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.
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.
Hiring and team
Here Is What We Do About It.
TSA hiring, team and leadership training gives you a way to recruit, induct and keep roofers who can run a job without you standing there. Tradie Teams puts you with owners who have built crews already, and Freedom Fighter 1:1 gives you a dedicated expert working on your team structure.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
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.
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.
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 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
Questions
Roofer Business Hiring, Answered.
Which award do I pay my roofers under?
How do I stop a good roofer leaving after storm season?
Should I take on a roofing apprentice or hire an experienced hand?
Roofers
The Other Ways We Help Roofers.
Roofer Business Training
Structured training that turns what roofers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingRoofer Business Coaching
A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding roofers to the plan.
SystemsRoofer Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when roofers are not standing there.
The free appRoofer Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for roofers with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsRoofer Business Marketing
How roofers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitRoofer Business Pricing
The number roofers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Talk It Through First.
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.