Best Practices: The Key Operational and Financial Metrics Tracked by Wireless Constructors

Best Practices: The Key Operational and Financial Metrics Tracked by Wireless Constructors

In Wireless Construction, projects move fast—but the critical data needed to track status, performance and costs often arrives too late.

In many cases, this data is scattered across multiple trackers and reliant on manual updates, creating inaccuracies, delays, and missed opportunities to take action when it matters most.

Fieldclix set out to change that.

We partnered with several leading wireless contractors to identify key metrics for monitoring project health and built a powerful, proven framework for tracking them—from the field to the back office.

The result is our consolidated Operational and Financial Dashboards.

Updated daily, they provide a single source of truth, giving teams access to the timely and accurate data they need to keep projects on track and on budget.


OPERATIONAL Metrics: Boosting Field Productivity and Project Performance

Operational Metrics: Boosting Field Productivity and Project Performance

For many active projects, even a single extra day on-site can mean the difference between success and failure. That’s why project teams need real-time visibility into on-site progress and productivity.

The following Project Dashboard provides that visibility, enabling teams to monitor key daily performance metrics across all active projects.

The following project status and performance metrics are tracked daily:

  • Daily crew hours on-site (by activity - civil, tower, integration)
  • Time spent away from the job-site (warehouse, supplier visits, drive time)
  • Budgeted labor hours and labor hours accrued to date
  • Projected labor hours at completion (over or under)
  • Overtime percentage for the project
  • Task completion with comments and photos (e.g. “Alpha Prepped,” “Beta Prepped”)

With these insights, Project Managers can monitor crew performance and quickly spot at-risk projects and make adjustments while there’s still time to make a difference.

The results speak for themselves: Fieldclix clients report a 10–15% increase in productive on-site time, enabling them to get more work done every day with their existing crews.


Financial Metrics: Ensuring Project Profitability

Financial Metrics: Ensuring Project Profitability

Tracking job cost data at the project level is critical for wireless construction — but many accounting systems rely on manual allocations. This means that job cost reports are often delayed or inaccurate and only available after the project is completed.

The following Fieldclix Budget Dashboard solves this challenge by automatically updating all job costs as they hit the project.

The Budget Dashboard allows project managers to dynamically track and manage important financial indicators at the project level, including:

  • Planned and actual revenue
  • All current Job Costs, including Labor, Materials, Contractors, Rentals, Credit Card purchases, etc.
  • Current Profit Margins (Project P&L)
  • Work in Progress (WIP) - Over/Under Billed + Over/Under Spend
  • Remaining Spend across all cost categories

Impact: The Budget Dashboard delivers a real-time view of each project’s financial health, helping Project Managers spot potential overruns early and take action to protect profit margins.


PROJECT STATUS: COMPANY-WIDE PERFORMANCE ACROSS PROJECTS AND DEPARTMENTS

PROJECT STATUS: Company-Wide Performance across Projects and Departments

The following Status Dashboard brings key operational and financial metrics into a single view, providing visibility into the performance of individual projects, employees, teams, and standalone regions.

Employees in different roles (Project Managers, Division Leads, Finance team) can get access to relevant status and tasks specific to their individual responsibilities, including:

Employees in different roles—Project Managers, Division Leads, and Finance Teams —can access status updates and performance metrics most relevant to their responsibilities, including:

  • Budgeted Revenue, Invoice Status, and Collections
  • Key Project Milestones (e.g. Construction Start: planned vs. actual)
  • Estimated Percentage Project Completion
  • Total Spend to Date and Remaining to Spend
  • Project, Program, Regional P&L and WIP
  • Remaining to Invoice and Cash Flow

The Staus Dashboard also helps track performance across employees, teams, and regions—empowering companies to scale with confidence.

Impact: This real-time visibility helps identify at-risk projects, improves forecasting, and supports data-driven decision-making at every level. It also boosts productivity and collaboration by eliminating the need to search through emails, cloud storage, or paper files to find critical operational data.


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Here are links to some wireless construction case studies focused on describing the benefits of operational and financial metrics:


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