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HR & Onboarding · Pacific Northwest Trades
HR & Onboarding Systems for Trades Contractors in Oregon, Washington & Idaho
Finding good people is hard enough. Losing them because the onboarding is disorganized, or because there's no accountability structure for them to work inside, is fixable. We fix it.
The problem
What hr & onboarding systems for trades contractors means for a trades business.
HR and onboarding infrastructure for a trades business covers everything from how you find candidates to how you get them productive in the field. It includes your hiring process and where you post, how you screen, how you make offers, and how you bring new hires into the operation with documentation that protects the business and a structure that actually gets them producing. We serve HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors across the Pacific Northwest.
The typical trades business hiring process is whoever the owner knows or whoever answered the ad, followed by a week of riding along with a senior tech, followed by solo deployment and hoping for the best. That process produces inconsistent results and high turnover. A documented system produces better hires and keeps them longer.
New hires get productive faster because onboarding runs from a documented standard rather than improvisation
The hiring process repeats cleanly each time without requiring the owner to rebuild it from scratch
Employment documentation is complete and protects the business from liability
Turnover decreases because expectations are set clearly from the first day
Role-specific performance standards exist and give the management team something concrete to manage to
The business becomes less dependent on any single employee because processes are documented, not just known
Signals you need this
Who needs this.
Trades owners whose biggest fear when a key employee leaves is that nobody else knows how to do what they did
Businesses where training a new hire requires months of side-by-side time with the owner or a senior employee
Operations where quality is inconsistent because different people approach the same task differently
Any owner trying to build a business that doesn't depend on their daily presence and personal institutional knowledge
Companies adding headcount faster than their HR and documentation infrastructure can responsibly support
Three or more and there's real money sitting in the gap. Usually it's not one big leak. It's a few small ones that compound every month.
Before and after
Without HR and onboarding systems vs. With Sentric's HR infrastructure
What we build
Hiring paperwork that runs itself.
Onboarding on a checklist
From offer to first solo day, every step documented and assigned. Every hire gets the same runway.
A defensible paper trail
I-9s, acknowledgments, and reviews stored and findable. Compliance stops depending on a drawer.
Exits handled cleanly
Termination steps that protect the business and treat people properly, documented before you ever need them.
We build it inside the tools you already pay for. If your field service platform and your accounting software can talk to each other, we make them. If something genuinely has to change, we'll say so and tell you why, but the tool was rarely the problem.
How it works
Three steps. No homework.
Walk one job
Thirty minutes. We take a real job, warts and all, and follow it from the day you sold it to the day the money hit the account. Every place it catches gets written down. You keep what we find whether you ever hire us or not.
Rank the friction
HR & Onboarding Systems might not even be your biggest leak. If something else is costing you more, we'll tell you and start there instead.
Build it and run it
We build the fix, train your people on it, and stay on it until it holds. Then we take the next one. Everything we build is documented and yours, whether you keep us for a year or just a month.
Questions
What owners ask us first.
Do you require long-term contracts?
No. Month to month. You stay because the work is delivering.
What cities do you serve?
We serve trades contractors throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. See the full city list below.
How long does implementation take?
Most system builds run 30 to 60 days depending on the state of your current setup. The free audit tells us what we are working with before we scope the build.
Can you work with our existing bookkeeper or CPA?
Yes. Our work is on the operational and technology side. We make sure your financial partners get clean, accurate data to work with.
How is this different from hiring an office manager?
An office manager executes inside whatever systems exist. We build the architecture and manage it so the systems stay current as the business grows.
What trades do you work with?
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors doing $2M to $8M in annual revenue across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
What does the free 30-minute audit cover?
We review your current systems, find where margin or time is leaking, and tell you what it is costing. No pitch and no commitment.
Do you implement or only advise?
We implement and manage. We configure your tools, document your processes, and run the systems ongoing.
Where we work
HR & Onboarding Systems across the Northwest.
All work is remote, so location never changes what we can do. These pages cover the market specifics for each city.
Portland, ORSalem, OREugene, ORBend, ORMedford, ORHillsboro, ORGresham, ORCorvallis, ORAlbany, ORGrants Pass, ORRoseburg, ORKlamath Falls, OR
Seattle, WASpokane, WATacoma, WAVancouver, WABellevue, WAKennewick, WAYakima, WABellingham, WAOlympia, WAEverett, WA
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Thirty minutes is enough to find out if this is a problem in your operation.
The audit is free. No pitch. No commitment. A straight read on where your systems stand.
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