Join Our Team
A lot of construction companies talk about culture. We’d rather describe a Tuesday. You show up, you pull on your Elmstead shirt, and you walk into someone’s home. You put shoe covers on before you cross the threshold. Drop cloths go down before a tool comes out of the bag. The homeowner knows your name before the job starts because someone called ahead. At the end of the day, you take a photo of the space before you leave – not because someone’s watching, but because that’s the standard. That’s what working here actually looks like. If that’s the kind of crew you want to be part of, keep reading.
Who We’re Looking For
- Bathroom Remodeling Technician: Someone who takes tile layout personally and doesn’t cut corners around fixtures because nobody will see them.
- Kitchen Installer: A person who can read cabinet specs, hang uppers level on the first try, and treat a KraftMaid or Wellborn box like it cost what it cost.
- General Contractor / Site Lead: An experienced builder who can run a job, talk to a homeowner honestly, and keep three moving parts organized without losing the thread.
- Apprentice / Trade Assistant: Someone new to the trades who is teachable, shows up on time, and wants to learn the right way to do things – not just the fast way.
- Project Coordinator / Dispatcher: A detail-minded person who can track job schedules, confirm crew arrivals, and keep homeowners informed without them having to call twice.
- Customer Service Representative: Someone who picks up the phone with patience, can explain a written quote clearly, and understands that the person on the other end is trusting us inside their home.
What We Offer
Real Training and a Path Forward
We don’t hand you a manual and leave you to it. From your first week, you’re working alongside experienced crew members who know how we run a job and why we run it that way. Apprentices who stay and grow move into lead roles – and leads who earn it move into site management. The path is real because the work is real.
Work You Can Be Proud Of
The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every completed project. That’s not a marketing line – it’s a commitment that shapes how we work on the front end, because making something right six months later costs everyone time. When you finish a bathroom or a kitchen with Elmstead, the standard is high enough that you can drive past that house a year later and not wonder about it.
Local Crew, National Backing
Each Elmstead location is independently owned and operated, which means you’re part of a local team that knows its market. You’re also part of the Cedarwell family, which means you have access to supplier relationships, training frameworks, and material partners – like Cambria countertops, Kohler and Grohe fixtures, and James Hardie exteriors – that most independent shops can’t offer their crews. You get both: the small-crew feel and the national-brand weight behind the work.
Steady, Meaningful Demand
Homeowners remodel kitchens and bathrooms whether the economy is up or sideways. Elmstead has been doing this work since 2005, and the pipeline stays consistent because the reputation holds. A crew that works to the Cedarwell Care Promise – written price upfront, clean site at the end, phone answered by a live person – keeps getting called back. That consistency matters when you’re planning your own life around a job.
No Experience? Read This.
If you’ve spent years working with your hands – on cars, on furniture, on houses you owned, in a warehouse, in a shop – more of that transfers than you think. Spatial reasoning, attention to tolerances, the habit of checking your work before you call something done: those aren’t trade-specific, and we can see them pretty quickly when we talk.
What we teach is the Elmstead way of running a job: the Cedarwell Care Promise, our C.A.R.E. values – Clean up like it’s our own home, Ask before moving anything, Respect the family’s quiet hours, Explain the price before the work – and the technical steps for whatever role you’re moving into. Your first months are structured. You’re shadowing, you’re asking questions, and you’re building the habits that make a good technician. We’d rather train someone who cares than inherit someone who’s been doing it wrong for ten years.
How to Apply
Call us at (949) 850-9896 – a live person picks up, seven days a week – or use the application form below. When you reach out, let us know where you’re based, what you’ve worked on (even if it’s outside the trades), and when you’re available to start. Hiring happens locally through the Elmstead location nearest you, so the more specific you are about your area, the faster we can connect you with the right team.
Written by Graham Stein, Owner at Elmstead Remodeling, serving homeowners and building crews since 2005.
