified Workday specialists placed inside your team for backfill, program surge, or long-term embedded support. Priced at 15% or more below market, with access to our Area Leads by domain.

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Advisory & Transformation

Independent advisory for M&A integrations, program health assessments, architecture reviews, and governance design. Client-side alignment with no delivery conflict.

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