Custom Builder

Carter Lumber • Millersburg, OH

11d

About The Position

A Carter Architectural Millwork Custom Door Builder assembles and builds doors accurately to produce a quality product. The role completes job orders according to the production schedule with minimal supervision, follows safety regulations when handling materials and equipment, and supports the company’s mission and goals.

The Custom Builder reviews drawings, specifications, work orders, and materials; plans build sequences and fabrication methods; and fabricates and assembles custom architectural millwork. The role performs quality inspections, coordinates with other production teams, records production information, protects completed products, and maintains a safe, organized work area.

Requirements

• Experience as a cabinetmaker, bench carpenter, custom millwork builder, or architectural woodworker, with demonstrated custom fabrication ability.
• Ability to read and interpret architectural drawings, approved shop drawings, sections, details, specifications, and work orders.
• Proficiency with shop math, fractions, geometry, layout, measuring, and tolerance control.
• Knowledge of wood products, veneers, laminates, hardware, joinery, adhesives, machining, sanding, and assembly methods.
• Ability to select an efficient build approach, solve fit and constructability issues, and work with limited supervision.
• Strong attention to detail, craftsmanship, communication, and accountability for quality and schedule.
• Ability to handle materials and equipment while adhering to applicable safety requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with architectural woodwork standards and commercial millwork requirements.

Responsibilities

• Review approved shop drawings, details, specifications, work orders, material lists, and production notes to understand design intent and quality requirements.
• Plan build sequences, joinery, tooling, templates, fixtures, material usage, and assembly approaches for custom or nonstandard products.
• Verify field dimensions, tolerances, revisions, materials, grain direction, veneer sequence, finishes, and hardware before fabrication.
• Identify unclear, conflicting, or unbuildable details and coordinate with Engineering or the Production Supervisor before proceeding.
• Lay out components accurately using drawings, full-size patterns, templates, story poles, or direct measurement.
• Fabricate custom architectural millwork from hardwood, veneer, plywood, MDF, particleboard, laminates, and other approved materials.
• Build complex assemblies using appropriate joinery, adhesives, dowels, splines, biscuits, fasteners, clamps, jigs, and fixtures.
• Cut, shape, route, drill, sand, scribe, fit, and assemble components using authorized hand tools and woodworking equipment.
• Construct curved, angled, radiused, segmented, or other nonstandard components required by approved designs.
• Fit wood moldings, trim, doors, drawers, panels, hardware, and specialty components for consistent reveals, alignment, and operation.
• Fabricate or integrate solid-surface components when assigned and properly trained, following approved procedures.
• Develop reusable templates, jigs, or build methods to improve accuracy, safety, or repeatability without changing approved design intent.
• Perform first-piece and in-process inspections for dimensions, square, fit, joint quality, surface condition, grain and color match, hardware function, and conformity to drawings.
• Build to project specifications, CAM quality requirements, and referenced architectural woodwork standards.
• Communicate material, drawing, tooling, quality, or schedule concerns promptly and recommend practical manufacturing solutions.
• Coordinate handoffs with machining, casework assembly, finishing, solid surface, quality, packaging, and shipping teams.
• Protect completed products and maintain job, part, room, and sequence identification throughout fabrication.
• Record production progress, labor, completed quantities, rework, and material issues in designated systems or work documentation.
• Provide hands-on guidance and share proven methods with less-experienced team members when requested.
• Follow machine-guarding, lockout/tagout, dust-control, adhesive, lifting, housekeeping, and personal protective equipment requirements.
• Inspect tools, cords, blades, bits, guards, and fixtures before use; report unsafe conditions and maintenance needs promptly.
• Maintain a clean, organized work area and participate in daily coordination and continuous-improvement activities.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage (single and family plans) available after 30 days of employment.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D.
• Optional supplemental life insurance.
• Company-match 401(k).
• Vacation time and paid holidays.
• Vendor incentives.
• Room for growth; the company promotes from within.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed