We help small and mid-sized construction firms design hiring systems and workforce plans that actually work — and stop losing the people that build the business.
Most construction companies don't have a hiring problem.
They have a system problem — and it's quietly costing them the workers, the projects, and the margin they thought were just bad luck.
Sapientia Consulting is a strategic workforce advisory based in Vancouver, BC. We work with small and mid-sized construction companies — typically 11 to 75 employees — that have outgrown informal hiring but cannot yet justify an internal HR function.
The pattern is consistent. Owners are hiring reactively. Skilled workers leave faster than they can be replaced. Job postings get few qualified responses. New hires don't last 90 days. The cost is invisible until it isn't.
We diagnose the system, design the fix, and walk alongside the team that has to run it. Our work is project-based, productized, and built to be handed off — not held hostage.
Three engagement structures. One purpose: to help you hire better, retain longer, and stop scrambling for people every spring.
A two-week diagnostic engagement. Free for our first cohort of founding clients. Reveals the gaps in your hiring infrastructure and quantifies the dollar cost of what's broken.
Build the hiring engine. Sourcing, screening, offers, onboarding. Productized scope, fixed price, complete handoff.
Move from reactive hiring to forward planning. Critical roles protected. Forecasts tied to your project pipeline.
Lumenate your hiring. The diagnostic instrument that reveals what your hiring process is actually doing.
Lumen is purpose-built for small and mid-sized construction companies. In ten focused minutes, it surfaces the gaps in your hiring infrastructure and shows you, in real dollar terms, what those gaps are costing your business right now.
It is the front door to every Sapientia engagement. Run it free. See what we see. Decide from there whether you want help making it different.
We work in phases. Each phase has a clear purpose, a defined deliverable, and a moment where you can decide whether to continue.
Five years of agency recruiting and branch-level leadership across BC. Built Sapientia to do the workforce strategy work that small construction companies need but can rarely afford or find.
I spent five years inside the staffing industry — first as a recruiter, then running multi-branch operations as a General Manager. I watched hundreds of construction companies in BC try to hire their way out of structural workforce problems they didn't yet realize they had. The same patterns. Reactive postings. Inconsistent screens. No onboarding. People walking out within 90 days. Owners blaming "the labour market" for a system problem they could fix.
Sapientia is the firm I wished those companies could call. Strategic workforce advisory, designed specifically for construction operators. Productized so the work can actually get bought. Diagnostic-led so the recommendations are grounded in what your business is actually doing — not what a consultant assumes.
I stay current on AI tools reshaping how hiring and workforce strategy is done — and bring that directly into every Sapientia engagement. The combination of operational depth and modern tooling is rare in BC consulting, and built specifically for the companies most underserved by the current market.
Run Lumen — it's free, takes ten minutes, and produces a real diagnosis. Or if you'd rather start with a conversation, drop us a note. Either path leads to the same place: clarity about what's happening and what to do next.