Senior / Lead Remodeling Carpenter – Bathroom & Tile

About the role

We’re hiring an experienced Senior or Lead Remodeling Carpenter who can take a bathroom remodel from demolition to final punch list with minimal oversight. Your core trade should be strong—ideally bathrooms, tile, or finish carpentry—and you should be able to contribute to other residential remodeling and repair work without ego. This is not a tile-only production position. The right person produces high-quality work, plans and sequences their own projects, communicates well with clients, documents progress, and helps apprentices get better. Leads also run projects, manage production, and protect job budgets.

Pay

Starting range: $33–$47/hour. All new hires, including experienced Senior and Lead candidates, start at a Remodeling Carpenter level while we verify field skills, production, communication, and reliability on our jobs. This paid evaluation typically takes 2–4 weeks, depending on the projects available. Once you’ve shown the skills, we move you to the level and pay that match.

• Remodeling Carpenter 1: $33–$37/hour — Completes skilled remodeling work but may still need direction with planning, sequencing, documentation, or unfamiliar scopes.
• Remodeling Carpenter 2: $38–$42/hour — Completes multiple scopes efficiently, solves routine field problems, communicates clearly, and handles substantial portions of a project independently.
• Senior Remodeling Carpenter: $42–$45/hour — Highly skilled across multiple scopes, consistently productive, strong with clients, dependable with planning, and completes projects with minimal oversight.
• Lead Carpenter: $45–$47/hour — Proven ability to plan and run projects, lead team members, manage production, protect job budgets, communicate with clients, identify change orders, document progress, and close projects successfully.

Benefits

• Steady, full-time W-2 employment
• Multiple ways to earn beyond your hourly rate, including a performance bonus program, a referral program, and job-based incentives
• Paid sick leave
• Clear job scopes and an organized project-management system
• A defined advancement path to Lead Carpenter
• Mileage reimbursement for approved business travel in a personal vehicle
• Potential company vehicle once trust, safe driving, reliability, and job responsibilities are established
• Support from apprentices, teammates, management, and licensed specialty trades when needed

Qualifications

• Proven professional experience completing full bathroom remodels, including shower prep, waterproofing, and tile, with minimal supervision
• Able to explain the waterproofing systems you’ve used and how you handle penetrations, seams, drains, transitions, and flood testing
• Strong skills across several other scopes: finish carpentry and trim, doors, vanity and cabinet installation, drywall repair and texture matching, interior painting
• Experience directing a helper or apprentice; Lead candidates should have experience running projects and working to a budget
• Professional, confident communication with homeowners
• Most personal hand tools and trade-specific core tools
• Valid driver’s license, insurable driving record, and reliable transportation to the shop and job sites
• Comfortable using a smartphone for schedules, photos, notes, and project updates
• Able to safely lift and carry at least 50 pounds
• Background check after a conditional offer of employment

You’re a strong fit if:

• You perform a core trade at a professional level and take shower prep, waterproofing, and finish details seriously
• You can plan your own work and finish a project without being managed day to day
• You’re willing to work outside your specialty and on smaller jobs without treating them as beneath you
• You communicate problems before they become expensive surprises
• You like helping an apprentice become more productive

This is not a fit if:

• You claim to be a lead but can’t independently plan and complete projects
• You cut corners on prep, waterproofing, protection, or finish details
• You blame scopes, materials, coworkers, or clients instead of communicating and solving problems
• You perform additional work without documented company and client approval
• You’re frequently late, unreliable, or hard to reach

Responsibilities

• Complete bathroom remodels and tile projects from demolition through final punch list with minimal oversight and no avoidable callbacks
• Install shower pans, waterproofing systems, wall and floor tile, niches, trims, grout, and sealant, and plan clean, symmetrical tile layouts
• Perform finish carpentry, trim, doors, vanities and cabinets, drywall repair and texture, painting, and general repairs
• Plan and sequence your work from the written scope, plans, and manufacturer instructions, and keep material needs ahead of the schedule
• Communicate with clients and project managers, and upload progress photos, notes, and updates through company apps
• Identify concealed damage, scope conflicts, and potential change orders, and document them for approval before doing additional work
• Lead and train apprentices and less-experienced team members (Lead: run projects, manage production, and protect job budgets)
• Protect occupied homes and keep job sites clean, organized, and safe

Schedule

Full-time W-2, Monday–Friday with occasional weekends. San Diego County, in person.