Framing & carpentry job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 22 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the field. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 4
Chief Executive Officer
A framing and carpentry chief executive officer decides which builders and building types the company frames for, how fast it adds crews, and whether it builds wall panels or buys them.
Chief Operating Officer
A framing and carpentry chief operating officer sets the steps every crew follows on crane days, job site power and morning briefings, on many builders' lots at once.
Chief Financial Officer
A framing and carpentry chief financial officer decides how much lumber price risk the company carries, keeps uninsured crews off its workers' comp bill, and forecasts cash around each builder's check runs.
General Manager
A framing and carpentry general manager oversees the framing and trim crews day to day and walks job sites with leads and builders' superintendents.
Managers 9
Field Supervisor
A framing field supervisor drives between lots all day, checking that each crew's walls, floors and roofs match the plans and your standard.
HR Manager
A framing and carpentry HR manager hires framers, helpers and trim carpenters, and writes down which jobs a helper under 18 may do on a lot.
Marketing Manager
A framing and carpentry marketing manager makes sure the builders, general contractors and remodelers who choose framers know the company.
Office Manager
A framing and carpentry office manager sends monthly pay applications and lien waivers to general contractors, keeps insurance papers current in every builder's vendor file, and logs each plan revision so crews frame from the right set.
Operations Manager
A framing and carpentry operations manager assigns framing and trim crews to builders' lots each morning, lined up behind lumber drops, truss deliveries and the crane days project managers book.
Production Manager
A framing production manager sets the standard every framing and trim crew works to: how houses get checked, who inspects each site for safety, and what must be fixed before a builder's walk.
Project Manager
A framing project manager takes each house or building from a plan set to a frame that passes inspection.
Sales Manager
A framing and carpentry sales manager runs the reps and estimators who win builders, general contractors and remodelers.
Warehouse Manager
A framing and carpentry warehouse manager keeps crews supplied from the shop and yard: fasteners and hardware, nail guns and saws, crew trailers, and the trim and door packages waiting for each house.
Office and sales 6
Customer Service Representative
A framing customer service representative logs plan sets and bid dates from builders and general contractors, and books estimate visits for homeowners who want an addition, a wall taken out or a sagging floor fixed.
Dispatcher
A framing and carpentry dispatcher sends each crew its lot, plan, elevation and options every morning.
Bookkeeper
A framing and carpentry bookkeeper codes each lumber package and fill-in order to the lot it went to, and tracks what every subcontracted crew has drawn against its price for a house.
Inventory Specialist
A framing and carpentry inventory specialist keeps the nails, hangers, hold-downs, adhesives and blades that crews pull every day counted and on the shelf.
Sales Representative
A framing and carpentry sales representative calls on home builders, general contractors and remodelers, walks their sites and reads their plans, and works with the estimator to turn them into framing and trim prices.
Rehash Specialist
A framing and carpentry rehash specialist returns to builders and general contractors that chose another framer or never awarded a bid, and to remodelers whose addition quotes stalled.
In the field 3
Carpenter / Tradesperson
A framing carpenter builds the floors, walls and roofs of new homes, additions and apartment buildings for a contractor that frames for home builders.
Laborer / Helper
A framing laborer carries, cuts and stages lumber for a framing crew, so the carpenters can keep building walls, floors and roofs.
Lead Carpenter
A lead framing carpenter runs one framing crew on a builder's houses or apartment buildings and frames alongside it.
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