This is a bridge between hands-on carpentry work and supervision. You'll spend most of your week finessing the finer details of carpentry work, and the rest making sure the site runs. You'll lead the site, own the high-detail work yourself, coordinate subbies and deliveries, read and work from architectural drawings and shop drawings, and keep the site safe, tidy and compliant.

Key responsibilities

Lead the site — set out the work, allocate the day, check the quality before anyone else has to

Own the high-detail work yourself: architectural fixout, nail the feature elements, the finishes that get looked at closely

Coordinate subbies and deliveries so the trades in front of you aren't waiting and the ones behind you aren't held up

Read and work from architectural drawings, shop drawings and finishes schedules — and flag the clashes before they get built

Keep the site secure, tidy and compliant

Feed back to the Construction Manager and management team on programme, variations and anything that's about to go sideways

About you

Proven high-end residential experience — architectural or custom homes

Ability to lead a small crew and hold a standard without being a headache to work with





Confident reading architectural drawings, shop drawings and finishes schedules

Your own tools, a car and a current driver's licence — sites are across metro Melbourne and you'll potentially move between them to help on other sites

White Card (construction induction)

Cert III in Carpentry preferred — but if you've got the years and the work to show for it, we're more interested in that than the certificate

EWP, scaffold or first aid tickets are a bonus — not a dealbreaker

About us

We build a small number of high-end, architect-designed homes each year across Melbourne's inner east and south east blue chip suburbs. Basement-level construction, off-form concrete, curved facade screens, bespoke joinery. The kind of detail that only works when the person running the crew actually cares about it.

$90,000 – $110,000 + super, depending on experience — we pay for the standard we expect

Steady pipeline of work — we're not chasing the next job to keep people busy

Genuine progression to Site Manager for the right person

Work you'd actually put in your own portfolio

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