Trades ConcretersHiring and team

Concreter Business HiringYou can win the work. Whether you can pour it depends on who turns up on Tuesday.

Hiring for concreting businesses. Finding finishers and labourers who show up, paying them correctly under the award, training them so the pour does not need you, and keeping them when the crew down the road offers an extra dollar.

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A painted scene of two concreters walking power floats across a freshly poured slab

The week this is about

Sound Like Your Concreting Business?

A good finisher is nearly impossible to find

Anyone can push a shovel. The bloke who can read a slab as it goes off, get the timing right on the trowel and leave a finish you would put your name on is rare, and the crew down the road has already offered him more.

The award is a maze and the risk is yours

The Building and Construction General On-site Award sets the minimum, the classification level decides the rate, and allowances for fares, travel and tools stack on top of it. Get it wrong and it is your problem, not theirs, and the rates move again every July.

Pour day falls apart when one man does not show

The truck is booked and cannot be moved for free. Six o'clock comes, one bloke is not answering, and you are ringing around while the batch plant loads. So you end up in the middle of the pour again, doing the job you hired someone else to do.

You stay stuck at the size your own two hands allow, because every attempt to grow the crew has cost you money, sleep or a job you had to go back and fix.

A trade business owner working alone at the kitchen table late at night, laptop open and paperwork spread across the table, work boots and tool bag by the door

Hiring and team

Here Is What We Do About It.

The hiring, team and leadership training covers where to find concreters worth having, how to bring them on so they can run a pour, and how to keep them. Greg works through the big hiring calls with you directly. And the hires have changed: agents can now do the quoting, invoicing and chasing your way, so the people you add are the ones facing your customers and leading your crew.

The Academy waitlist

The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.

Learning Hub

The full lesson library inside the Tradies App, self paced, $199/month.

Business Foundations

Weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, where you bring your own numbers.

Free tool, no sign-up

Apprentice cost calculator

Wages and on-costs are the easy part. This adds the weeks they are at trade school, the on-site hours that never reach an invoice, and the supervision time that pulls a qualified tradesperson off their own work, then gives you what one billable apprentice hour actually costs. It runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Work out the real cost

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

Hire before you are desperate

Every bad hire in this industry happens in the same week: the week you were already too busy. The training covers hiring on a plan instead of on a panic.

Step 2

Give them a system to follow

People do not fail because they are lazy. They fail because nobody wrote down what good looks like. That is why systems and hiring are the same problem.

Step 3

Lead them, then get off the tools

Greg works the bit that is genuinely hard: running a team when you were trained as a tradesperson, and letting go of work you can do faster yourself.

Greg Allan mid-explanation with his hands open, talking to a trade business owner across a desk

Why Greg

You speak to the owner who has already done it.

Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.

He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.

He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.

Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.

Read how Greg built a trade business that runs without him

What changes for you

The old way. The new way.

Illustration: a trade business owner standing over three office staff buried in paperwork at night. — The old way
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.

Illustration: a tradesman shaking hands with a homeowner in her driveway, his phone showing jobs quoted and invoiced. — The new way
You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.

The old way

More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.

Most trade businesses grow the same way.

More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.

None of it gets paid for.

So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.

Or hires an office person to do it.

The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.

And the owner is still the one everything waits on.

Where we take you

More work. More profit. More of you left.

The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.

You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.

Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.

The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.

The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.

The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.

Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.

What changes

What Concreting Business Hiring Actually Changes.

Three things concreting business owners walk away able to do.

Hire a concreter or labourer without guessing the award classification

Train a leading hand who can run a pour day without you on site

Keep good crew by leading properly instead of simply paying more

A trade business owner watching his child play sport on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand and phone face down — Nights and weekends back

A trade business owner and his partner in the kitchen looking at a tablet showing the numbers going up — Work that actually pays

A trade business owner shaking hands with a new apprentice in the work yard — A good hire who stays

A trade business owner standing calmly in the yard while his crew load two utes behind him — Out of the middle of everything

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Questions

Concreter Business Hiring, Answered.

What award and rates apply to the concreters I employ?

Most on site concreting work sits under the Building and Construction General On-site Award MA000020, where the classification level sets the base rate and allowances such as fares, travel and tools stack on top. Rates change with the annual wage review from 1 July. Fair Work publishes the pay guide, and our hiring training covers building it into your prices.

When can I afford my first employee or apprentice?

When the work is consistent enough that you are turning jobs down or working nights to keep up, and your pricing carries the wage plus allowances, superannuation and workers compensation. Apprentice rates are set separately by Fair Work and are lower, but the training time is real. The apprentice cost calculator on this site sizes it from your own numbers.

How do I stop good concreters leaving for an extra dollar?

People leave crews they are not led in, not just crews that pay less. Clear expectations, a proper induction, a path to leading hand and being paid correctly under the award beat a dollar an hour most of the time.

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