Machine down.
Engineer sick.
Cover found tonight.
Post the shift and vetted maintenance engineers across the UK, with a West Midlands focus, apply at their own rate. You pay that rate plus a flat 10%, and only for hours worked and approved.
- 02:14Shift posted · Multi skilled engineer · FMCG site, Coventry · £46/hr
- 02:31First verified applicant · 6 miles away · applied at £46/hr
- 05:524 verified applicants · profiles and competency results attached
- 06:05Covered · engineer confirmed · GPS clock in ready
70+
vetted engineers signed
7
checks before an engineer can apply
10%
flat fee, agencies charge 20 to 40%
West Mids
launch focus, open to the whole UK
From sign up to covered shift
Four steps, and you will know every one of them before you start. Company checks happen once, then every shift after that is the last three.
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ONCE
Verify your company
We check you on Companies House and you set up a Direct Debit through Stripe, so engineers know the shift is real and will be paid.
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90 SECONDS
Post the shift
Date, discipline, site and a guide rate. It goes to verified engineers in your radius and nobody else.
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YOU CHOOSE
Engineers apply at their rate
See each applicant's verified qualifications, competency result and distance, then accept one.
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AFTER THE SHIFT
Approve the GPS timesheet
One invoice from Shiftt. The engineer is paid 100% of their rate. No show means no timesheet and no charge.
What one shift costs
The engineer's rate and our fee are always separate lines. Nothing is added after you approve.
- Pay Now: collected by Direct Debit shortly after timesheet approval.
- Net 30: due 30 days after approval, taken by Direct Debit on the due date.
- No show: no timesheet, no invoice, nothing to pay.
- Cancelling: releasing a booked engineer 48 hours or more before the start costs a £15 admin fee plus VAT where it applies. Later than that, you pay 4 hours at the agreed rate plus our fee.
| Engineer, 8.00h at £46.00 | £368.00 |
|---|---|
| Shiftt fee, flat 10% | £36.80 |
| VAT where it applies | + VAT |
| You pay | £404.80 + VAT |
An agency at 30% would charge £478.40 + VAT for the same engineer.
10 founding employer places
Terms that will not be offered again, for the first ten businesses.
- Flat 10% locked for 12 months, whatever the standard fee becomes.
- First pick of the engineer bench already signed up across the West Midlands.
- Owen sets you up personally, and stays your direct line. No support queue.
Claim a place
7 OF 10 LEFTor ask Owen to call you first
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Built by the engineer who rings round at 2am
Owen Morgan · Founder · Maintenance engineer on a 24/7 automated site
I lead a team of seven engineers on a round the clock production site in Birmingham. When someone calls in sick at 2am, I am the one ringing round. I have watched agencies charge 20 to 40% on top of an engineer's rate to send someone unvetted, late, or not at all.
Shiftt is the tool I wanted on those nights. I built it myself, and I will personally look after the founding employers who come on board.
Engineers: your rate, all of it
Free to join. The 10% fee is paid by the employer on top of your rate, never taken out of it. Payment timing is shown on every shift before you apply.
Create your engineer accountThe 7 checks, done once in the app
- Email confirmed
- Profile, trade and skills
- Competency assessment for your discipline
- Qualifications checked by our team
- Contractor terms and business details signed
- Right to work and identity, via TrustID
- Payout account set up with Stripe
Common questions
Shiftt is an on demand marketplace for engineering shift cover and short term project support. It connects companies with vetted, competency tested engineers for sickness and holiday cover, shutdowns, breakdowns, installations, testing and commissioning, and planned maintenance programmes. Engineers apply directly and set their own rate. No recruiters, and no waiting three days for cover.
Employers pay the engineer's rate plus a flat 10% platform fee, far below the 20% to 40% markups typical of recruitment agencies. Founding employers lock that flat 10% for their first 12 months. There is one invoice, full transparency: you always see the engineer's rate and the fee as separate lines, and the engineer receives 100% of their quoted rate through the platform. Free for engineers to sign up.
Each shift is posted with a payment term the employer sets, Pay Now or Net 30, and the engineer sees it before they apply. After the shift, the employer approves the GPS verified timesheet and pays Shiftt by Direct Debit. Once that payment has cleared, Shiftt pays the engineer in full. Engineers never chase invoices, employers never juggle contractor payments. If the engineer does not show, there is no timesheet and no charge.
Every engineer passes 7 checks before they can apply for a shift: email confirmed; profile, trade and skills; a competency assessment for their discipline; qualifications checked by our team; contractor terms and business details signed; right to work and identity, via TrustID; and a payout account set up with Stripe. Profiles show verified credentials, ratings from completed shifts, and per shift IR35 status. Employers are verified against Companies House.
Ten places for the beta intake, limited to the first ten businesses. Founding terms: flat 10% locked for 12 months, a direct line to Owen and help getting set up whenever you want it, priority visibility of the verified engineer bench, and the standard guarantee that you only pay for hours worked and approved. No contract lock in, no minimum volume.
Yes. Employers post a guide rate, engineers apply at their own number, and the employer chooses from the applicants. The rate you agree is the rate paid, the platform fee is charged to the employer on top, never deducted from the engineer. It also means the engineer who turns up chose the job at that rate, which shows in the work.
Shiftt is live in beta now. Our launch focus is the West Midlands, where the engineer bench is deepest and shifts fill fastest. Employers anywhere in the UK can post shifts too. Founding employer onboarding runs through October 2026.