Live-In Lead Skilled Trades Worker

Start Date: Spring 2023

Come Live on-site and be the lead skilled trades worker to execute our infrastructure plans and systems. Have the freedom to build out the designs and shed your own unique touches along the way!

Read below for:

  • The specific things this position will be accountable for

  • Experience Needed

  • Benefits

  • Housing

  • Compensation

  • Training

The Lead Skilled Trades Worker will be accountable for:

  • Review and execution of building out infrastructure and system based on site plans

  • Working within the given budget and prioritization to create and optimize project completion

  • Installing solar panels and racking

  • Installing pre fab container bunk houses, washroom house, and office space

  • Small concrete foundations

  • Operating heavy equipment

  • Rigging and moving dwellings and buildings around the land

  • Finishing work on current structures from small framing, siding, roofing, and stair building

  • Building to code for permits

  • Installing basic water lines and systems for common area, spa, and resident sites

  • Making material lists and timelines to clearly communicate to the team what we need and when to hit certain deadlines etc

  • Machine repair and maintenance

  • Running the sawmill and getting creative with materials on our land

  • You will be provided with volunteers and live work exchange hands to help complete the project. You do need to manage and lead them

  • Reporting and sharing results in weekly meetings

  • Looking after your personal health with weekly fitness and mindfulness goals

Experience & Traits Needed

  • 4-5+ years of skilled trades / farm hand or something similar that is applicable experience

  • An eagerness to find solutions and learn fast

  • Willing to adapt to the situation at hand and prioritize

  • A deep enjoyment of being in nature and working together with a team

  • Clear communication skills

  • Must have valid drivers license

  • A good sense of humour and playfulness

  • You like to get things done, to do the task well, and fill your time productively (the opposite of not wanting to work and complaining about it)

Not Needed But A Benefit

  • Experienced with heavy equipment repairs

  • Can work with steel, fabricate, and weld etc

  • Knowledge and experience building ponds, swales, and gravity feeding water

  • Your vehicle is a truck

  • Have you own cell phone

  • Have your own laptop

Benefits

  • Live on site on our 160 acre sanctuary rent free

  • Company gas card to cover all work related fuel expenses and cheaper fuel for personal use

  • Eat from the garden during summer and fall

  • Free access to all our courses and trainings

  • Free access to retreats and workshops

  • Full access to amenities like the saunas, spa, commercial kitchen, etc

  • Open health care spending plan so you can choose how you want to spend it. No restrictions so you can use it for alternative healing.

  • Quarterly team retreats. Let’s do some fun activities together like go karting, float the river, grab some farm to table food.

  • Take time off whenever you want (as long as your job is being fulfilled)

  • Salary – everyone is on salary. Don’t worry about taking days off and losing out on pay. We got you covered.

Housing

  • Your own dwelling is required at this time for this position

  • We recommend a tiny home but a trailer or other options are fine. It can be a tough go up here in the winter sometimes.

  • Your immediate Family is welcome! We don’t expect you to leave them behind and come live out here on your own!

  • You will have use of all public spaces for washrooms, showering, cooking, doing dishes, laundry, and the spa

  • We supply water. May have to transport it at first but will get a water line ran to your resident site.

  • You must supply your own power source. Solar with back up gen. If you don’t have solar yet we can hook you up at cost with our supplier.

Salary

  • $4000-5000+ / month starting salary (competitive and dependant on skill/experience)

  • Bonuses based on targets

  • Higher targets will be discussed to get you to your goals

  • 3 month onboarding period (some benefits kick in right away, others will kick in when the onboarding period is complete)

  • Paid training

Training

One-on-one training and on-boarding on-site with Shelby (co-founder)

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Please note: We will keep all resumes on file and will be in touch with applicants if and when they align.