Timber Frame Carpenter
Description
CrissCross Timberworks Inc.
Cranbrook, BC
website: www.crisscrosstw.com
Job Position: Timber Frame Carpenter
CrissCross Timberworks is seeking an experience carpenter with heavy timber construction knowledge and skills to join their team. CrissCross is a timber design and fabrication company bringing innovative modern wood structures and traditional timber frame structures to reality. CrissCross was founded in 2022 and has been operating for less than one year. We are a small company with innovative ideas and are looking to add to our team to increase our capacity. We are specifically looking for someone who is a team player, who is keen to take on responsibility and has the necessary leadership characteristics to lead a crew. Given we are a newly formed company, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to play a key role in the growth of the company making this an exciting place to work. We are located in Cranbrook, BC and service mostly the East Kootenays, with projects occasionally outside of this area.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience:
• Minimum of three years construction experience (framing experience)
• Experience constructing timber structures, with a solid understanding of manufacturing and assembly. The preferred candidate will be someone with timber framing experience who is knowledgeable using solid sawn timber, engineered timber products (CLT, GLT, NLT, PSL, LVL, etc.), and integrating these with steel and concrete.
• Ability to efficiently read shop and assembly drawings
• Efficient using specialty timber framing tools for hand crafting timber structures
• Strong comprehension of building principles for residential and commercial structures
• Telehandler operator certification
• Rigging certification
• Fall protection certification
• No formal construction diploma or certificate necessary
Personal Characteristics
• Willingness to learn and try new ways of doing things
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Willingness occasionally travel to oversee installs
• Effective problem solver with a positive attitude
• Desire to live in the mountains!
Tasks and Roles:
- mill logs
- plane timbers
- complete joinery on timbers
- sand and stain timbers
- loading timber packages for transport
- deliver timber packages to jobsite
- oversee timber package assemblies on site
- maintaining equipment and shop tools
- building company infrastructure
Email application to braeden@crisscrosstw.com with “Timber Framer Application” in the subject line.
Please include your resume as well as a portfolio with sample photos of projects you have worked on in the past with descriptions of your specific tasks on those projects.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
Pay and compensation is dependent on candidate's experience.
- Job type: Full-Time
- Company: CrissCross Timberworks Inc.
jobs | construction, trades
2023-06-26