Site and project leaders who can run the job.
For privately-owned commercial builders across South East Queensland. One wrong senior hire can wipe the profit off a whole job. You get someone who's run the job and knows the difference between a real operator and a good talker.
You take on someone who interviews like a dream and reads great on paper. Three months later the job's behind, the subbies have stopped listening, and your good people are carrying the weight.
Site managers, project managers and contract administrators on commercial jobs
Privately-owned commercial builders, 50 to 250 staff
Fit-outs, new builds and refurbishments roughly $10m to $80m
Directors and ops bosses who've been burned and now hire on trust
A read on temperament and respect, not just the CV
Not for builders chasing the cheapest CV, and not for anything residential, because I've never worked in that world and won't pretend I have.
One bad hire poisons the morale, the culture and the trust on site, and it's never just the money. You get someone who's sat in the chair and cleaned up after the people who only talked a good game.
- Only people I'd put on my own site
- Straight talk on every person, the good and the gaps
- The honest read on the market, even when it isn't what you want to hear
- Senior leaders who can run the job from week one, no babysitting
- Talk through the real risk
We start with the job and what a wrong hire would actually cost you, not a brief and a deadline.
- A short, hand-picked shortlist
You see a handful of people I'd vouch for, not twenty CVs that don't fit.
- Meet only the right ones
Every person I put in front of you is someone I'd put on my own site.
Privately-owned mid-size builders are good operators who care about their jobs and their people. The big agencies fight over the tier-ones and hand these builders a junior who's never set foot on a site. I came up with these builders. I started as a leading hand at 19, worked up through site supervisor and site manager, and have run my own jobs the last six years, schools, two hospitals and a big aged-care project, up to about $80m. I know this world from the mud up, not from a textbook, and when I do my job right, the worry that keeps a director up the night before a senior hire just goes away.