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Crew apps for Dammam contractors who staff shutdowns, plants and port shifts.

Staffing app development Dammam firms ask us about usually serves industry rather than retail. Manpower contractors in the Eastern Province supply welders, fitters, scaffolders, helpers, drivers and warehouse crews to plants, yards and the port, often on rotations and at short notice when a shutdown is brought forward. We build staffing apps that book whole crews, check every certificate before a person reaches the gate, record hours on site and turn them into accurate payouts and client invoices.

Discovery for Dammam, Khobar and Jubail clients runs by video call with our team in Riyadh and Dubai. Permanent recruitment has its own pages on this site; this one is about temporary crews, rotations and the hours they work.

Built for
Manpower contractors, maintenance and shutdown service firms, logistics operators and facility companies across Dammam, Khobar, Dhahran and Jubail.
Typical timeline
Fixed after video call discovery, with the first release scope and review points in writing and the launch timed away from your clients' planned shutdown windows.
What you own
Source code, app store accounts, the dispatch console, hosting accounts and all crew, certificate and timesheet records, held in your company's own name.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the app can include

Features for crews, certificates and rotations, not just single shifts.

Temporary work in the Dammam area looks different from the capital or the Red Sea coast. Much of the demand comes from industrial clients in the city's industrial estates, in Jubail Industrial City to the north, and around King Abdulaziz Port, where a planned maintenance shutdown or a surge in container traffic can call for dozens of skilled people within days. Clients care less about how quickly an individual claims a shift and more about whether the whole crew arrives with valid safety training, the right trade tests and a gate pass. Workers often live in company accommodation and travel by bus, sometimes long distances between Dammam, Khobar and Jubail, and many sites limit phone use beyond the gate. The features below reflect that reality, and we order them in discovery by the risks your clients audit most closely.

Explain your project
  • Crew requisitions

    Clients raise a requisition for a crew, such as a supervisor, four fitters and six helpers for a set number of days, rather than posting single shifts. Dispatchers fill each position from the pool, see gaps by trade at a glance, and send the client a proposed crew list for approval before anyone travels.

    Crews approved by the client before they reach the site.

  • Certificate wallet

    Each worker carries a digital record of trade tests, safety courses, medical fitness and site inductions, with expiry dates and the issuing body. The app refuses to propose a person whose certificate will lapse during the assignment, and warns both the worker and dispatcher weeks before renewal is due.

    No crew turned away at the gate for an expired card.

  • Trade and skill matching

    Workers are tagged by trade, grade, equipment they can operate and sites they already know. When a requisition asks for a pipe fitter with experience at a particular plant, the dispatcher sees ranked candidates who meet every requirement, with availability and current location, instead of scrolling a spreadsheet with hundreds of rows and outdated notes.

    The right trade in the right position, found in minutes.

  • Rotation and rest planning

    Day and night rotations, back to back shifts and rest periods are planned in one view. The app applies the working hour and rest rules you configure, highlights fatigue risks when a worker is booked across two contracts, and shows the client a rotation plan rather than a list of names.

    Rotations that respect rest rules and survive an audit.

  • Gate access lists

    Approved crews generate the access list each site security team asks for, with identity numbers, trades and induction status, exported in the client's format. Changes after approval are tracked, so a late replacement never arrives without the gate having been told.

    Site security receives correct names before the bus arrives.

  • Bus and accommodation routing

    Workers are grouped by accommodation and destination site, with pickup times and bus numbers on their phones. A dispatcher moving a crew from a Dammam yard to a Jubail plant sees immediately which buses change and which workers need earlier pickups, and drivers confirm boarding at each stop.

    Crews reach distant sites together and on time.

  • Offline supervisor check in

    Many plants do not allow personal phones past the gate. Supervisors confirm attendance from a rugged tablet or at the entry point, and the app stores records offline until a connection returns, then syncs them with timestamps intact so hours cannot be quietly edited later.

    Attendance captured even where phones are not allowed.

  • Supervisor timesheet sign off

    At the end of each shift or week, the client's supervisor signs the crew timesheet on the tablet, with overtime and standby hours marked separately. Disputes are raised against a specific line, so finance resolves one entry instead of rejecting the whole sheet.

    Signed hours your client cannot dispute a month later.

  • Cost code invoicing

    Industrial clients often want hours split by work order, cost centre or purchase order. The app tags every approved hour accordingly and produces invoices in the structure your ZATCA e-invoicing setup and the client's procurement team require, which shortens the time from shift to payment.

    Invoices that match the client's own cost codes.

  • Worker pay and deductions

    Approved hours flow into worker pay with allowances and agreed deductions applied, and the payroll file is prepared for your bank and for Mudad. Each worker sees a breakdown of hours, rate type and payment date in the app, in Arabic, English or the language they chose.

    Fewer pay queries from workers living far from the office.

Who this is for

Four Eastern Province businesses that need more than a shift app.

On-demand staffing app development in Dammam rarely means a consumer gig marketplace. The firms that come to us usually run a skilled workforce on behalf of industrial and logistics clients, with strict site rules and long payment terms. These are the four situations we see most, and how the first release changes for each. If you serve clients in more than one of these ways, we plan the first release around whichever brings the most hours each month.

01

A manpower contractor supplying plant maintenance

You place skilled trades and helpers with energy, petrochemical and utility clients, sometimes hundreds of people across several sites. The first release centres on certificates, crew requisitions and gate lists, because a single expired card or missing name can hold a whole crew outside. Rotation planning and cost code invoicing follow once the core records are trusted. Dispatchers working out of offices in Dammam or Khobar get a console built for long lists and quick filters, not a stretched mobile screen.

Compliance records first, convenience features second.

02

A shutdown and turnaround specialist

Your work peaks in short, intense windows when a plant stops for maintenance. Demand jumps, then falls back. The app needs fast mobilisation, rest rule checks across double shifts, and live headcount by trade for the client's shutdown manager. We design for a few weeks of extreme load and the quiet months between them. After each turnaround the app's records show which workers performed well, so the next mobilisation starts with a stronger shortlist.

03

A logistics operator around the port

Warehouses and yards serving King Abdulaziz Port and the industrial estates see volumes move with vessel arrivals. We build shift extensions a supervisor can approve from a phone, licence checks for forklift and equipment operators, and transport that adapts when a crew is held back for an extra few hours. Port side clients can also see which crews are on standby for the next arrival.

04

A facility services firm across Khobar and Dhahran

Cleaning, security and hospitality support for offices, compounds, malls and hotels needs reliable cover for absences rather than large crews. A lighter app lets site managers request replacements, matches workers by site familiarity, and keeps attendance tidy for monthly client reports. Monthly reports show each client which posts were covered, by whom and for how long, which supports renewal conversations.

A lighter build for steady, recurring cover.

Six stages from first call to crews dispatched through your app.

  1. 01Remote discoveryVideo sessions with dispatch, HSE, finance and site supervisors, plus walkthroughs of your current spreadsheets, certificate folders and gate list templates.
  2. 02Client rule catalogueWe document each major client's certificate, induction, rest and invoicing rules, so the app can enforce them per contract rather than as one generic standard.
  3. 03Field tested designDispatch console, supervisor tablet screens and worker app designed for gloves, sunlight and patchy signal, then reviewed with supervisors over video.
  4. 04Iterative buildFeatures land in a test environment every sprint, and your dispatchers rehearse a real requisition from start to signed timesheet before we continue.
  5. 05Single contract pilotLaunch on one client contract away from shutdown season, compare app records with paper ones for a full cycle, and fix gaps before wider rollout.
  6. 06Rollout and supportRemaining contracts move across in planned steps, with monitoring during mobilisations and a support line your dispatchers can reach when it matters.

Technology

What we build this with.

Cross platform apps for workers and supervisors with offline storage, a web console for dispatch and clients, and cloud hosting placed where your data and client contracts require. Everything is documented so your own team can maintain it. Integrations with payroll and accounting are built through documented interfaces.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions Dammam contractors ask before they build.

We set the timing in discovery and avoid your clients' shutdown windows.

A crew app with certificates, requisitions and timesheets for one contractor is a different size of project from a platform serving many clients with rotations, transport and cost code invoicing. After discovery we write down the first release scope, review dates and pilot contract. We also plan go live for a quieter period, since nobody wants to change tools during a turnaround. Remaining contracts then move across in stages, each one confirmed by your dispatch team before the next.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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