
Cajun Industries, Llc
Full-service construction company offering industrial, commercial, and civil services.
Carpenter Foreman
Supervises carpentry crew, ensures safe, accurate, timely work, and oversees planning.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The Carpenter Foreman supervises and coordinates carpenter workers to ensure work is performed safely, correctly, and on schedule. The role includes planning jobs, managing timelines, obtaining necessary resources, and creating sketches of work details. The foreman must understand advanced layout, use of forms, anchor bolt layout, material takeoffs, and safety requirements for building work, and operate related tools and equipment in plant operations or construction sites. • Inspect the quality of all work to ensure standards and specifications are met • Assist workers in their duties and resolve problems • Interpret and enforce company policies and safety regulations • Read and interpret blueprints/sketches, and complete reports • Build and set forms, use level instrument, tie rebar, build scaffold, finish carpentry work, read tape/ruler, set screeds, install batter boards, and operate various hand and power tools • Assist other craft workers as needed
Key Responsibilities
- ▸quality inspection
- ▸safety enforcement
- ▸blueprint reading
- ▸form setting
- ▸rebar tying
- ▸material takeoffs
What You Bring
The position requires the ability to push, pull, lift, or carry up to 50 lbs regularly and up to 100 lbs occasionally, with frequent repetitive hand, arm, and leg use. Candidates must have good hand‑eye coordination, be capable of climbing and maintaining balance on steel or wood frameworks, ladders, and scaffolds, and handle various hand and power tools. Work may involve prolonged bending, twisting, crawling, kneeling, overhead reaching, and exposure to uneven, muddy, or loose surfaces, as well as adverse weather and confined spaces. Strong communication skills are essential for interacting with management, supervisors, and field workers, and reading and writing comprehension is needed for directions and safety policies. The foreman must be proficient in math calculations, detail‑oriented, and able to make decisions while concentrating amid distractions. Leadership and motivational abilities are also required.
Requirements
- ▸heavy lifting
- ▸coordination
- ▸tool use
- ▸communication
- ▸leadership
- ▸math
Work Environment
Onsite