Lead Carpenter: Job Description for the Lead Carpenter

Overall Responsibilities:

  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Carpentry Labor
  • All Subcontractors
  • All Materials
  • All Inspections
  • Collection of Progress Payments
  • Job Clean-Up
  • Completion Date as Specified
  • Maintenance of Job Records

Specific Duties:

1. You are on-site manager on the construction job. Your good performance is extremely important to the success of our company. You are on the "front line" in achieving our company goals of superior product quality and superior customer satisfaction.

2. You are responsible for knowing and understanding all job paperwork: plans, specifications, and change orders. Any questions you have, or discrepancies you discover, should be checked with the production manager.

3. You participate in the pre-construction conference and the quality control pre-completion punch list, along with the salesperson, production manager (when applicable), and owner(s).

4. You are responsible for performing all carpentry labor on the job, requesting help as it is needed. When other carpenters or helpers are on your job, you are responsible for assigning them work, expediting their performance, and generally supervising them.

5. Time cards for all personnel should be checked by you for accuracy, and signed and turned over to the production manager by noon on Thursdays. No checks will be issued without a time card.

6. You coordinate all subs, work out all of their layout problems, ensure their proper performance, and approve their payment, as well as seeing that they get timely inspections on their work. You also ensure that they cleanup their own jobs.

7. You are responsible for ordering materials promptly and accurately, with at least 24 hours notice. Please be sure to check materials deliveries for accuracy in quantity and measurement, and for any damage. Truck drivers are also to wait for your inspection, because when you sign their delivery ticket you are saying there is no problem with the delivery. Be sure to note any problems right on the ticket. Job personnel should pick up materials only under emergency conditions.

8. Protect the owners' property. Do not use, or allow others to use, any of the owners' equipment, tools, or cleaning supplies.

9. Set up and monitor a "safeplace" on the job where items to be re-used are protected.

10. You are responsible for the owners' security. Lock up carefully at the end of each day. Do not leave ladders at house windows to tempt burglars.

11. Adequate dust protection is one of your most important jobs. Try to keep all dust and dirt as isolated from the owners as possible. Broom-clean the job site daily, and see that trash is hauled away at least weekly. Trash should be put on plastic that is laid on top of plywood. Absolutely no food trash is to be put in the construction trash. Put all food trash in the owners' trash cans. Supervise "maid" clean services when applicable on larger jobs.

12. Deliver customer invoices and collect customer payments according to the contract terms.

13. See that a butt can is designated and used if there are any smokers on the job. No abusive or foul language is to be tolerated. Radios should be played quietly. Absolutely no alcohol or drugs may be used on or anywhere near the job site, even outside working hours. Such use of alcohol or drugs will result in instant dismissal.

14. The owners' telephone should be used only for business or emergency personal calls.

15. If the owners wish to make changes or have extra work done, you will estimate the work, write up the change order with precise specifications, explain the scope of work to the customer, agree on the price, obtain the owners' signatures and collect the payment.

16. Be responsible for installing a job sign in the most prominent place, and keep it in good condition.

17. Be sure the job stays on schedule or ahead of schedule by monitoring progress on the flow chart. Notify the production manager if you will have any problem keeping to this schedule.

18. Job safety for both the owner and our workers is your responsibility. Wear hard hats, goggles, and steel-toed work shoes where necessary. Be sure that the job conditions encourage safety. Monitor both company and individual equipment for proper safety features and safe electrical cords, and inform the production manager of any unsafe conditions.

19. You will be responsible for conducting the quality control pre-completion punch list. Where possible, you will conduct informal inspections leading up to the formal quality control punch list with the goal of having a "zero defect" final punch list.

20. When the quality control punch list is completed, you will collect the final payment and obtain the signature of the customer on the project satisfaction report.

21. You will be responsible for all service calls involving work done by the company during the one year warranty period.

22. You will attend all production meetings and offer ongoing support and suggestions on ways to improve the field operation of the company.