Carpenter Foreman

About the Role

The Carpenter Foreman supervises and coordinates carpenter workers to ensure that work is performed safely, correctly, and on schedule. This role involves creating sketches of work details, planning jobs, respecting timelines, and securing necessary resources. The foreman must be proficient in advanced layout techniques, use of form systems, anchor bolt placement, material takeoffs from drawings, and understand building safety requirements. The position may be located in a plant operations environment or on a construction jobsite. Key responsibilities include inspecting work quality to meet standards and specifications, assisting workers and resolving problems, and enforcing company policies and safety regulations. The foreman reads and interprets blueprints and sketches, prepares reports, and performs a variety of carpentry tasks such as building and setting forms, using level instruments, tying rebar, constructing scaffolds, finishing carpentry, setting screeds, installing batter boards, and operating hand and power tools. Coordination with other craft workers is also required. • Inspect work quality to ensure standards and specifications are met • Assist workers and resolve problems • Enforce company policies and safety regulations • Read and interpret blueprints/sketches and prepare reports • Perform carpentry tasks: build/set forms, use level instruments, tie rebar, construct scaffolds, finish carpentry, set screeds, install batter boards, operate hand and power tools • Assist other craft workers as needed • Climb and work safely on scaffolds, ladders, and uneven or adverse surfaces

Key Responsibilities

• ▸quality inspection
• ▸blueprint reading
• ▸form building
• ▸scaffold construction
• ▸safety enforcement
• ▸team coordination

What You Bring

The role requires the ability to push, pull, lift, or carry up to 50 lb regularly and up to 100 lb occasionally, with frequent use of hands, arms, and legs. Workers must maintain hand‑eye coordination, climb and balance on steel or wood frameworks, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds, and navigate uneven, muddy, or loose surfaces, including confined spaces. Exposure to adverse weather conditions and prolonged bending, twisting, crawling, kneeling, reaching overhead, squatting, or standing and lifting is expected. Effective communication with management, supervisors, and field workers is essential, as is reading and writing comprehension for giving and receiving directions and safety policies. The foreman must be able to perform mathematical calculations, make decisions, concentrate amid distractions, and maintain attention to detail. Strong leadership, motivational abilities, and decision‑making skills are required. • Lift up to 50 lb (occasionally 100 lb) and perform repetitive hand/arm tasks • Communicate effectively with management and crew, read/write and perform calculations • Demonstrate leadership, decision‑making, and attention to detail

Requirements

• ▸lift 50lb
• ▸leadership
• ▸communication
• ▸decision‑making
• ▸math
• ▸attention to detail

Work Environment

Onsite