The site hire that makes or breaks your margin
Senior site and project leaders for boutique commercial builders across South East Queensland. The kind who run the job, not just talk a good one.
On a $10-80m commercial job, one bad senior hire can wipe the margin off your year. You have probably already paid for that lesson once.
This is not for tier-one majors with their own talent teams, or firms that treat hiring as a price war.
A site manager still thriving and promoted two years on is worth more than any quick fill. The wrong one lets the job drift before anyone sees it in the cost report.
A short, hand-picked shortlist, not a stack of maybes
People who have run the job, not just sat near it
An honest read before you advertise or commit
Black and white feedback, no spin, no padding
Talk through the real risk
You tell me the job, the team and what went wrong last time.
A short, vouched shortlist
You see only people I would put my name to.
Meet the genuine operators
I can tell in ten minutes who has really run a tier-one job.
Boutique commercial builders cannot afford to get senior hiring wrong, and that is exactly who Rockhard works for. Eleven years as a site manager running $10-80m projects sits behind every shortlist, so a real operator gets spotted and a good talker gets weeded out. Senior construction hiring is broken by dodgy recruiters, and mid-size builders deserve better. The right person on site changes everything around them, and that is the placement worth making.
If your next senior hire has to be right, let's have a straight conversation about the job and the people who can actually run it.