Careers
78 careers across 8 categories, from the jobsite to the office to the insurance side of the industry. Pick a category below, or a specific role if you already know what you're after.
Field & Trades
19 entriesCarpenter
Builds the wood and metal framing that gives a structure its shape, and the finish work that makes it look done.
Concrete Worker (Cement Mason / Finisher)
Places, shapes, and finishes concrete before it sets, a narrow window to get a permanent, highly visible surface exactly right.
Drywall Installer & Finisher (Taper)
Hangs and finishes the walls and ceilings of almost every interior space, the trade that turns a framed structure into rooms.
Electrician
Installs and wires the systems that bring power, light, and data into a building, and keeps them from becoming a fire hazard.
Elevator & Escalator Technician
Installs, maintains, and repairs the elevators and escalators that move people and freight through a building, one of the highest-paid trades most newcomers have never heard of.
Equipment Operator
Runs the excavators, bulldozers, and cranes that move earth and materials, and for cranes specifically, has to hold a real federal certification to do it legally.
Glazier
Installs the glass, curtain wall, and storefront systems that give a building its skin, precision work where a fraction of an inch off is the difference between a weathertight seal and a leak.
HVAC Technician
Installs and services the heating, cooling, and ventilation systems that keep a building livable, one of the few trades with a federal certification requirement baked into the job.
Ironworker
Erects the structural steel skeleton a building hangs from, often working at height on beams before any floor or safety net exists below.
Construction Laborer
The most common way into the entire industry, no prior experience required, and a front-row seat to every trade before choosing which one to specialize in.
Mason
Builds with brick, block, and stone, work that's visible on the finished building in a way most structural trades aren't.
Millwright
Installs, aligns, and maintains the heavy industrial machinery inside a facility, an entry point into manufacturing and industrial construction most newcomers never hear about.
Painter
Applies the finish coat that's the most visible part of almost every building, and, on older buildings, has to know exactly what's under that old paint before touching it.
Pipefitter / Steamfitter
Installs and welds the high-pressure and process piping systems that move steam, chemicals, and fluids through commercial and industrial buildings, a distinct trade and apprenticeship from residential plumbing.
Plumber
Installs and maintains the pipes and fixtures that bring in clean water and carry waste out, work that has to be right the first time, since most of it disappears behind a wall.
Roofer
Installs and repairs the one system every building depends on to keep water out, physically demanding work done almost entirely outdoors, at height.
Sheet Metal Worker
Fabricates and installs the ductwork, flashing, and metal roofing systems that move air through a building and keep water out of it.
Solar PV Installer
Installs the rooftop and ground-mount solar panel systems behind the fastest-growing segment of the construction trades.
Welder
Joins metal components with heat and pressure, and for structural work, has to prove it on a certification test before being allowed to do it on a real building.
Project & Operations
10 entriesAssistant Project Manager
The step between Project Engineer and Project Manager, carrying real ownership of pieces of the budget and schedule instead of just documenting them.
Assistant Superintendent
Runs the field alongside the Superintendent, the natural next step for someone who wants to manage a jobsite rather than move into the office.
Document Control Specialist
Owns the submittal logs, RFI logs, and drawing revisions that keep everyone on a project working from the same current information, a real entry point into the office side of construction.
Project Engineer
The project management team's problem-solver and paperwork owner, the entry point into a Project Manager career for most people who don't come up through the trades.
Project Manager
Runs the business side of a construction project so the people building it can focus on building it.
QA/QC Inspector
Physically inspects and tests completed work against the specifications, the hands-on counterpart to a Quality Control Manager's oversight role.
Quality Control Manager
Makes sure the finished work actually matches the contract specifications, the counterpart to a Safety Manager, protecting the project instead of the people.
Safety Manager
Owns the jobsite's safety program, training, inspections, and incident tracking, on projects large enough to need a dedicated safety role beyond what the superintendent handles day to day.
Scheduler
Builds and maintains the project schedule everyone else's work depends on, the person who can tell you exactly what happens if today's delay ripples forward.
Superintendent
Runs the jobsite day-to-day so the schedule, the safety, and the actual sequence of work all hold together.
Preconstruction & Estimating
8 entriesBid Coordinator
Manages the logistics of getting a bid out the door on time, a realistic first job for someone interested in estimating who isn't ready to price a project yet.
Cost Engineer
Tracks and forecasts a project's cost all the way through construction, not just at the bid, the estimator's counterpart for the life of the job rather than just its start.
Estimator
Prices the job before anyone breaks ground, so the bid actually makes money instead of just winning the work.
Heavy Civil Estimator
Estimates earthwork, utilities, and infrastructure work using an entirely different cost basis than pricing a building, opening the door to a whole side of the industry this site hadn't represented yet.
Preconstruction Manager
Runs everything that has to happen before a shovel hits the ground, estimating, scheduling, and design coordination pulled into one team's responsibility.
Quantity Surveyor
Measures and values construction work in detail, a title that comes out of the UK/Commonwealth surveying tradition but increasingly shows up at U.S. firms with international ties.
Senior Estimator
Leads the bid on the biggest, most complex jobs and mentors the estimators doing the takeoffs underneath them.
Value Engineering Consultant
Leads the structured process of finding ways to cut cost without cutting function, a specialized advisory role built around a concept most newcomers walk right past without realizing it's a distinct career.
Business
10 entriesBusiness Development Manager
Builds the relationships and pursuit strategy behind a contractor's biggest wins, the senior counterpart to Construction Sales focused on major, long-cycle pursuits rather than direct selling.
Certified Payroll Specialist
Handles the specialized prevailing-wage payroll reporting that public-works contractors are legally required to file, a real back-office role built entirely around a concept this site already teaches.
Construction Accountant
Tracks the money on a job, job costing, retention, work-in-progress reporting, using accounting methods that look nothing like a typical retail or service business's books.
Construction Attorney
Handles the contract disputes, lien claims, and bond claims that show up throughout a project, the legal career path most newcomers never realize sits behind half the vocabulary on this site.
Construction Sales / Business Development
Wins the work that everyone else on the project team eventually gets to build, relationship-driven sales in an industry where the next job usually comes from the last client.
Contracts Administrator
Manages the paperwork that makes every relationship on a project legally enforceable, the prime contract, every subcontract, and every change to either.
Human Resources Manager (Construction)
Handles hiring, employee relations, and compliance for a construction company's workforce, with construction-specific wrinkles a general HR role doesn't have to deal with.
Operations Manager
Oversees multiple project teams and their Project Managers at once, the role that scales a contractor's capacity beyond what one PM can run.
Procurement Manager
Makes sure the right materials and equipment show up on the right jobsite at the right time, a job that's mostly invisible when it goes well and a schedule crisis when it doesn't.
Risk Manager
Owns a contracting company's own insurance and risk program, the contractor's-side counterpart to the insurance industry careers this site otherwise only covers from the claims side.
Technology & Design
10 entriesBIM/VDC Specialist
Builds the 3D digital model of a project before it's built, so conflicts between trades get caught on a screen instead of on the jobsite.
CAD Technician
Turns a designer's or engineer's sketch and markup into a precise, buildable drawing, often the fastest way into the design side of construction without an architecture or engineering degree.
Civil Engineer
Designs the grading, drainage, and utility systems that make a site buildable before anyone can pour a foundation, the single biggest missing career on a site full of concepts that assume this role exists.
Construction Data Analyst
Turns the mountain of data construction generates, costs, schedules, safety incidents, productivity, into answers that change how the next project gets planned.
Construction Technology Manager
Oversees BIM, drone, and software rollout across a whole company, the director-level counterpart to the hands-on specialists who execute technology on a single project.
Drone/UAV Specialist
Flies drones to capture aerial imagery, topographic data, and progress documentation for a project, one of the few construction roles with a hard federal license requirement.
GIS Specialist
Works with the spatial data a Surveyor and Drone/UAV Specialist collect, turning raw location data into the maps and analysis a project actually uses.
MEP Engineer
Designs the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems that make a building livable, work behind three of the site's most concept-dense trades with no design-side career representing any of them until now.
Structural Engineer
Designs the structural steel, concrete, and foundation systems that keep a building standing, pairing with the trades that actually build what the drawings specify.
Surveyor
Establishes the exact boundaries, elevations, and reference points a project gets built against, the one role where being off by an inch can mean a building in the wrong place.
Specialized Construction
8 entriesDemolition Supervisor
Runs the high-risk process of taking a structure down safely, a distinct specialty most newcomers don't realize is its own career track until they see the certification behind it.
Environmental/Remediation Specialist
Manages hazardous materials on a construction or demolition site, lead paint, asbestos, contaminated soil, where which certification is legally required depends entirely on which hazard is actually involved.
Facilities Manager
Keeps a building running well after the construction crew leaves, maintenance, repairs, and the small renovation projects that never really stop.
Historic Preservation Specialist
Makes sure a landmark or historic building gets restored the right way rather than just the fast way, pairing with a Restoration Project Manager but for buildings where the standards are legal, not just practical.
Owner's Representative
Works for the owner and only the owner, brought in specifically because everyone else on a project (the GC, the architect, the CM) has their own interests to balance too.
Deep Foundation / Pile-Driving Specialist
Runs the specialized equipment that drives piles and caissons deep into the ground to support a structure where a standard foundation won't work, a real, well-paid niche most newcomers never see.
Renewable Energy Project Manager
Manages solar, battery-storage, and microgrid builds from permitting through commissioning, the project-management path into the fastest-growing segment of the construction industry.
Restoration Project Manager
Runs the actual rebuild after property damage, the project management counterpart to the estimators and adjusters who scope and price the claim.
Insurance & Claims
6 entriesBuilder's Risk Underwriter
Decides what a builder's risk policy actually covers before a loss ever happens, the underwriting side of insurance this site had only ever covered from the claims side.
Insurance Adjuster (Property/Casualty)
Investigates property damage claims and decides what the insurance company will actually pay to fix it.
Insurance Restoration Estimator
Writes the repair estimate that turns a damage inspection into a number, the estimating specialist inside a claim, distinct from the adjusters who decide what actually gets paid.
Loss Control / Risk Engineer
Inspects jobsites on the insurer's behalf to manage risk before a loss happens, distinct from a Safety Manager who does similar work but for the contractor, not the insurance company.
Public Adjuster
Works for the policyholder, not the insurance company, the mirror image of the Insurance Adjuster role, hired to make sure a property owner's claim gets full and fair value.
Surety Bond Underwriter
Decides whether a contractor gets bonded at all, sitting behind every bid bond and performance bond this site already teaches without a career to represent it.
Consultants & Advisory
7 entriesCommissioning Agent
Independently verifies that a building's MEP systems actually work as designed before turnover, distinct from QA/QC and unrepresented on this site despite commissioning existing as a concept since the original build.
Construction Claims Consultant
Gets brought in when a project dispute is heading toward, or already in, a legal claim, to untangle what actually happened and what it's worth.
Construction Consultant (Cost/General)
Brought in for independent expertise on a specific problem, a troubled budget, a stalled schedule, a process that isn't working, rather than to run the day-to-day project.
Expert Witness (Construction Litigation)
Provides expert opinion testimony in a construction dispute, a role courts qualify case by case rather than one with its own license, though the underlying opinion sometimes requires one.
Permit Expediter
Navigates building permits, plan review, and zoning approvals on an owner's or GC's behalf, a specialized, low-visibility career built for someone detail-oriented who'd rather not work a jobsite.
Scheduling & Delay Consultant
Called in specifically to answer one question in a dispute, what actually caused the delay, and whose fault was it, using schedule data rather than opinion.
Sustainability / LEED Consultant
Guides a project through green building certification, most often LEED, managing the credits, documentation, and coordination that turn a design intent into a certified building.