Hiring for May opening
Assistant and Lead Carpenters
***PLEASE read the description below so you have a brief understanding as to what we're looking for. This is first and foremost a QUEER owned company. We are only seeking applicants who understand how to respectfully work in an environment with other queer people. Also part of our mission is to get more BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and women into construction. We highly encourage you to apply if you fall within these groups.***
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Karnage Construction is hiring skilled carpenters and historic preservation trades people to join our motley crew of construction workers. We are currently only looking for skilled carpenter applicants. Please do not apply unless it is for the carpenter position.
Karnage Construction is a disruptive force in the residential and historic preservation construction industry, a growing business with a solid track record of quality historic preservation and residential construction work across the state. Karnage is dedicated to growing their in house workforce of skilled tradespeople who are offered a living wage, in house training, and continuing education in the historic preservation and construction fields.
Karnage Construction has been in business since 2014, and is a Class A Licensed Residential Contractor. We are experienced working with the Richmond Citywide Architectural Review Board as well as the State Department of Historic Resources on historic properties, working on buildings in historic districts, and historic tax credit projects. We are able to assist homeowners in navigating the various hurdles and challenges that come with the joys of owning historic property. We are also experienced working as a subcontractor on larger projects for Commercial Contractors throughout Virginia.
Karnage Construction is actively involved in the local and national historic preservation world. Founder and owner Mo Karnage sits on the Junior Board of Historic Richmond as well as the board for the national Preservation Trades Network.
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Perks of employment
LGBTQIA+ friendly - all co workers are respectful of all sexual and gender identities. This includes proper use of pronouns.
PTO including vacation, sick days, and federal holidays.
Can easily request days off ahead of time for doctor appointments, etc through our shared Google calendar.
Most tools provided including proper PPE.
Opportunity for approved over time
ADA compliance
Access to educational workshops
Meeting some really cool clients
No one will be turned away from a job offer due to past incarceration.
Company pays for occasional group outings, communal snacks, and meals.
Pay
$20/hour starting
Higher pay available based on experience
After 30 days, there will be a review where a raise can be given.
Minimum skill requirements
Read a tape measure
Cut and install trim
Cut and install stain grade trim
Mortise joints
Use a router
Install/hang a door
Understanding of Google Drive
Ability to use a smartphone
Must have your own transportation
Be able to lift 50 pounds or more
Be able to be on your feet for extended periods of time
Preferred Skill Requirements
Experience with painting
Ability to cut a line
Sheetrock repair/mudding
Cabinet installation
Tool Requirements:
Basic Hand Tools
Power Tools appreciated but not required
Occasional out of town work so if you have a valid drivers license that is very helpful. Not required though.
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Resumes should be attached to your application email and sent to mo@karnageconstruction.com
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Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Statement:
Karnage Construction LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. It is the policy of Karnage Construction to obtain the best-qualified and best-fit applicants available for each vacancy, without regard to sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, political affiliation, age, disability, gender identity or expression, bad musical taste, marital status, pregnancy, family medical or genetic information, sexual identity, or other non-merit, or non-job-related factors.
Karnage Construction will take measures to emphasize the recruitment of qualified BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women, persons with disabilities, older persons, and previously incarcerated individuals.
Karnage Construction will also take into consideration an individual’s status as a favorably discharged veteran of the armed forces of the United States provided that such veteran meets all of the knowledge, skills and eligibility requirements for the available position.
Karnage Construction will not discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.
Karnage Construction will make all decisions regarding recruitment, hiring, promotions, reassignments, training and other terms and conditions of employment without unlawful discrimination.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At Karnage Construction we are anarchists, we love individuality, and are part of building a more accepting, inclusive future. Karnage Construction strives to include the values of diversity, equity and inclusion in everything we do. We encourage our employees to be authentic both at work and outside of work.
Karnage Construction is big and loud about who we are. We do this intentionally to make room for the next trans or queer person who wants to work in construction and maybe is just not as loud yet. We are making room in the industry for necessary change towards a more diverse and honestly very different construction world.
We hire and specifically seek out people with identities which have been historically underrepresented in the construction industry - which includes women, LGBTQIA+ folks, BIPOC, felons, veterans, nonbinary and trans people.
We offer in house training and continuing education opportunities, which allow us to hire amazing people who have not previously had the opportunity to learn how to do what Karnage does.
We recruit, support and employ felons and previously incarcerated individuals, including working with probation/parole and work release situations. We believe that no one is disposable and strive to counteract some of the damage done to people from the prison industrial complex. We are working to formalize a relationship with the VA DOC and other advocacy organizations so we can recruit previously incarcerated individuals on reentry and do more to engage with that populace.
We are also developing an apprenticeship program - both in talks with the State to participate in their program, but also working to have our own curriculum officially approved so we can essentially have an in house trade school.
We participate in the Richmond LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce as well as the National LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). We sponsor events by various LGBTQ organizations.
We participate in supporting local affordable housing efforts through donations as well as volunteering. Mo was with Richmond Habitat for Humanity for about 3 years, and since then Karnage Construction has supported affordable housing in multiple ways. Mo volunteered as a site supervisor with Fauquier County Habitat for their Women Build house over several weekends in 2022. Karnage Construction was a financial sponsor of the first ever Richmond Habitat Pride Build house in 2023 and the crew spent a day on site as volunteers. Karnage Construction was also a sponsor of the 2024 Powhatan Habitat first ever Women Build house, with Mo working as the site supervisor throughout the project. .
Karnage Construction engages in community outreach through workshops, tabling at events like career day at local elementary schools, and more in efforts to show more people that there is future in construction for folks who are not just straight cis men.
Karnage Construction also supports the DEI values through how we treat our employees. We pay a living wage, we are constantly working to improve our benefit packages, we are flexible about time off. We want people to stay here, to make careers with Karnage, and to be able to support themselves comfortably while doing so.
