Careers
6 roles open across 4 jobs. The pay band is published on every one of them, because a job advert that will not say what it pays is wasting both our time.
We are a family-owned company of 34 people working in 11 crews. Nobody here is on commission, including the technicians, and that is a deliberate decision rather than an oversight.
- HVACFull time2 positions
HVAC Service Technician
A residential service technician who diagnoses properly, writes it down, and can explain a repair to a homeowner without jargon.
- Pay band
- $58,000 to $82,000 per year
- Based
- Morrisville yard, working across the Triangle
- Experience
- 3 years or more
- Posted
The job
You run service calls out of a van you take home, mostly repairs and maintenance across Wake and Durham counties, with occasional installation support. Three crews, and Dana Whitfield runs them.
We measure on maintenance visits rather than cleaning and leaving, so you will be taking static pressure, superheat and subcooling readings on every visit and writing them into a report the customer actually receives. If that sounds like unnecessary work, this is not the right shop.
What we pay
$58,000 to $82,000 depending on experience and certification, plus the after-hours rota. Van, fuel, tools beyond your hand tools, uniforms, and paid time for training and certification renewal.
What we will not ask you to do
Sell. There is no commission on this job and there is no target for replacement systems. The reason is on the AC repair page: we publish our prices and our diagnostic process, and a technician on commission cannot be trusted to tell a customer their system has three summers left in it.
How to apply
Email or ring the office. Ask for Lena. Details are on the contact page.
What the job involves
- Diagnose and repair residential HVAC systems, and write up what you found
- Carry out maintenance visits to our published checklist, including the measurements
- Quote repair work at the door and explain it in plain language
- Say no to work that is not right, including work we would be paid for
What you need
- EPA 608 certification, any type
- At least three years diagnosing residential cooling and heating systems
- A valid NC driver licence and a clean record, because you take a van home
- Willingness to take a share of the after-hours emergency rota
- CARPFull time1 position
Lead Carpenter
A finish carpenter who can build in the shop, fit on site, and teach an apprentice while doing both.
- Pay band
- $62,000 to $88,000 per year
- Based
- Shop in Morrisville, site work across the Triangle
- Experience
- 8 years or more
- Posted
The job
Half shop, half site. We make our cabinetry and built-ins in our own shop rather than ordering them in, and the person who makes them installs them.
Walt Hendricks leads the carpentry crew and has been in the trade since the late 1970s. This role works alongside him and is expected to take on more of the older-house work over time: plaster walls, falling floors, trim profiles that have not been milled in seventy years.
What we pay
$62,000 to $88,000 depending on what you can actually do, which we will find out in a paid working day rather than from a CV.
What the work is like
Slower than most shops, because scribing to a wall takes longer than caulking to it, and we do not price the fast version. Our 1938 kitchen in Hayes Barton is a fair sample of the standard.
How to apply
Bring photographs of your own work. Email the office, on the contact page.
What the job involves
- Build cabinetry and built-ins in our shop, and install them on site
- Run trim, doors, stairs and restoration work on older Triangle houses
- Train the two apprentices, which is part of the job rather than a favour
- Set out the work so the finished job needs no caulk to hide a gap
What you need
- At least eight years in finish carpentry, including cabinetry
- Able to scribe and fit in houses where nothing is square
- Comfortable running a small crew and talking to a homeowner daily
- Own hand tools; everything else is ours
- ROOFFull time2 positions
Roofing Crew Member
An entry level roofing role with paid training, run bilingually, on crews that harness up every time.
- Pay band
- $22 to $34 per hour
- Based
- Morrisville yard, working across the Triangle
- Experience
- None required, we train
- Posted
The job
Tear off, decking repair, dry in, shingles, flashing. Two crews, led by Tomás Reyes.
No experience needed. What we cannot train is turning up, and working safely without being watched.
What we pay
$22 to $34 an hour depending on experience, reviewed after ninety days. Overtime in storm season is real and it is paid.
Safety, since this is a roofing job
Harnesses and anchors on every pitched roof, every time, without exception and without discussion. Water and shade breaks on the schedule rather than on request in July. Both crew leads hold OSHA 30 and are fall protection competent persons.
We do not work roofs in electrical storms or on ice. The Chapel Hill ice storm call is a fair example: the crew stabilised it from a ladder at the eave and came back when the ice cleared.
How to apply
Ring the office or come to the yard. Details on the contact page.
What the job involves
- Tear off, dry in and install shingle roofs as part of a crew
- Keep the site clean through the day rather than at the end of it
- Wear and anchor fall protection every time, without being asked
- Learn flashing detail work, which is where the trade actually is
What you need
- No roofing experience required; we train
- Comfortable working at height, in harness, in summer heat
- Reliable transport to the Morrisville yard for a start before the heat of the day
- English or Spanish; both crews run bilingually
- Full time1 position
Dispatch Coordinator
The second person on the dispatch board, triaging calls against published criteria and keeping arrival windows honest.
- Pay band
- $48,000 to $62,000 per year
- Based
- Morrisville office
- Experience
- 2 years or more
- Posted
The job
You work alongside Curtis Boyd on the dispatch board. Between you, you decide who goes where and in what order across seven trades.
Most of the job is triage. What counts as an emergency here is published on the emergency page and it is a real boundary: HVAC failures, active roof leaks, water, sewage, gas and lost power are covered, and remodelling, cabinetry and lawn work never are. Applying that consistently at eleven at night, to somebody who is upset, is the skill this job is actually testing for.
What we pay
$48,000 to $62,000 depending on experience, plus the weekend rota.
The one non-negotiable
If a caller reports a gas smell, or water actively coming through a finished ceiling, it goes to a person immediately. Not into a queue, not into a callback list. That rule is written down and it is the rule we hire against.
How to apply
Email the office. Details are on the contact page.
What the job involves
- Book, sequence and re-sequence work across seven trades
- Triage incoming calls against our published emergency criteria
- Call customers before a window closes when a crew is running late
- Escalate to a person the moment a call meets an escalation rule
What you need
- Two years in dispatch, scheduling, or a call centre where decisions mattered
- Able to say no to a customer clearly and kindly, and to hold the line
- Comfortable with a schedule that changes several times a day
- Some share of the weekend rota
How to apply
Email hello@cedarlinehome.com with the job title in the subject line, or ring the office on +1-919-555-0142 and ask for Lena. A CV is welcome and photographs of your work are better.
If none of these is you but you are in the trade, write anyway. We hire ahead of need more often than we advertise. The people you would be working with are all on one page.