Carpenter; Commercial Construction

Branch Builds is seeking a skilled Carpenter to join our growing team. The Carpenter constructs, erects, installs, and repairs structures and fixtures of wood, plywood, and wallboard, using carpenter’s hand tools and power tools, and conforms to local building codes.

• Studies blueprints, sketches, or building plans for information pertaining to type of material required, such as lumber or fiberboard, and dimensions of structure or fixture to be fabricated
• Selects specified type of lumber or other materials
• Prepares layout using rule, framing square, and calipers
• Marks cutting and assembly lines on materials using pencil, chalk, and marking gauge
• Shapes materials to prescribed measurements using saws, chisels, and planes
• Assembles cut and shaped materials and fastens them together with nails, dowel pins, or glue
• Verifies trueness of structure with plumb bob and carpenter’s level
• Erects framework for structures and lays sub-flooring
• Builds stairs and lays out and installs partitions and cabinet work
• Covers subfloor with building paper to keep out moisture and lays hardwood, parquet, and wood‑strip‑block floors by nailing floors to subfloor or cementing them to mastic or asphalt base
• Applies shock‑absorbing, sound‑deadening and decorative paneling to ceilings and walls
• Fits and installs prefabricated window frames, doors, and weather stripping, interior and exterior trim, and finish hardware, such as locks, letter drops, and kick plates
• Constructs forms and chutes for pouring concrete
• Erects scaffolding and ladders for assembling structures above ground level
• May weld metal parts to steel structural members
• Attends to work orders per supervisors’ instruction

• High School diploma or equivalent
• High School level mathematics and language (reading/writing/listening) skills
• At least 4 years of prior carpentry experience

It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of the Company not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a veteran, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, and other terms and condition of employment.

Branch provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment unless doing so would provide an undue hardship. If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing an employment application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please call

It is the policy of The Branch Group and its subsidiary companies Branch Civil, Inc., Branch Builds, and Hopkins | Lacy to assure that applicants for employment and employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, political affiliation, disability, or veteran status. Such action shall include employment, upgrading, demotion, transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training;

including apprenticeship, pre‑apprenticeship, and/or on‑the‑job‑training. Tina Pfalzgraf is Branch Group’s EEO Officer, and she can be contacted at 3635 Peters Creek Road, Roanoke, VA 24018, or .