Short version, and we would rather say it plainly than waste your time: we are not always hiring. JB is a small crew and it stays small on purpose. There is no rolling list of vacancies here and we are not going to pretend there is.
What we do is keep track of people we would want to work with, and call them when something opens up. If that is worth two minutes to you, the form at the bottom goes straight to John.
What the work actually is
Nobody should take a job they did not understand, so here is the honest description.
It is outside, in Central Texas. July is brutal and we start early because of it. It is physical: lumber, concrete, ladders, tools, a lot of walking on uneven ground. Some days are a fence in a back yard and some days are a roof in the sun. Jobs move around greater Austin, so there is driving.
It is also genuinely good work. You finish a thing, you can see it, and the person who owns it is usually standing right there being pleased about it. That is rarer than it sounds.
What we look for
- You show up when you said you would. This is most of it. It sounds like a low bar and it is the single thing that separates the crews that last from the ones that do not.
- You tell the truth about what you know. Nobody minds "I have not done that before." Everybody minds finding out afterwards.
- You care whether it is right. The joint you cannot see from the patio still has to be right, because we are the ones who have to stand behind it.
- You are decent to be around. Small crew. You are in a truck with these people.
- You are safe. With yourself, with the crew, and on somebody else's property with their kids and their dog in the yard.
What you do not need
Every trade on the list. Nobody has all of them, John included.
He has taken somebody on with no experience at all and taught them the work from scratch, and that person is still in the trade today. If you are starting out, want to learn, and will turn up, say so on the form. That is a conversation worth having.
You also do not need a resume. Plenty of good tradespeople have never written one and it has nothing to do with whether they can build. If you have one, send it. If you do not, fill in the form and tell us what you have worked on.
Subcontractors
We work with a handful of subs we trust and we are always open to meeting more, particularly concrete crews and roofers. Same form. Say which trade you are in and whether you carry your own insurance, and John will reach out if it is a fit.
To be completely clear
Sending this form does not create a job application for a specific position, does not put you in a queue, and is not an offer of employment. We are a small business and we cannot promise a reply to everybody or a role that does not exist yet.
What we can promise is that John reads these himself, and that if he calls you it is because he actually wants to talk to you.