Multinational construction company comes to Manchester

Hilti, a multinational construction equipment and software services specialist, intends to move its UK headquarters to central Manchester.

The current team of 200 staff members is moving from Trafford Park into the second, third and fourth floors of No.1 Circle Square. This should happen in December 2020.

Matias Järnefelt, managing director for Hilti in Northern Europe and Great Britain, noted that the company considered “many office locations, but none met our requirements better than No.1 Circle Square”.

“The move marks our commitment to Manchester with its international airport, reputation for innovation, thriving construction industry and great universities,” he added. “As the hub for Northern Europe, a more modern head office will allow us to better position Hilti on the international jobs market and attract global talent to come and work with our world class team.”

Many construction contractors and clients require contractor staff to hold and display Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) smart-cards, which prove their qualifications, before allowing them on site.

Here at Time and Attendance North West, we are an IT partner of the CSCS through our parent company, Tensor plc. This means that we can provide seamless integration between the CSCS smartcard and our WinTA.NET software, which provides time management, visitor/contractor management and fire/evacuation roll-call systems.

The integration takes the end-user form of a CSCS “card wizard”. This set of rules allows a company to quickly grant construction contractors recognition by and access to our hardware, such as clocking terminals, turnstiles, and door controllers. The wizard will run one of three scenarios when giving access rights to contractors. These are:

• Contractors who are completely new to the system.
• Contractors whose name exists on the system but their CSCS card has not been entered.
• Contractors who are fully recorded on the system and have used their card at other sites, but are new to this particular site.

For each different scenario the wizard will guide the user through the enrolment procedure. The result is that:

• The contractor’s CSCS card is read (using a USB card reader attached to a Tensor.NET Client PC)
• Details are extracted from the card to update the contractor’s details within the system
• Options such as a company, site, shift group and department are assigned to the cardholder

To make it easier to include new contractors in your site’s existing health and safety and security procedures, please contact us today.

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