Cajun Industries, Llc
Full-service construction company offering industrial, commercial, and civil services.
Carpenter Foreman
Oversees carpentry crew, ensures safe, quality work, plans tasks, reads blueprints.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The Carpenter Foreman supervises and coordinates the activities of carpenter workers to ensure work is completed safely, correctly, and on schedule. This role involves planning jobs, respecting timelines, and securing necessary resources while possessing advanced layout skills, including the use of simon forms, anchor bolt layout, material takeoff from drawings, and adherence to safety requirements. Key responsibilities include inspecting the quality of work to meet standards, assisting and problem‑solving for workers, interpreting and enforcing company policies and safety regulations, and reading blueprints or sketches to generate reports. The foreman also builds and sets forms, uses leveling instruments, ties rebar, constructs scaffolding, performs finish carpentry, sets screeds, installs batter boards, and operates various hand and power tools, while providing support to other craft workers as needed. • Inspect work quality to ensure standards and specifications are met • Assist workers and resolve problems • Enforce company policies and safety regulations • Read and interpret blueprints/sketches; produce reports • Build and set forms, level instruments, tie rebar, construct scaffolding, finish carpentry, set screeds, install batter boards, and operate hand/power tools • Provide assistance to other craft workers as needed • Work on uneven, muddy, or loose surfaces and in adverse weather conditions • Communicate effectively with management and field crews • Perform math calculations and read/write instructions
Key Responsibilities
- ▸quality inspection
- ▸blueprint reading
- ▸form building
- ▸scaffolding erection
- ▸tool operation
- ▸safety enforcement
What You Bring
Physical demands require the ability to push, pull, lift, or carry up to 50 lb regularly and up to 100 lb occasionally, with frequent use of hands, arms, and legs, as well as climbing, balancing, and working on uneven or hazardous surfaces. The role may involve prolonged bending, crawling, kneeling, reaching overhead, and exposure to adverse weather, confined spaces, and various terrain conditions. Mentally, the foreman must communicate effectively with management, supervisors, and field workers, possess strong reading and writing comprehension for directions and safety policies, and apply math skills for calculations. Decision‑making, detail orientation, leadership, and motivational abilities are essential to maintain focus amid distractions and varied work tempos. • Lift/push/pull up to 50 lb regularly (occasionally up to 100 lb) • Demonstrate strong leadership, decision‑making, and attention to detail
Requirements
- ▸lift 50lb
- ▸leadership
- ▸decision‑making
- ▸detail‑oriented
- ▸math skills
- ▸communication
Work Environment
Onsite