We're hiring Apprentice Carpenters who are familiar with using basic tools and tool safety (including table saws and chop saws). As a member of our team, you will also be expected to present and conduct yourself at all times as a professional. We offer competitive compensation and excellent benefits, including health insurance, retirement, and paid time off.

As an Apprentice Carpenter at Juniper, your job is to assist your supervisor in the daily operations of your job site. As a member of our team, you are also expected to present and conduct yourself at all times as a professional, with a high degree of personal responsibility and integrity, and a commitment to safety. At Juniper, we value our apprentices and aim to provide meaningful training and development opportunities.

Skills needed

• Able to act and appear professionally at all times, maintain an orderly job site, handle equipment with care, display a self-starting mentality and a positive attitude, and take responsibility for yourself and your actions.
• Able to carefully follow verbal and written instructions from your supervisor about jobsite tasks and safety standards, keep pace with the prevailing flow of work on a jobsite, and remain cheerfully open to suggestions and training on the job to improve performance.
• Be oriented towards improving processes by seeking better and faster ways to complete work, eliminate waste, save time, and improve efficiency, as well as take responsibility for identifying problems and making quick, effective decisions to resolve them.
• Able to work closely with a team, and to treat your coworkers, our clients, and the public with respect.
• Competence safely using required tools (listed below), including table saws and chop saws.
• Able to lift and carry at least 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Collect and deliver materials
• Daily site setup, clean up, and breakdown
• Perform manual labor at the direction of your supervisor, including heavy lifting, fitting into tight spaces, elevated work, digging, and repetitive cutting tasks
• Assist the rest of the crew as needed
• Submit timecards to your supervisor no later than 7:30am each Monday for the prior week

Required Tools

• Tool belt containing a hammer, 25 ft (min) tape, speed square, pencil, utility knife, 6-in-1 screwdriver, nail sets, notebook, 10 pc drill bit set, chalk line, torpedo level, cat's paw, large and small pry bars, bullnose nail puller, cordless impact driver and cordless drill, 4-foot level.
• Optional tools: Block plane, compass/scribe, circular saw, reciprocating saw, jig saw, 2-foot and 6-foot levels.
• Appropriate work clothes and protective footwear
• Basic personal protective equipment will be provided by Juniper (including work gloves, ear protection, safety glasses, etc.)

What we ask

You should be a good communicator, comfortable working collaboratively and committed to treating everyone in the company and our customers with respect. And no matter your role, you're expected to be organized, detail-oriented, and proactively solve problems. Our office is based in Peaks Island, Maine, a 15-minute ferry ride from downtown Portland, and you must be able to travel to job sites in the greater Portland area.

What we offer

The compensation range for this position is based on experience and qualifications. All employees receive paid vacations, holidays, health insurance, a retirement contribution, a tool allowance, and professional education. And we all appreciate having a healthy work/life balance.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer

We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. People of color, trans and gender-nonconforming people, people from poor and working-class backgrounds, people in the LGBTQ+ community, and women are encouraged to apply.

About us

We are an award-winning residential design/build company working in Portland, Maine and its surrounding communities. We create beautiful, energy-efficient, sustainably-built custom homes and renovations.

We do things differently. For starters, we're majority women-owned and managed. Also, as much as we admire people with mad skills, we don't hire for skills alone. We have a diverse, respectful and positive work culture—and a fantastic team—and we're looking for people who really understand the value of that and want to be part of it. In addition, we're invested in helping to move the building industry to more environmentally sustainable practices. We focus on high performance building and carbon reduction.

We're all in on building science, and strive to use optimal techniques and materials. We're always learning. You will be too.

GET IN TOUCH

Please apply via BreezyHR with an introduction describing your relevant work experience, why you would be a great addition to our team, and photos of your past work. No calls please. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We look forward to learning more about you!