FOR HVAC & PLUMBING CONTRACTORS
HR for HVAC & Plumbing. Built for Techs, Trucks & On-Call.
HR built for HVAC and plumbing contractors — technician recruiting, license tracking, on-call and overtime compliance, and retention tuned to how your shop actually runs. We know the trades cold.
Built for shop owners running install crews, service techs, and on-call rotations.
WHAT HVAC & PLUMBING HR RISK COSTS
$98,800/yr
Avg. salary of a single in-house HR manager
30% of salary
Cost to replace a trained service technician
On-call OT
Wage & hour exposure from after-hours calls
10 hrs/wk
Owner time reclaimed with HR offloaded
SOUND FAMILIAR?
HVAC & plumbing HR breaks under load.
Seasonal spikes, on-call rotations, licensed trades, and trucks on the road make contractor HR uniquely risky.
01
Skilled techs are almost impossible to find
The tech shortage is real. Without a real pipeline and an apprenticeship path, you’re stuck poaching, overpaying, or running short-handed in peak season.
02
On-call and overtime is a wage claim waiting to happen
After-hours calls, drive time, and on-call pay rules vary by state. Miscalculate it across a crew and one complaint becomes a class action.
03
Licensing and certs slip through the cracks
EPA 608, journeyman and master licenses, and continuing ed get tracked on a whiteboard — until one lapses and a job (or your insurance) is on the line.
04
Turnover eats your install and service margin
Every tech who quits takes training, callbacks, and route capacity with them. Replacing a trained tech can run 30% of salary.
05
Seasonal demand wrecks your hiring
Heat waves and freeze events force panic hiring, so onboarding gets skipped and quality — and safety — slip when it matters most.
06
New techs get thrown on a truck and quit
No structured ride-along or 30/60/90 onboarding, so apprentices and junior techs wash out before they ever become profitable.
HOW WE HELP
HR tuned for the way a shop runs.
Recruiting, compliance, and retention built around install crews, service routes, and on-call rotations.
PARTNER
Pipelines That Staff Your Trucks
High-volume tech recruiting plus an apprenticeship-to-journeyman path, so you build talent instead of bidding for it — and trucks stay staffed through peak season.
FOUNDATION
On-Call, OT & License Compliance
We get on-call, drive-time, and overtime pay right across states, and keep EPA 608, journeyman/master licenses, and DOT records current and audit-ready.
PARTNER
Onboarding That Makes Techs Stay
Structured ride-along training and 30/60/90 onboarding so apprentices and new hires make it past month three — and your replacement spend drops.
SERVICES & PRICING
Choose Your Partnership Level
Foundation starts at $500/mo for 1–9 people. Partner and Strategic scale with your headcount and complexity — same pricing across every industry.
Foundation
Build the base.
Starting at $500/mo
✓ Employee handbook & policies
✓ Job descriptions library
✓ Compliance templates
✓ Monthly strategy sessions
✓ Anytime HR support
MOST POPULAR
Partner
Execute alongside you.
Custom Pricing
✓ Everything in Foundation
✓ Talent acquisition & recruiting
✓ Onboarding & offboarding
✓ Payroll & benefits admin
✓ Employee relations
Strategic
Lead your people strategy.
Custom Pricing
✓ Everything in Partner
✓ Performance management
✓ Compensation design
✓ Succession planning
✓ Quarterly business reviews
CLIENT STORY
“SimplyHR understands the trades. They fixed our on-call overtime before it bit us, set up a real apprenticeship pipeline, and got our licensing tracking out of a spreadsheet. Our trucks stay staffed and turnover is way down.”
[Client Name — Placeholder] · Owner, [HVAC / Plumbing Company]
$98,800/yr
Average in-house HR manager salary. Get an entire HR team that knows the trades for a fraction of that.
Keep the trucks staffed and the citations away.
Free initial consultation. We’ll tell you exactly where your field-workforce risk is — whether you hire us or not.