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Recruiters for home services & restoration

We recruit GMs, operations leaders, COOs, and CEOs for multi-location home services and restoration companies. The right ones grow the business and keep the culture that built it.

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The challenge

The industry is scaling fast. Your leadership team has to keep up.

Home services is in the middle of the largest consolidation wave it has ever seen, PE firms rolling up HVAC, plumbing, pest control, roofing, and restoration at a pace that was unthinkable ten years ago. Every acquisition creates the same need: leadership. We're a retained firm that recruits inside this space; we understand the operational reality generalist recruiters don't.

  • GMs and operations leaders who have run multi-location P&Ls in the field
  • Executives who scale PE-backed platforms without breaking the founder's culture
  • Successors who honor what a founder built while building what comes next

Roles we place

The seats that scale the company

CEOChief ExecutiveOften the first enterprise-level hire after an acquisition, or the leader a founder installs to step back without selling.
COOChief Operating OfficerTurns vision into operational reality across regions, critical in PE-backed rollups where integration speed matters.
CFOChief Financial OfficerUnderstands restoration revenue recognition, insurance receivables, franchise royalties, and seasonal cash flow.
GMGeneral ManagerThe most in-demand role in home services, runs a location or market independently with full P&L ownership.
DirDirector of OperationsBuilds the playbooks and consistency that let a company grow without quality dropping off a cliff.Director of Operations searches
RMRegional ManagerThe connective tissue between HQ and the field; carries the culture into markets the founder can't reach daily.
VPVP of OperationsOwns the entire service-delivery organization, technician performance, customer satisfaction, fleet utilization.
FrFranchise Operations ExecutiveEnforces consistency without killing the entrepreneurial energy that drives franchise growth.
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The PE opportunity

The private-equity rollup opportunity

The industry is being reshaped by private equity, and the pace is accelerating. Every acquisition creates an immediate leadership need, and every month without the right leader is a month of eroded value against the investment thesis.

We work with PE operating and talent partners who need to move fast without sacrificing quality, 90-day leadership installation timelines, confidential searches, and multiple searches running in parallel across portfolio companies.

Restoration

Restoration recruiters

A storm can change a restoration company's workload overnight. And one job can run from emergency mitigation through months of rebuild, with insurance carriers and TPA programs setting a lot of the terms.

We recruit restoration GMs and operations managers, and the executives above them. They need to run crews through a surge and keep carriers paying on time.

Servpro of Birmingham has trusted us with multiple placements.

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Founder succession

The founder succession opportunity

On the other side of the table, thousands of home-services founders are approaching retirement with no clear successor. They built the company from a truck and a phone and now run $20M to $100M operations with benches that grew up around them but may not be ready.

This is the silver tsunami in home services. It creates a specific need: a leader who can honor what the founder built while building what comes next. Get it right and the company thrives for another generation; get it wrong and the culture unravels in months.

EOS / Traction

The EOS / Traction connection

Many home-services companies run on EOS. If yours speaks the language of Visionary, Integrator, Rocks, and L10s, you already know that finding a true Integrator, the person who complements the Visionary and runs the day-to-day with discipline, is one of the hardest hires in the EOS world.

We've placed Integrators and operations leaders in EOS-driven companies. We understand how the Visionary/Integrator dynamic works, where it breaks down, and what to look for in someone who can earn the trust of a team that already has a rhythm.

How it works

A search built to stick

Most placements fail in the first 90 days. Our process is designed to prevent that.

STEP 01

The Bullseye Meeting

Every stakeholder in the room, role, comp, success criteria, cultural profile, and decision authority defined before we go to market.

STEP 02

Mapped search

We approach proven leaders directly, including the ones who aren't looking.

STEP 03

Mutual-fit assessment

Capability, character, and cultural fit vetted in person, on both sides of the table.

STEP 04

Onboard & follow through

We stay involved through the first 90 days to make the placement land.

FireSeeds has assisted us with several candidates at this juncture. They are thorough, vet candidates well, and perform their own testing to do a deeper dive than a resume or someone's best interview will tell you. They also understand who we are as a company and work to find candidates who align with our core values.
Servpro of Birmingham
Multiple placements

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Tell us about the seat you need to fill. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team to fill it.

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