Cajun Industries, Llc
Full-service construction company offering industrial, commercial, and civil services.
Carpenter Foreman
Supervise carpenters, ensuring quality, safety, and timely project completion.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The Carpenter Foreman supervises and coordinates carpenter workers to ensure that work is performed safely, correctly, and on schedule. This role includes creating sketches for the work details, planning jobs, respecting timelines, and obtaining necessary resources, while possessing knowledge of advanced layout, form usage, anchor bolt layout, material takeoff, and safety requirements for building work. In addition to oversight, the foreman inspects the quality of work, assists workers in their duties, resolves problems, and enforces company policies and safety regulations. They read and interpret blueprints and sketches, produce reports, and perform hands‑on tasks such as building forms, tying rebar, constructing scaffolds, completing finish carpentry, setting screeds, installing batter boards, and operating various hand and power tools, while also supporting other craft workers as needed. • Inspect work quality to ensure standards and specifications are met • Assist workers and resolve problems • Interpret and enforce company policies and safety regulations • Read and interpret blueprints/sketches and complete reports • Build and set forms, tie rebar, construct scaffolds, finish carpentry, set screeds, install batter boards, and operate hand and power tools • Assist other craft workers as needed
Key Responsibilities
- ▸quality inspection
- ▸blueprint review
- ▸form building
- ▸scaffold construction
- ▸safety enforcement
- ▸crew supervision
What You Bring
Physical requirements include the ability to push, pull, lift or carry up to 50 lb (occasionally up to 100 lb), perform repetitive hand/arm motions, maintain hand‑eye coordination, and communicate effectively. The foreman must be capable of sedentary to heavy work, operate electric, gas, and pneumatic tools, climb and balance on steel or wood structures, and work on uneven, muddy, or loose surfaces, as well as in confined spaces and adverse weather conditions. Mentally, the foreman must communicate clearly with management, supervisors, and field workers, possess strong reading and writing comprehension for directions and safety policies, and be able to perform mathematical calculations. They need decision‑making skills, attention to detail, the ability to concentrate amid distractions, and strong leadership and motivational abilities.
Requirements
- ▸lifting 50lb
- ▸tool operation
- ▸leadership
- ▸communication
- ▸calculations
- ▸decision‑making
Work Environment
Onsite