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People InfrastructureHuman Resources Consulting
HR built for construction: the policy, compliance, and retention systems that scale with your business.
Your operations are only as strong as your people.
Most growing contractors run HR off spreadsheets and instinct, until a compliance gap or turnover starts costing real money. Construction has its own HR realities: Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage, safety-driven culture, field-plus-office workforces, and thin margins that punish churn.
We build the HR foundation around those realities: policy, compliance, and retention, so keeping the right people stops being a fire drill and becomes a system. Available as a project or fractional HR leadership.
What HR consulting covers.
Employee handbooks & policyClear, compliant policies written for a construction business.
Onboarding & developmentGetting new team members productive and building your bench.
Davis-Bacon & prevailing wageSetting up the certified payroll and prevailing wage compliance process for Davis-Bacon and state-funded jobs, plus EEO, I-9, and E-Verify.
Compensation & benefitsPay and benefit structures that reward and retain your people.
Performance managementReview processes that actually improve performance.
Employee relationsHandling conflict and retention before people walk.
HRIS & payroll systemsSelecting and setting up the systems that run it all.
HR led by Lilla Sooter, SHRM-CP.
Our HR practice is led by Lilla Sooter, a SHRM-certified HR professional with experience in employee relations, onboarding, policy, and compliance across highly regulated industries. Read Lilla's background →
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