Lead Carpenter and Field Project Manager

Seawards Home Improvement is hiring a Lead Carpenter / Field Project Manager to lead daily field execution while maintaining company standards for safety, quality, production, documentation, customer service, and project control. This is a hands-on leadership position, not an office-only project-management role.

Responsibilities:

• Lead project startup, preconstruction walkthroughs, and daily field planning.
• Teach plan reading and audit layout, measurements, and quality-control checkpoints.
• Own material takeoffs, material lists, and approved order coordination.
• Prepare labor-hour estimates and track production against the approved daily plan.
• Draft and coordinate weekly schedules for owner approval.
• Coordinate approved deliveries, inspections, and subcontractor activities.
• Lead customer progress meetings and walkthroughs using approved project information.
• Own daily documentation, progress photos, labor tracking, material usage, and assigned project-system updates.
• Lead jobsite safety, hazard reviews, toolbox talks, PPE verification, and near-miss documentation.
• Verify jobsite protection, cleanup, security, and inspection readiness.
• Review project-level budgets and track approved labor, production, and material performance.
• Document RFIs, client selections, unresolved questions, changed conditions, and proposed change orders.
• Escalate scope, price, scheduling, warranty, and customer-commitment decisions to the owner.
• Lead punch-list completion, customer walkthroughs, and project closeout.
• Train, coach, and evaluate Carpenters and Helpers.
• Investigate and document callbacks, defects, safety concerns, and warranty issues.

Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on remodeling or general-construction experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading field crews and coordinating multiple trades.
• Ability to read plans, perform takeoffs, measure projects, build material lists, and estimate labor hours.
• Strong knowledge of residential and/or light-commercial construction sequencing.
• Proven quality-control, documentation, scheduling, and problem-solving habits.
• Professional customer communication and conflict-management skills.
• Ability to use mobile tools for photos, schedules, reports, and documentation.
• Reliable transportation and a valid driver's license when driving is required.
• Ability to perform the physical duties of this hands-on role, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Authority limits:

This position prepares, coordinates, documents, and recommends. Owner approval remains required for spending, substitutions, unplanned purchases, start dates, employee assignments, material schedule changes, change-order scope and price, discounts, free work, warranty decisions, and binding customer commitments.

Success means the crew starts with a clear work plan; work progresses safely with fewer surprises and callbacks; labor, materials, quality, photos, RFIs, and decisions are documented; customers receive clear updates without unauthorized promises; and employees receive consistent coaching.

Seawards Home Improvement is a minority-owned general contracting and remodeling company serving the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. We provide equal employment opportunities without regard to any status protected by applicable law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals.

Job Types: Part-time, Full-time

Pay: $29.00 - $35.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

• How many years have you led construction or remodeling crews?
• What is the largest crew and project scope you have directly managed in the field?
• Can you read plans, perform takeoffs, build material lists, and estimate labor hours?
• Describe your process for creating a daily work plan and tracking production.
• Describe a project issue you identified early and how you prevented cost, delay, or rework.
• Do you have reliable transportation to project sites throughout the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia?
• Do you own and can you bring a professional general carpentry and layout tool set suitable for leading daily field production? List the tools you personally own. Company-designated specialty equipment, large power tools, and required safety equipment are handled separately.
• Are you willing to complete a brief phone interview and provide work references?

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $29 - $35