Your craft deserves respect. Your effort should matter. Your work should be something you can stand behind.
We build residential interiors, exterior improvements, ADUs, and garage conversions throughout Sonoma, Marin, Napa, and surrounding communities.
We’re building a crew where people work hard, think ahead, enjoy their trade, and hold themselves accountable. Experience is valued, younger workers can become leaders, and everyone has something to learn.
If you want to help build that kind of crew, we want to hear from you.
EMPLOYMENT BASED ON PROJECT DEMAND
Work is scheduled according to project demand. Available hours, assignment duration, and scheduling depend on active projects and workload.
EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. All new hires must complete the required Form I-9 employment eligibility verification process.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
Clear expectations. Direct communication. Respect for your skills and effort.
We take crew morale seriously. Leadership has a responsibility to recognize good work, address problems fairly, and create an environment where people can do their best.
We’ll listen to your ideas, give honest feedback, and take responsibility for our part in helping you succeed. We want people to develop their skills, take on responsibility, and grow into leadership.
The standards below apply to everyone, including the owner.
90-DAY PROBATIONARY PERIOD
All new hires begin with a paid, 90-calendar-day probationary period.
During this period, we evaluate safety, attitude, craftsmanship, punctuality, productivity, organization, communication, and your ability to follow direction and perform the skills you represent.
You can expect clear direction and honest feedback. We expect consistent effort, accountability, and demonstrated ability.
This gives both of us time to determine whether the working relationship is a good fit.
OUR VALUES
1. Safety
Look out for yourself and everyone around you. Plan the work, use the right equipment, and address hazards before moving forward. Speak up when something is unsafe.
2. Attitude
Show up ready, willing, and teachable. Leave egos, outside drama, and personal conflicts at the gate. Take direction professionally, accept feedback, and bring an attitude that helps the crew succeed.
3. Craftsmanship
Care about the details, including the ones nobody will see. Understand what right looks like, check your work, and honor your craft through the quality you leave behind.
4. Perseverance
Stay steady when the work gets difficult. Think through challenges, ask for help when needed, and follow through until the job is done correctly.
5. Diligence
Prepare well. Pay attention. Finish what you start. Check measurements, protect the property, and care for equipment. Put tools and materials back where they belong so the next person can find them.
6. Enjoyment and Morale
Find satisfaction in the work and help make this a crew people want to be part of. Recognize effort, encourage one another, and bring good humor. Address frustrations directly and respectfully. Everyone contributes to morale, and leaders have a responsibility to protect it.
7. Integrity
Tell the truth. Honor your word. Be honest about what you know and where you need help. Own mistakes and do what’s right, even when no one is watching.
8. Accountability
Take responsibility for your work, your decisions, and your commitments. Raise problems early, help resolve them, and put what you learn into practice.
9. Teamwork and Leadership
We give younger workers real opportunities to lead. You may take direction from someone younger than you, and we expect you to give that person the same professional respect you would give an experienced leader. Share your knowledge and support their development. Every leader is responsible for listening, giving clear direction, and treating the crew fairly. Everyone is expected to speak up about safety or mistakes.
10. Continuous Improvement
Keep learning, regardless of your experience. Respect proven methods, welcome useful ideas, and look for smarter ways to build safely and efficiently. Be willing to teach and willing to learn.
SKILL EXPECTATIONS: JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER
We expect you to understand an assigned scope, plan your approach, and produce accurate work without constant supervision. Know your abilities, communicate your limitations, and ask for clarification before proceeding when plans or conditions are unclear.
1. Jobsite Safety
Recognize hazards and use tools, ladders, scaffolding, protective equipment, and dust controls correctly. Understand when work needs to stop so a hazard can be addressed.
2. Blueprint Reading
Read architectural and structural drawings, dimensions, sections, schedules, and construction details. Identify conflicts or missing information before they become mistakes in the field.
3. Construction Math and Layout
Work confidently with fractions, angles, elevations, slopes, and material quantities. Establish square, level, plumb, and consistent reference lines using tapes, squares, levels, and lasers.
4. Foundations and Concrete Formwork
Lay out and build forms for assigned residential work. Understand elevations, dimensions, bracing, and the placement of anchors and embedded hardware according to the plans.
5. Floor, Wall, and Roof Framing
Lay out and construct framing, openings, headers, blocking, and backing. Install conventional and engineered components according to approved details and manufacturer instructions.
6. Sheathing and Structural Connections
Install subflooring, wall sheathing, roof sheathing, hangers, straps, anchors, and other specified connectors. Read and follow fastening schedules.
7. Windows and Exterior Doors
Check rough openings and install units square, level, and plumb. Follow the specified flashing, sealing, and weatherproofing sequence.
8. Building Envelope and Exterior Finish
Install weather barriers, flashing, rainscreen components, siding, fascia, soffits, and exterior trim. Understand how the specified assembly drains water and protects the structure.
9. Interior Finish Carpentry
Install doors, jambs, casing, baseboard, crown molding, and other trim. Make accurate miters, copes, scribes, and adjustments for existing conditions.
10. Cabinets and Casework
Lay out, level, secure, and align cabinets and built-ins. Fit fillers, scribes, trim, doors, drawers, and hardware with consistent reveals.
11. Decks, Stairs, and Fences
Lay out and build assigned components according to project requirements. Understand framing connections, stair geometry, decking installation, and railing details.
12. Remodeling and Selective Demolition
Protect occupied areas and finished surfaces. Identify existing conditions, recognize potential structural or utility conflicts, and obtain direction before making changes.
13. Tools and Equipment
Have journeyman-level hand tools and basic power tools, including an impact driver, drill, jigsaw, reciprocating saw, and grinder. Safely operate common carpentry saws, nailers, routers, and layout equipment.
14. Material Planning and Work Sequence
Prepare useful cut lists and material quantities. Organize your work, reduce avoidable waste, and coordinate with the next task or trade.
15. Independent Execution and Quality Control
Complete assigned work efficiently, check your own results, and correct deficiencies. Give clear instructions to helpers and communicate progress, obstacles, and material needs.
If you hold a journeyman certification or apprenticeship completion credential, identify the issuing program and provide documentation. Be prepared to explain how you approach the work and demonstrate the skills you claim.
WE EXPECT PROFESSIONALISM. WE UNDERSTAND LIFE HAPPENS.
Keeping outside problems from disrupting the jobsite is part of respecting the crew. So is speaking honestly when something needs your attention.
Family responsibilities, personal challenges, and unexpected situations happen. If you need a day or some time to handle something, talk to us as early as you can so we can work through it together.
We’re a small team. We work directly with one another, and we believe that should come with understanding, flexibility, and personal respect.
BEFORE YOU APPLY
If you’re not a bags-on-at-start-time kind of person, don’t apply.
If you’re not a put-it-back-where-you-got-it kind of person, don’t apply.
Being ready to work, respecting equipment, and keeping the jobsite organized are basic expectations here.
Read our values and skill expectations and decide whether you’re prepared to meet them. We’ll hold ourselves to our commitments, too.
Let’s not waste each other’s time.
READY TO BUILD WITH US?
Bring your skill, your work ethic, and a willingness to keep growing.
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