TradesHVAC TechniciansHiring and team

HVAC Business HiringTicketed techs are hard to find, and good ones leave a business that runs on chaos.

Hiring for air conditioning and refrigeration owners who need more hands and cannot afford another bad one. Getting the award classification right, paying apprentices properly, building a crew that can commission without you, and keeping the people you train.

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A painted scene of a trade business owner home before dark, sitting on the tray of his ute while his son runs to meet him

The week this is about

Sound Like Your Air Conditioning Business?

You hire in a panic in the middle of summer

The diary is full, a tech has gone, and you take whoever answers the ad. Two months later you are covering their callbacks and paying for a ute they cannot fill a day with. Hiring under pressure always costs more than the wage.

You are not certain which award covers your techs

The Fair Work Ombudsman publishes an article on award coverage for air conditioning tradespersons and refrigeration mechanics because it genuinely is confusing. Electrical, Manufacturing or Building and Construction, each with different rates, allowances and penalties. Get it wrong and the back pay is yours.

You train an apprentice for four years and lose them

You carry them through the slow first year, put them through their handling licence, get them useful, and then a bigger outfit offers them more money. There is nothing holding them, because you never built anything worth staying for.

The wrong hire in a busy season costs you twice: once in wages, and again in the customers who quietly stop calling.

Hiring and team

Here Is What We Do About It.

TSA covers the whole team side. Hiring, team and leadership training shows you how to write the role, run the interview, classify the position and onboard properly. Tradie Teams puts you with owners solving the same crew problems in air conditioning right now. Freedom Fighter 1:1 builds the structure so the business holds people without you managing every day.

A complimentary coaching call

Thirty minutes on what is capping the business, and what to fix first.

Learning Hub

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

Freedom Fighter 1:1

One to one with your own dedicated expert, built around getting the owner free.

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

The coaching goes into 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.

What changes

What Air Conditioning Business Hiring Actually Changes.

Three things air conditioning business owners walk away able to do.

Classify a technician or apprentice correctly and know the true hourly cost before you offer

Run a hiring process you can repeat in autumn instead of scrambling in January

Set out a pay and progression path that gives a good tech a reason to stay

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Questions

HVAC Business Hiring, Answered.

Which award applies to a refrigeration mechanic I want to employ?
It turns on what your business does, not only on the job title. The Fair Work Ombudsman publishes dedicated guidance because the work can fall under the Electrical, Manufacturing or Building and Construction award, and the Building and Construction award has an air conditioning and refrigeration industry allowance. Confirm coverage first. TSA training then shows you how to cost the role properly.
Is it worth taking on an apprentice in an air conditioning business?
It can be, but only with a plan. An apprentice cannot work unsupervised on refrigerant, so year one costs you supervision time as well as wages. The return comes in years three and four, and only if you still have them. TSA training covers the cost model, the supervision structure and how to keep them once they are useful.
How do I stop my best technician leaving for a bigger company?
Money is rarely the whole story. Techs leave businesses that are disorganised, where jobs run late because nobody planned them and the ute is never stocked. Fix the systems, set a clear progression path, and pay to the market you benchmarked. Tradie Teams and coaching work through exactly this with owners who have already done it.

HVAC Technicians

The Other Ways We Help HVAC Technicians.

Training

HVAC Business Training

Structured training that turns what hvac technicians know on the tools into a business that runs properly.

Coaching

HVAC Business Coaching

A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding hvac technicians to the plan.

Systems

HVAC Business Systems

The documented process that lets the work happen properly when hvac technicians are not standing there.

The free app

HVAC Business App

Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for hvac technicians with an active ABN.

Marketing and leads

HVAC Business Marketing

How hvac technicians get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.

Pricing and profit

HVAC Business Pricing

The number hvac technicians should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.

Everything for hvac technicians

Talk It Through First.

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The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your complimentary coaching session. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.

Turning over $20k a month or more? Thirty minutes, one on one with a trade business coach, on what is capping the business and what to fix first.