Launching October 2026 · West Midlands · Founding intake open

Machine down. Engineer sick.
Cover moving in minutes.

Shiftt puts your shift in front of vetted maintenance engineers who apply at their own rate. You pay the rate plus a flat 10%, and only for hours worked and approved. No agency, no markup, no chasing.

Flat 10% on top of the engineer's rate, against 30 to 50% at agencies · and only for hours worked and approved
70+ vetted engineers on the bench
7 stage verification
GPS verified timesheets
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Engineering shift cover
Urgent
£48/hr guide
Electrical maintenance
FMCG Site, Coventry CV6
Tomorrow, 18:00 to 06:00
Paid on completion
Your rate £52/hr
Open
£42/hr guide
Multiskilled maintenance
Logistics Co., Birmingham B7
Mon 15 Jun, 06:00 to 18:00
Engineers
Shifts
My Shifts
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Built around how sites actually run, not how agencies bill.

Post the gap, see verified engineers apply at their own rate, accept the one you want. No three day wait for a callback, no markup buried in an hourly rate, no invoice for a shift nobody turned up to.

Minutes, not days

Shifts are posted, browsed and applied for in real time. Cover sickness, holidays, breakdowns and shutdowns while the line is still down, not the following week.

Vetted, not pot luck

Every engineer clears 7 stage verification and a competency assessment before they can apply for anything. Right to work, qualifications, insurance, tested. You know who is walking through the gate.

£

Hours worked and approved

Payment triggers on your timesheet approval, nothing sooner. If the engineer does not show, there is no timesheet and no charge. That is not a promise bolted on, it is how the platform is built.

★ Ten founding employer places

Flat 10%, locked for 12 months.

The founding intake is limited to ten businesses. They get terms that will not be offered again, a direct line to the founder, and first pick of the verified engineer bench. Agencies typically charge 30% to 50% on every hour worked. On Shiftt the engineer keeps 100% of the rate they set, and the 10% sits on top.

10%
Flat platform fee, on top of the rate
against agencies at 30 to 50%. Locked for 12 months
70+
Vetted engineers signed
7
Verification stages
10%
Flat fee · agencies 30 to 50%
25mi
West Midlands launch zone

Shift cover in three steps

From a gap on the rota to an approved timesheet, without a phone call to an agency.

1

Post the shift

Date, discipline, site and a guide rate. Around 90 seconds. Your shift goes live to verified engineers in your radius and nobody else. Employers only ever see their own shifts, never a competitor's.

2

Verified engineers apply at their rate

Every applicant has passed 7 stage verification, including right to work, proof of qualification and a competency assessment for their discipline. You see the profile, the credentials and the rate before you accept anyone.

3

GPS timesheet, one invoice

The engineer clocks in on site by GPS. You approve the timesheet, pay one invoice to Shiftt, and the engineer is paid 100% of their rate through the platform. No show, no timesheet, no charge.

Founding employers

Ten founding places before launch.

Shiftt is a startup built from inside the industry, aimed at the gap agencies have left in engineering shift cover. The founding intake is limited: ten businesses get terms that will not be offered again, and grow with the platform from day one.

  • Flat 10% locked for 12 months. The founding rate, held for your first year whatever the standard fee becomes after launch
  • Pay only for hours worked and approved. Payment triggers on your timesheet approval. No show, no timesheet, no charge
  • Direct line to the founder. Owen is your contact from day one. No support queue, no account manager handoff
  • First pick of the engineer bench. Priority visibility of the verified engineers already signed up across the West Midlands
  • You set the payment terms. Choose paid on completion or 30 day net when you post the shift. One invoice, no contractor payment admin, no contract lock in, no minimum volume
Claim a founding place
Your Shift 3 verified applicants

Night shift: electrical engineer

JC
James Carter
Electrical · 8yr · Coventry
£50/hr
SR
Sarah Robinson
Multiskilled · 5yr · Birmingham
£46/hr
MK
Mike Khan
Electrical · 12yr · Walsall
£54/hr
For engineers

Your rate. All of it.

Free for engineers to sign up. The 10% platform fee is paid by the employer on top of your rate, never out of it. Browse open shifts, apply at the number you want, and work the pattern that suits you.

  • Name your own rate. Apply at the number that works for you, not a number an agency negotiated on your behalf
  • Keep 100% of it. No deductions, no agency cut, nothing skimmed from your pay
  • Terms shown before you apply. Every shift states whether it is paid on completion or 30 day terms, so you know when the money lands before you commit
  • Work that fits your pattern. Your rest days, your radius, your disciplines, with IR35 status shown per shift
  • A verified profile carrying your qualifications, competency result and shift ratings, so employers accept you faster
Join the engineer bench
Open Shift Posted 2h ago

Multiskilled maintenance engineer

Example Manufacturing Ltd
Birmingham, B7
Monday 15 June, 06:00 to 18:00
Paid on completion
Set your rate
£44/hour

Every engineer clears 7 stages before they work

No pot luck. No unverified turn ups. When you accept an engineer on Shiftt you know they are qualified, insured and tested, and their profile shows the evidence.

1

Register

Identity and right to work

2

Email verified

Confirmed contact

3

Profile and skills

Discipline and experience

4

Competency assessment

20 questions, per discipline

5

Compliance documents

Insurance and qualifications

6

Contractor terms

Ltd company terms agreed

7

Payout details

Business bank details for shift payments

Stage 4 · Competency assessment

20 questions. Three areas. One standard.

Before an engineer can apply for a single shift they pass a randomised 20 question assessment. It covers health and safety, general aptitude, and technical questions specific to their chosen discipline.

75%
Pass mark: 15 of 20 correct A failed attempt means a 7 day cooldown before a retake
Health and safety 8 questions
Discipline specific technical 7 questions
General aptitude 5 questions
Technical questions are matched to the engineer's primary discipline: controls and automation, electrical maintenance, mechanical maintenance, or multiskilled with an electrical or mechanical bias.

Five disciplines, one standard

Engineers pick a primary discipline at registration and are tested against it, then add further specialisms to their profile as they go.

Controls and automation
Electrical maintenance
Mechanical maintenance
Multiskilled (elec bias)
Multiskilled (mech bias)

Built by an engineer who lives this problem.

Owen Morgan · Founder · Maintenance engineer, 21/7 automated site

I lead a team of seven engineers on a round the clock automated production site in Birmingham. When someone calls in sick at 2am, I am the one ringing round. I have watched agencies charge 30 to 50% 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. Verified engineers, honest rates they set themselves, a flat 10%, and payment that only happens when the timesheet is approved. I built it myself, and I will personally look after the founding employers who come on board.

Every enquiry gets a personal reply from me within 24 hours.

Access is by invitation

Shiftt launches across the West Midlands in October 2026, within 25 miles of Birmingham. Founding employers are set up before launch, by hand, one at a time. There are ten places and no open sign up. Leave your details and Owen replies personally, usually within 24 hours.

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 30% to 50% 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.
Everything runs through the platform. The employer sets the payment terms when they post the shift, either paid on completion or 30 day net, and those terms are shown on the shift before any engineer applies. After the shift the employer approves the GPS verified timesheet and pays Shiftt, and Shiftt releases the engineer's payment 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 completes 7 stage verification before they can work: identity and right to work, qualifications, insurance, a competency assessment for their discipline, contractor terms, and payout details. Profiles show verified credentials, ratings from completed shifts, and IR35 status per shift. Employers are verified against Companies House.
20 multiple choice questions drawn at random: 8 on health and safety, 7 technical questions matched to the engineer's chosen discipline, and 5 on general aptitude. The pass mark is 75%, so 15 of 20. A failed attempt means a 7 day cooldown before a retake. Every question is written and reviewed by experienced maintenance engineers, not recruiters and not AI.
Ten places in the founding intake, limited to the first ten businesses. Founding terms: flat 10% locked for 12 months from launch, 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, and 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.
Access is by invitation until launch. There are only ten founding employer places, so accounts are set up by hand rather than opened to anyone who lands on this page. It also means your site is configured and your first shift walked through with you rather than left to a help article. Leave your details here and Owen replies personally, usually within 24 hours.
Shiftt launches in October 2026, operating in the West Midlands within a 25 mile radius of Birmingham. Density beats geography: focusing on one region means posted shifts actually get filled fast. Additional regions follow once the launch zone is proven. Founding employer onboarding runs up to launch, which is why the intake is open now.

The next 2am breakdown
doesn't have to be yours to fix.

Ten founding employer places. 70+ vetted engineers already on the bench. Launching October 2026.