A short YouTube talk by Adam Sand describing five essential qualities of an effective foreman at Sergeants Roofing—roofing ability, leadership, integrity, site management, and teamwork—and the company’s foreman career progression (sergeant → master sergeant → site superintendent) including pay/benefits and expectations around quality and production.
What does it take to be a great foreman for sergeants roofing? Whether you're looking at hiring us or looking to be hired by us, this is a video you're going to want to watch. There's five things that make up a great foreman, in my opinion. The first is roofing ability. Yes, it's an important part of the job. It's not the only thing. It's only about 20%, but it is important to know your skills and be able to teach and train them to others. That's where leadership comes in. And that's just not your ability to boss people around, but to lead from the front and to get emotional, motivate people who are going to want to take the hill with you. The third thing is integrity. You have to do the right thing when nobody's looking. As a foreman, it's your job to make sure that our company values and the customer's work order is being executed on even the things that we're not going to be able to see after the job is done. The other thing is of course, site management. There's more to roofing than just roofing. You're on a construction site that's on someone's home, in someone's neighborhood, amongst their friends and their family is going to be there. You have to make sure it's clean when it's done and you have to make sure you're good ambassadors of the company while you're in the community where other people are seeing you. It's got to be safe and it's got to be clean. And the last thing is of course, teamwork. This is not a solo sport. This is something that we do as a team. And you have to be able to help each other and pull from the front and make sure that everybody goes home safe and feeling redeemed, knowing that they did something that's important. These are people's number one investment that we're taking care of. And you need to make sure that the whole team understands that their job means something. And so what we do is we want to hire you as an in house guy. We want to pay you overtime and benefits and all these kinds of things. And that's what we have, two levels of form, the sergeant and the master sergeant, all with a career progression, working towards the site superintendent. A sergeant is a master sergeant in training. It's a foreman who isn't quite meeting the production goals yet and isn't quite meeting the size of crew. And the most important thing is quality. The second most important thing is the quantity of work that you can complete. Once you're meeting those two targets, then you become a master sergeant, which is going to be like a $34 an hour job with a paid truck, and you're going to get overtime. Then if you manage to train foreman up underneath you, what's going to happen next is you're going to become a site superintendent. And that's where you actually get another truck to go drive around and make sure that those three foremen that you groomed, that you raised, that you taught and grow in this industry, those guys, you're going to be now managing them and making sure that they're working their way towards becoming a site superintendent too. That's the career progression that we see for foreman. And so if you're looking to hire us, you can know that we're giving a big, big opportunity. These guys. And if you're looking to find the right place to work, you can know that your career doesn't stop at running a crew. Your career stops at the sky. You can do anything you want in this business. If you want to sell, work your way up to general manager or go open up a new branch. That's what we want for you and that's we want for our customers. Thanks for watching this video and I hope you look forward to the next one.
