Timber Framer | Timberbuilt

CRAFTSMEN

CAREERS

CRAFTSMEN

CAREERS

We choose to use people, not machines, to craft our joinery.

As a member of our shop team, your job starts with an education in age old joinery techniques that utilize hand-cut mortise and tenon connection joints. You’ll start with responsibly sourced timbers, which you’ll cut to length based on drawings by our design department.

Shaping joinery out of a full timber is a process of reduction. Beginning with the biggest saw in the shop, you’ll gradually work the timbers down, progressing from power saws and drills to simple hand chisels, mallets, planers, and knives.

Grab a sledge hammer and some pipe clamps: your job isn’t done until you test fit everything.

THE JOB

Measure and cut large timbers with handheld circular saws
Chisel precise mortise and tenon joints
Arrange timbers in your workspace using a small forklift
Test fit your timbers by assembling them in sections using clamps
Help us create homes rooted in nature and in centuries of craftsmanship

QUALIFICATIONS

Details are important, but can you swing a sledge hammer?

This is an on-your-feet-all-day kinda job. Experience is not necessary but comfort using basic carpentry tools would be helpful. Also:

• good listener and learner
• proficient using a tape measure
• strength and mobility

You don’t need superhuman strength, but this is PHYSICAL work.

We’re not over here making jewelry.

THE WORKSPACE

You’ll find some cool things around the shop.

These timbers were reclaimed from a building in New York City. They started their life as a tree in the 1450s.

That’s before Columbus came to America.

Our timber craftsmen share a lifestyle.

They work hard. They smell like pine.

And they build lots of Christmas presents each year.

GETTING STARTED

Check out the tools you’ll need for work then fill out the application below.

Thanks for your interest in Timberbuilt!

APPLY FOR OUR SHOP TEAM

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Do you have a job now? Where?

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What makes you tick? How do you get your grins? Do you hunt, fish, read books, watch movies, make paper airplanes? (Don't worry. This isn't a spelling test -- we'd just like to know a little about you so anything you can offer will help.)

Please describe any relevant experience in the building industry, include your comfort level measuring and cutting with circular saws.

This job requires some heavy lifting, assembling timbers on the ground, using sledge hammers, and being on your feet all day. Are you up to the task?

Yes. I'm physically fit enough for the job.

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Timberbuilt is an earth-friendly Western New York design/build company in business for over 25 years. We have a brand new production shop and we are constantly updating our vehicles and our tools to provide a clean, efficient, and safe work environment. Our tag line — Artful, Rugged, Green — is a good description of our homes and our people.