Craft Manager

About the role

The Craft Manager leads and coordinates a crew of carpenters and laborers to ensure high-quality, efficient, and safe completion of carpentry-related tasks on construction projects. This role combines hands‑on carpentry work with supervisory responsibilities, ensuring that project schedules, budgets, and quality standards are met while maintaining a safe and productive work environment. This individual will work with project teams on manpower needs, maintain the craft tracker, and schedule craft accordingly.

The Craft Manager helps with interviews, hiring new craft employees, career pathing and training, performance reviews and crucial conversations as needed.

Full‑time

The Craft Manager leads and coordinates a crew of carpenters and laborers to ensure high-quality, efficient, and safe completion of carpentry-related tasks on construction projects. This role combines hands‑on carpentry work with supervisory responsibilities, ensuring that project schedules, budgets, and quality standards are met while maintaining a safe and productive work environment. This individual will work with project teams on manpower needs, maintain the craft tracker, and schedule craft accordingly.

The Craft Manager helps with interviews, hiring new craft employees, career pathing and training, performance reviews and crucial conversations as needed.

• Hiring/ firing/ recruiting craft personnel
• Specific job placement with consideration to project needs, employee skillset’s geographic location
• Manage the craft tracker.
• Facilitates, orchestrates changes during the Superintendent meetings.
• Solely responsible for the manpower requests and communications.
• Jumps in on “one off” days when specific project tasks or extra help is needed.
• Craft training the “BCI way.”
• Timecard best practices, DTHA’s, near misses
• Has an intimate feel for each one strengths/weaknesses.
• Trains accordingly.
• Review and coordinate PTO requests with the individual/team.
• Career involvement
• Provide on the job training and mentoring to crew members.
• Competency matrix
• Participate in reviews, raises and bonus reviews.
• Disciplinary action
• Help with deliveries when needed as support to the warehouse.
• Take lead and facilitate self‑perform site fencing installation.
• Walk with project teams to assess tasks needed, perform material take‑offs and assist in obtaining tools and materials needed for completing tasks.
• Lead, direct, and motivate carpentry crew members to meet production goals.
• Assign tasks, monitor progress, and ensure work is completed, on time and according to project plans.
• Communicate effectively with project managers, site supervisors, and subcontractors to coordinate work activities.
• Perform skilled carpentry tasks including measuring, cutting, assembling, and installing wood and other materials according to blueprints and specifications.
• Operate hand tools, power tools, and other construction equipment safely and effectively.
• Can train these operations as needed.
• Ensure all carpentry work meets quality, safety, and code requirements.
• Interpret and work from construction drawings, blueprints, and plans.
• Order and manage materials, tools, and supplies as needed for assigned tasks.
• Monitor jobsite safety and enforce compliance with company and OSHA safety standards.
• Identify and address potential hazards or issues before they impact progress.

• Minimum 5 years of carpentry experience, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or foreman role.
• Proven ability to read and interpret construction drawings and blueprints.
• Strong communication, leadership and crew management skills.
• Advanced knowledge of carpentry techniques, tools, and materials.
• Ability to work independently and make decisions under pressure.
• Excellent problem‑solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Commitment to and full understanding of Brinkman’s safety and quality program.
• Current driver’s license & valid for the past consecutive 12 months.
• Acceptable Motor Vehicle Record.
• Ability to navigate different technical platforms:
  Outlook, Excel, Autodesk.
• Familiar with layout best practices, understands importance of maintaining control and grid lines,…