CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFIED // FOR CRAFTSMEN ONLY
TO: Qualified Personnel FROM: Selection & Assessment Cadre, Cornerstone Builders LLC RE: Experienced Carpenter — Custom Home Operations. Full-time, Sequim WA. $30–$40/hr. DATE: Immediate. Honestly, needed last month.
MISSION
ATTENTION. Cornerstone Builders, LLC — veteran-owned, operating continuously in the Sequim and Port Angeles sectors since 1981 — is conducting selection for one (1) experienced carpenter.
The mission: frame and finish custom homes, additions, and whole-house remodels. Designed in-house. No repeat floor plans, no two alike. Expected to stand dry, square, and beautiful for the next several hundred years.
Your primary role is framing. Bags on, most days, most of the year — floors, walls, roofs, foundation through exterior finish, plus interior finish work depending on what you bring to the team.
Jobsites around Sequim Port Angeles. Mostly from Diamond point to Ediz hook. Our Headquarters is at 261641 Hwy 101, Sequim.
This is not a job where you vanish into a subdivision. Every house you touch has your fingerprints on it, in a town small enough that everyone knows whose they are.
We build homes to improve our clients' lives. We run the company to do the same for the people who build them.
Terrain: wet. Command climate: relaxed. Coffee: constant.
THE ENEMY
Water.
It does not sleep. It has infinite patience and a perfect memory for the flashing detail somebody rushed on a Friday afternoon.
It also fights dirty. It will find the gap at your cuff the second you reach overhead. It will turn a set of plans into oatmeal, or bleed the ink just enough that the dimension you need is the one you can't read. Your tape hasn't retracted on its own since November.
If you've put in a winter here, none of this is news. It's just Tuesday. Bring good boots.
SUPPORT ELEMENT
You will not be sent in on bad intel.
Design, drafting, engineering coordination, permitting, estimating, and construction all run through one team under one roof. We plan the whole build sequence before anyone breaks ground and find what's wrong with the plans before you find it with a saw.
Materials get staged. Layout is thought through. When you show up, the work is ready.
We ask for a hard day. We make sure the day is worth working.
PAY & BENEFITS
Less exciting than the rest of this document. Considerably more important.
- $30–$40/hour, depending on skill and experience. More time in the trade and more you can already do moves you up the band — and you'll know your exact starting number before you take the job.
- No-interest company tool loans if you want to buy your own tools
- We don't run overtime. Our schedules are built so we don't need it. If it happens, it's paid at time and a half — but the plan is always that you finish the week at 40 hours.
- Health plan — we cover 75% of the premium (high-deductible plan paired with an HSA)
- Long-term disability — 100% company paid
- SIMPLE IRA — 3% company match
- Life and dental — available at group rates, employee-paid
- Paid holidays — Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the Friday after, and Christmas through New Year's. Typically 10+ company-paid days off.
- Paid time off that grows the longer you're here. Everyone starts at the state minimum. After that we bump your accrual at 3, 6, and 10 years — past what the state requires. The longer you're here, the more you get.
- Encouraged to take time off. Two weeks of real vacation a year, on top of the paid holidays. Use your accrued PTO or take it unpaid — either way, the time is yours.
- Year-round work. No seasonal layoffs. We hire for the long term.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Required:
- Frame from foundation through exterior finish with minimal supervision — complex walls, beams, setting trusses, hand-framed roofs, structural hardware
- Read plans and run layout
- Dry-in: weather barrier, flashing, window install, siding, exterior trim
- Remodel work: demo, matching existing conditions, keeping a finished house livable while work is performed
- Willing to teach. Bringing the younger guys along is part of the billet, not a favor you do us — the skill has to outlive the person carrying it
- Lift 50 lbs and work in Peninsula weather year-round
- Show up. On time. Consistently. This one eliminates more candidates than all the others combined.
Moves you up the band:
- Interior finish — hanging doors, paint-grade and stain-grade trim, T&G, mantels, hardware
- Experience running a small crew
NO KIDDING, THOUGH
You've probably read enough of these to know how they usually go. So if you remember one thing about Cornerstone, make it this:
We build homes to improve our clients' lives, and we run the company to do the same for the people who build them.
If that sounds like your kind of outfit, let's talk.
Apply through Indeed, or contact us directly: [email protected] | (360) 683-8477
We read every application, and if it's a fit you'll hear from us inside a week.
Cornerstone Builders, LLC — Sequim, WA. Veteran-owned. Building here since 1981.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $30.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- On-the-job training
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tools provided
Work Location: In person
