Trades RoofersHiring and team

Roofer Business HiringYou need a second crew on the roof, and you cannot face training another one who leaves.

Hiring for a roofing business: finding roofers who can be trusted on a two-storey pitch, paying them under the right award, and keeping them once storm season ends. This page is for the owner who is the bottleneck on every single job.

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A painted scene of two roofers stripping old tile off a suburban roof, battens and sarking exposed, rooftops behind

The week this is about

Sound Like Your Roofing Business?

You cannot find anyone you would put on a roof

Plenty of blokes will turn up. Very few you would leave alone on a two-storey pitch with a nail gun and a customer watching. So you keep doing the hard sections yourself, and the business never gets past your own two hands.

The award question nobody can answer for you

Your roof plumber sits under one award and your tiler sits under another, per Fair Work Ombudsman summaries. Different rates, different allowances, different overtime, on the same job. You guess, pay a bit over, and hope nobody ever audits it.

Hire hard in a hail run, let them go by autumn

Storm work forces you to put on labour fast, with no induction and no real check. When the claims dry up you cannot keep them, so they leave, and the next surge starts you back at nothing all over again.

Staying a one-crew business forever, doing the awkward sections yourself at fifty, because nobody was ever trained well enough to be trusted with them.

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 Academy's hiring, team and leadership training gives you a way to recruit, induct and keep roofers who can run a job without you standing there. 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.

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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.

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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 Roofing Business Hiring Actually Changes.

Three things roofing business owners walk away able to do.

Put a leading hand on a re-roof and stay off that site all week

Pay every roofer and apprentice under the correct award with confidence

Induct a new hire on heights, SWMS and your process in their first week

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

Roofer Business Hiring, Answered.

Which award do I pay my roofers under?

It depends what they do. Roof plumbers are covered by the Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award MA000036, and roof tilers by the Building and Construction Award MA000020, per Fair Work Ombudsman award summaries. A mixed crew can therefore sit across two awards on the same job, with different rates and allowances.

How do I stop a good roofer leaving after storm season?

By giving them work that does not depend on hail, and a reason to stay beyond the money: a role, a path, and someone who runs the business properly. Owners who keep crews have year-round work planned before the surge ends.

Should I take on a roofing apprentice or hire an experienced hand?

It depends on whether you have anything to hand them. An apprentice needs a process, supervision and time you may not have while you are still on the tools yourself. An experienced roofer costs more and produces sooner. Get your systems and your induction right first, then either choice works.

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