Eric Carlisle - Connecting Sub Crews with Roofing Contractors

Editor's note: The following is the transcript of a live interview with Eric Carlisle of Labor Central. You can read the interview below or listen to the podcast. 

Speaker 1:

Welcome to Roofing Road Trips with Heidi. Explore the roofing industry through the eyes of a long-term professional within the trade. Listen for insights, interviews and exciting news in the roofing industry today.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Hello and welcome to another Roofing Road Trips from Roofer's Coffee Shop. This is Heidi Ellsworth, and I am sitting down again with just an amazing roofing professional who is bringing technology to one of our biggest pain points right now, and that's labor. How do we find skilled labor? How do we connect contractors with crews? What do we need to do? So welcome to the show again, Eric Carlisle with Labor Central.

Eric Carlisle:

Awesome. Thank you, Heidi. Thanks for having me here again to talk about this wonderful platform and a great help to the industry for sure.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Oh, it's the number one. We just did our RCS trends report. Number one issue; labor and how are you connecting the skilled labor with either through hiring them and/or bringing on crews. There is just such a need out there. So your technology and what you and your team at Labor Central are doing is just really so incredibly relevant to the industry right now.

Eric Carlisle:

It's funny you say that. It seems so simple, but at the end of the day, I mean, the world's... Hey, you can have all the parts you want, but you can't install them. And this is any industry. This isn't any magic theoretically. But it really has taken the steps in the technology world to kind of... Hey, how do you bring it all together? How do we find these guys? How do we connect?

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. Kind of like a dating service, just a little bit.

Eric Carlisle:

Maybe.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. Just a little bit. So before we get too far down that road, why don't you go ahead if you could, Eric, and introduce yourself and then we'll talk a little bit about what exactly Labor Central is doing?

Eric Carlisle:

For sure. Yeah. My name's Eric Carlisle, as you said. I am the marketing director and the technical director for Labor Central. Bringing both sides to it, how to attract, how to find and how to kind of marry, well, I shouldn't say, how to match crews and contractors in an app, so the technology behind it and trying to brainstorm and bring it and prove it all the time. But at the same time, what's relevant for these guys to use an app like us versus other traditional means. So... Yeah. That's my [inaudible 00:02:13].

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. And when did Labor Central Start?

Eric Carlisle:

Labor Central's probably about almost a year and a half old. We'll be two years old probably March of '23. So been ingrained in it for longer than that, which is the actual physical building and technical part of it for sure.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. It's never easy bringing technology to the industry, even when it's so incredibly needed because there's just such a learning curve a lot of times. Although it's getting better all the time.

Eric Carlisle:

Indeed. Well, if you're going to compare it to anything, right, that hey, get in some stranger's car with an app, well, that took a little while as well to adopt. Or Hey, wait, my mom said don't ride with strangers, but yet with an app that she can pick you up anywhere. It's similar for this. And again, in the construction industry, I don't care if it's architecture, planning, design, landscape architecture, these construction related AEC places slowly adopts or slower, more slowly adopts some of the technology because yeah, how do I know, right?

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

No different than anything we else use today.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

No. It's all coming together. So what are you seeing out there right now? I mean, you have been involved with IV roof systems before Labor Central. You've been involved in the industry for a long time. What are some of the things that you are seeing specifically that's affecting roofing companies when it comes to labor and let's like focus around sub crews that companies are looking for both commercial and residential?

Eric Carlisle:

Yeah, great. Awesome question. Maybe there's a couple pieces to this. On the sub crew side, what contractors usually looking for today, and this might derail in a second because of the storm chasing that happens. That's a, obviously that's a huge market of just, hey, storms happen. Things go, obviously, look at Florida right now, hurricane Ian, I mean, floods of labor have shifted to Fort Meyers, right? I mean.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Right.

Eric Carlisle:

If, I don't know how to say that correctly. If something happened to Fort Myers today, catastrophically, there'd be a whole lot of roofers that would be missing, if that makes sense. That's how many roofers are in the state of Florida today from all the United States, right? So affecting some of the storms is what we've seen. So Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, east coast, right? Some of the big heavy rains that happened there. You've got contractors that do great work, but how do they find crews? Cause they've got too much work. Terrible problem, right?

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

I've got too much work. But it is matching it up with labor to get things done, keep people safe, dry, right? Those are all those things that they want to do. On the crew side, it really is from the contractor perspective, how do we find the guys? How do we know? How can we really meet? Are they really qualified or how do we find the good qualified guys?

It's why the app like ours is so timely. We're [inaudible 00:04:59] in a place right now that, hey, how do we go instead of Facebook? And I know we've talked about these things, but as a crew, can I go find work today? 100 yes. They can post their information or details on Craigslist and all these other things, but you want to directly connect to contractors looking for guys like you, join Labor Central. This isn't hell, maybe. No, there's jobs pumping through the system daily. As long as you have your profile filled out correctly and have some, and you do good work, they're going to find out whether you do or you don't and you'll be out of the system. That's what we're hoping to create too. Both sides. Good paying contractors, good quality roofing subcontractors. Let's create this environment that's safe and equal really.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. Well, and when you really look at roofing sub crews, I mean just to kind of level set with everyone who's listening to this, what we're talking about, these are crews that run a solid business that are out there that are working for other contractors or for general contractors. And so in the past it's kind of been almost an underground network. Where do you find those? Where do you find these great crews? How do you know? And so tell us right now in Labor Central, how many crews do you have actually signed up?

Eric Carlisle:

Perfect. Today was almost 1500.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Wow.

Eric Carlisle:

So at 1500 crews today, we'll call it national. It's a national mapping for sure. Ranging from commercial resident, every sector you can think of. Even there's some union, Hey, we don't want to solicit to union guys. There's a lot of contractors. I need union work. E-verify these federally authorized crews. So man, we're trying to find everybody that can again, meet up and meet the needs of contractors or meet your own needs of marketing and finding work.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

So when you're really looking at these 1500 crews that are signed up, is it across the board, commercial, residential, and what kind of specialties are they offering out there?

Eric Carlisle:

Sweet. Yes. Right now it's probably a little heavier residential. I don't have the numbers today. I just want the little meeting last week. I'm going to say it's probably 80%, sorry, 60 40, 60% residential, 40% commercial.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Okay.

Eric Carlisle:

The ratio at the moment, and again, yes, specialties about tpo, E P D M, coatings, scb's, metal crews, right? I mean, [inaudible 00:07:32], whatever those slate tile concrete. Yeah.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Okay. I know you told me, we just talked about this earlier, you have 1100 crews out there who say they do metal roofing.

Eric Carlisle:

Right.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

That's huge. There's such a need for that skill training. So yeah. So let's talk a little bit from the crews standpoint. This is a great way to find work, to connect with contractors to see what's happening. And even if they want to add maybe doing different types of work now they can get connected more on commercial or residential, whatever they're doing. How does it start? How does a crew, the leader of the crew or a group get their information into Labor Central? How does that work?

Eric Carlisle:

Sure. Start at app.laborcentral.com. Just like contractors would, are you a contractor or subcontractor? There's kind of two pieces, right? If you want to work as a subcontractor looking for work from contractors, there's a big button. That's it. I want to find and connect with contractors. Now I say that kind of hardly because, well, depends on what you want to do. Once you go there, you have to create a profile. What is your profile? Where do you work? What type of work do you do? What sectors, what specialties, what certifications? And I probably can't see enough of this, Heidi. Some guys say, yeah, I'm certified for G A F or Owens Corning and all these other or I can install, but I have my own tools. Post some pictures as well too. We have a place post your own packed previous pictures. It literally takes, if I was to do it myself personally on a laptop, it'd probably take me eight minutes to create my own profile. It seems maybe a long time. I'm not horribly great on a phone. Me personally.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. Me either.

Eric Carlisle:

But if you're doing that on a phone, yeah, less than 10 minutes for sure. Honestly, to create a profile that national contractors can find you. And the reason I say national, Hey, I only work in Florida. Well guess what? A contract that has a Idaho based company has buildings in Florida that need service. How do I find local service crews in Florida? So that's my take for subcontractors. Fill out your profile completely, honestly, et cetera. As we follow up with all the crews as well too, to kind of check those profiles.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Well, and I think I'm sure with the demand that is out there right now and the backlog, so there's probably a number of crews who are thinking, ah, we don't need any more work. We're just going to work with who we have. But we know how fast things can change. And being part of a network like this offers that so many opportunities, not just in what you're doing right now, but maybe in expanding your offerings of what type of services and what kind of roofing you do.

Eric Carlisle:

That's a great point. And maybe to pound that a little bit at this point, there's a lot of subcontractors why I've got a contractor that keeps me busy all the time. Well, I know there's probably once or twice in a year that the contractor's materials didn't show up on time. And a week goes by, who pays for that week? Is that contractor paying you? Probably not. You know what I mean? Or hey, the rain, the stuff. So fitting in jobs as you can this, Hey, I could take on an extra job this week. Totally. Guess what this is Just taking a ticket from a short order chef off the little round spiny wheel thing in the kitchen. Yeah, I can do this job today. Great. For next week. How cool is that?

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

Zero cost to a subcontractor to find and connect with work today. Gosh, it's a no brainer.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

I mean, you never know. I mean, in weather, we're going into winter in the northern states, if crews are willing to travel, now of a sudden you have an immediate way to connect with people in maybe a sunnier spot.

Eric Carlisle:

Indeed. Again, yet great points of, if you don't travel today, but hey, your season ran short and you didn't make the money you need to make currently. Guess what? Can you travel one state over for to find a couple big jobs potentially? Yes. And again, yes, that's a great point that today a contractor nationally looking for, Hey, I need a guy in Louisiana. Well, I'm a Texas roofer. I'd go to Louisiana. Hey, it's a three week job. They pay for dms and do stuff. You negotiate that. Hey, travel, spend two, three weeks in Louisiana, make your money, come home in a season that maybe you wouldn't have got that project. So.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Right.

Eric Carlisle:

Just for opportunities to connect. Right.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

A lot. I mean, that's so good. What are some of the things you're hearing from the subcontracting crews and what are some of the success stories that they're telling you about being able, what's helped them to build their business or get more jobs by using the app?

Eric Carlisle:

Perfect. Great question. For some of these guys, most of the subcontractors I speak with, after getting notifications, let me sideways for half a second. When they, someone, a contractor post a job, they get an alert notification on their mobile phone saying, Hey, I have a project. I'm a contractor of X. I've got a project. It's 300 squares, TPO and state X. Awesome. They can respond to it. They get to negotiate with that contractor, start and do whatever. The biggest thing that we've seen for them. Wow, this is really cool. Cause we're connecting. It's not leads, it's not potential opportunity. This goes back to just the basic business one oh one. If you answer your phone or respond to requests in a timely manner, guess who gets a project? You know what I mean?

Regarding, hey, if you qualify for the project or can't do the work you stated to do. But yet again, with Labor Central as a subcontractor trying to find work somewhere, it comes right to their phone. They get an alert that, hey, there's a job. Why it wasn't on their job board this week. But one comes inside door, Hey, for 300 square project or a thousand whatever size this is pretty cool. That's the biggest thing is the opportunity. And I'll say even crews too.

The ear to the ground at the moment is, I wish it was even easier that there was a bigger backlog of some of these projects. Well, it's growing. We're growing too. Hey, I'd even take, it's almost like they're starting to pick and choose a little bit now, which is obvious.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. That's nice.

Eric Carlisle:

Yeah, they get addicted to it or kind of. Hey, wow, this is pretty easy. Hey Eric, I don't really travel anymore. We'll update your profile. What are the issues? Well, this says they travel. So these contractors are putting a job that says Florida, they can alert for it. They're in Georgia, but I don't want these alerts. Well, there's a button in the system to change your account to, Hey, I don't want alerts for out-of-state projects. You know what I mean? But yeah, that's probably the biggest thing is just how cool and how quick the conversation. They have a name and a number of a national contractor or a local contractor looking for projects not, I don't, hate to say begging. They don't have to post something in a kind of wait per se. This is being pushed to them.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

So those notifications, when these jobs come available are being pushed to the crews. They're able to make a decision and they really can say yay or nay or this is, I love that fact, just having your profile updated. We travel, we don't travel, we do these kind of materials. We don't do those materials and makes it so easy. So that as contractors, you don't have as much of the back and forth or you know, you have more control.

Eric Carlisle:

Indeed. Again, that pick and choose as a crew and our platform, we want this to be a, not want, it is a two-way system, a [inaudible 00:14:46] opportunity. There's contractors, and again, keep it on the positive side. Contractors, Hey, I've got a thousand square or 500 square project and A, we pay X amount and some kind crews go, well I wouldn't touch it for Z. Well, okay, right. But the good news is those projects or negotiate, Hey, hey, would you do it for X?

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

Again, an opportunity. Having an opportunity at the conversation is better than not being at the table at all. So you can't hit the ball if you don't swing the bat. That's kind of what I like to say sometimes. So for these crews, I'm sure Eric, I don't really need a profile. Okay.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

So, I say you do.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. You need it because that helps you not have to go through so much. You people know what to expect. I also think this is a great opportunity for some of these smaller companies. I know there's a lot of smaller roofing companies out there that have really been hurt by the material shortages. And so they haven't been able to, maybe they have the work, but they aren't able to get anything on because they can't get the materials because they're smaller. They don't have quite the relationships with the manufacturers. And so this gives them an opportunity to actually put their information in as a subcontractor crew and be able to do work for other people who maybe are getting materials during that time. I mean, to me it seems like you could, it helps you differentiate your business to be able to work where the work is.

Eric Carlisle:

That's really the magic and that you've unlocked a door that we don't probably advertise a reasonable amount is you can play this both ways. I don't know if that's come back and bite me and the butt somehow, but at some point, yeah, it's a daily grind that, hey contractors today, well I'm not a subcontractor. Wanna bet? Do you work for other people or would you take the opportunity if they paid you the right amount? And as a good guy, of course I would work is work at some point, whatever's paying the bills and feeding my family and keeping my crews happy.

That's how the roofing industry works. So as a contractor, you may be a licensed contractor, but I can tell you, how do I say this delicately? There's bigger contractors than you potentially looking for contractors like you to help them get their work done on time. Good budget, good quality work. So they're looking for guys like that all day long. How can we find these subcontractors, code mark, that have the certifications and all the stuff that we're looking for. We'll hire them today. We'll pay them the rate they want. We don't care. We've got so much work.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Right? Yes. It's all out there. So let's talk about individuals. So individuals who are out there who are maybe looking for, who have been doing their own thing. Maybe they've thought about starting a business, but they've been roofing, they've been doing things, they can also get on there and they can go in as their one man crew and be able to connect with contractors.

Eric Carlisle:

Indeed. I probably won't get too deep into that as we're trying to maybe develop that and go back. We have some plans for end of this year. Well, first quarter. I guess it really is to maybe look at those individuals. So if they were looking to kind of either, well that's two things. One, if they were looking to just, they had their own roofing company and they want to manage it and run crews, you could use Labor Central for that. Find crews and they help them do the work. If they're like the sales manager owner, but they don't have a crew. All right.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Right.

Eric Carlisle:

Or if they're trying to maybe onboard with a contract local contractor. I've got 10 years experience, I'm a shingler. I can do flat roof stuff. All right. How do we hook them up with contractors to become a W2 employee or a subcontracted single person. We're physically working on the basic way to better profile those. So it's more of a recruiting platform at that time. Right. Which is important for the partners to do that. Yeah.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Stay tuned. Everybody out there. Stay tuned.

Eric Carlisle:

Yeah. Yeah.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

I mean that's a great way that networking, that connection. That's so important. Okay. Let's talk a little bit about also, and you kind of touched on this earlier, but I think it's so important, is the importance of crews when they're building their profile of really talking about their safety record, their certifications, what they have, tools, maybe even a little bit of culture so that they have a good fit with the contractors who are looking for those crews.

Eric Carlisle:

Perfect. Yep. Indeed. I'll pick on crews for just a second a little bit that without a complete profile, the contractors may skip over. Well maybe you're not my guy because you didn't want to either take the time or again, that's usually the case. Hey, I just all create basic profile. Leave it up there. The more detailed it is, the more likely you're going to get projects. Cause again, these guys are looking for, do you have insurance? And here's the top five questions. Do you have insurance? Do you have any Safety certification? Do you have tools? Are you willing to work as a subcontractor? And do you put [inaudible 00:19:41] as you travel?

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

The reverse of that usually happens. Here's why I pick on. The only thing that most crews ask for, what do you pay? Hey guys, this is a business. Contractors are going to work with you.

Hey, if it's x a square and he's got it all mapped out and he's a awesome contractor, well sometimes those lower rates are because he knows what he's doing as well too. And there's a labor rate that fits. On the other side, if you're a crew that goes, well for me in my business, it doesn't fit for X dollars a square. Okay, thanks I passed. But guess what was just made? An opportunity to meet a contact that maybe not this project, but next project, guess what? I will be able to take that project or the budget will be correct. Right.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

So those are the- Oh, so go ahead.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

No, go ahead. I was just going to say, I think that's so important because this is the crews. It's about selling yourself too, right? To the contractors who are looking for crews.

Eric Carlisle:

And just like social media, everybody has their little profile out there. This is the same thing again, it's not if it's when this becomes the industry adopt platform, right? It's not if, it's when this. This is going to be the labor marketplace world or any trade. At some point as we're driving, then it's going to be that without a profile, without some information about some certifications and stuff, well guess what? It's going to be harder and harder to find work because why? These larger contractors that are looking for the work, they're looking for that easy button too.

How does it save them time? Because it saves them money, saves some headaches and potentially they don't have to pay as many people to go find crews, right? Recruiting. I was kind of alerted to something I didn't know. There's many these national contractors and mid-level contractors. I mean, they've got people, this is all, they focus on HR for their company and then it comes that bring them on as W2 employees. That's one thing. But how do we find subs that still meet our standards, that still have safety qualifications that can still install the work based on how we do it. Training and right?

The world of roofing is sophisticated and it's getting significantly more, if that makes sense. And as we know with N R C A and some of these other pro certification things that are coming down [inaudible 00:21:54], what happens when they start, not if, when roofing industry mandates that crews or people on jobs must have NRCA certifications or X certification in order to even work, guess what? I would say, get with it today. Get some profiles, start getting the training. That's a whole nother level or a whole nother conversation. But it's sophisticated. The roofing industry's one area that's got a lot of room to work and they're doing a great job doing it. The whole industry behind it is changing. And that's what we love. All right, let's legitimize the labor trade for roofing.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah, I think, and to that point, your technology and what you're doing with Labor Central is really going to bring up the whole industry.

Eric Carlisle:

Right.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Because now it's all there. Do you have your OSHA certification? Do you have your manufacturer's certification? Are you pro certified? Those are the kind of things that will become the norm as people are looking for them. And it rises the whole industry up where before. And I think I really see this making a huge difference for, and I'm going to say this for hopefully I won't get in trouble for equity for the sub crews because it brings it out of the dark, out of the underground and really brings it into the light. And as technology has been doing across the board, just like you said, Uber, eagle view, you know, you name it, it really brings everything up a whole new level.

Eric Carlisle:

Indeed. I think it's, you're hitting on all the buttons too, that even from as contractors are getting more sophisticated, insurance levels change opportunities change or the industry and the level of sophistication, we want to know what kind of guys we're hiring as well too. Well why not be those guys that they want to hire?

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Right.

Eric Carlisle:

It's continued education. I mean it's a trade, but hey guys, I know a lot of roofers make a lot more money than I do because they're a roofing contractor or roofing subcontractors and stuff. Not because it's all about money, but business is ran right and the right certifications and the right pro. You know what I mean? Just right place, right time, doing great work. That's what lands you job number two, number four, number 10. So in a platform like this, this is what kind of helps propel those companies that struggle with a little bit of marketing or the connections. It's a marketing guide. What is marketing? It's fancy words and some of the stuff, but it's connections. Yeah, it really, it's who you know, so once you start knowing more people, guess what? Doors open.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Doors open. And I'm going to say good marketing is being on these kind of apps, being on this. Just like with Roofer's Coffee Shop, having a directory, getting known, being part of that. It's the same thing being on this app that is a huge part of your marketing plan both ways. Because honestly, when you think about the roofing contractors who are coming in there looking for crews, well those crews are going to be talking. And so you want to have that respect going both directions. And you want the best companies to rise to the top, which is what's going to happen with the technology.

Eric Carlisle:

For sure. Just like Uber and stuff. Hey, that's a double rating system that the driver rates you.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Right.

Eric Carlisle:

Yeah, I know mine's 4.98, which is pretty awesome. I tip well and I try to be polite as I should as I travel.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

As we all should.

Eric Carlisle:

Yeah, indeed. And be kind. And then the same thing that the crew gets rated as well too. So the world that we're living in is we're building the global portfolio. Where that goes, I'm not totally sure I'm not, I'm not sure about all the big brother stuff above me, but hey, today in roofing, trying to connect and make sure that the profiles and people are there to do the works.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah. Yeah. I think the transparency can only continue to grow the professionalism and respective roofing. So Eric, thank you. This is just so exciting and you are really bringing a solution for a huge problem with skilled labor. Thank you. And your team. I know you've got a lot of people who are a part of Labor Central who are doing some great things. So thanks to all of you for everything you're doing to help solve this problem.

Eric Carlisle:

Perfect. Yep. Thank you for the opportunity and thank for spouting and shouting us out as we know we want to do, make the industry better for both crews and contractors. And like you said, all high tides, raise all ships. So yes, that is, that's great news.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

That is really good. Thank you. Thank you. And you can find all this information about Labor Central on Roofer's Coffee Shop in their full directory, has all the information. Watch for some really cool stuff coming up. In fact, Eric, we should mention that, that you're going to have a chance to go in and try it out, right?

Eric Carlisle:

Absolutely.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

That's coming over the next couple weeks?

Eric Carlisle:

Indeed. Yep, totally. Actually at the end of this week, free trial, five free searches. Come in, find crews near area, see if it works for you. Just keep it simple.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

Yeah.

Eric Carlisle:

No credit card, no account set up. Just come in and test it. Try it, see what you think and give us feedback.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

And I am going to say, cause I say this all the time about our classified ads on Roofers Coffee Shop, you got to keep coming back because this is one of those things that will go viral. That is going viral. I mean, I remember when we talked about a year ago, maybe not even that long, and you were at 400 crews, now you're at 1500 crews and across the board. So as a contractor you got to keep coming back because this just keeps, grows daily. So make sure you're doing that and check out for this free trial or these five free, because that'll really tell you where it's at right now for your area. So one last time. Thank you Eric.

Eric Carlisle:

Welcome. Thank you as well too. Thank you. Roofer's Coffee Shop.

Heidi J. Ellsworth:

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