Are you the carpenter other carpenters ask for help?
We're hiring a Master Restoration Carpenter, someone who's spent years building things right, and wants to put that skill into buildings worth saving and set the standard the rest of our crew learns from.
No historic window experience required if you've mastered an adjacent craft, we'll teach you the windows fast. What we can't teach is decades of judgment and a standard you won't lower.
About Double Hung
Double Hung was founded in 1997 for a stubborn reason: our founder, David Hoggard, was tired of watching well-built and doors get torn out and thrown away. Nearly thirty years later, we're one of the most trusted restoration partners to general contractors, homeowners, municipalities, and developers across the Southeast. From the Supreme Court of Virginia in Richmond to the Birth Home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Moses Cone Manor in Blowing Rock, university campuses across the Carolinas and Virginia, and neighborhoods throughout North Carolina, our work touches some of the most remarkable buildings still standing today.
Where You'll Work
You'll spend your weeks on buildings most people only photograph from the sidewalk, federal courthouses, national historic sites, churches and university halls that have already stood a century and were built to stand for another.
One week you're in a state capitol, the next you're in a small town whose courthouse is the proudest thing on the square. The work travels, a week or two at a time, with stretches at home in between. You're putting your hands on work that will outlast everyone who touches it.
Who You Are
A decade or more of serious craft, finish carpentry, joinery, cabinetry, architectural millwork, or historic restoration, at a level other carpenters noticeYou've run your own shop, your own jobs, or led crews, and you set the standardYou can take a project from drawings to finished install on your own, on time and on budgetYou know traditional joinery, doors, windows, glazing, and finishes.You want to teach. Building the next generation of craftspeople is something you'd take pride in, not just tolerate.Real experience across both residential and institutional/commercial restoration, and a clear understanding of how differently the two have to be runYou have a valid driver's license and a clean driving recordYou're comfortable being away from home for 2 weeks at a time, with local work and home stretches in betweenRRP/Lead-Safe Certified Renovator, OSHA 10/30, and prior federal, state, or institutional preservation work are pluses. Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
What You'll Earn
Why a Master Comes Here
You've probably spent years carrying a business on your back, or doing top work for someone who couldn't tell the difference. Here, the work is hard in the way you want it to be, the standard is high, and what you know gets passed on instead of lost. We promote from within, and the people who teach the next generation of craftspeople are the ones who shape the future of this company.
Do you want to learn a craft that almost nobody knows how to do anymore?
We're hiring Window Restoration Technicians to learn historic wood sash and door restoration, the kind of work that keeps 100-year-old buildings standing for another 100 years.
No historic window or door experience required.
What we're looking for is hands-on skill we can build on, attention to detail, and a willingness to travel for a week or two at a time to incredible historic sites across the Southeast.
About Double Hung
Double Hung was founded in 1997 for a stubborn reason: our founder, David Hoggard, was tired of watching well-built windows and doors get torn out and thrown away. Nearly thirty years later, we're one of the most trusted restoration partners to general contractors, homeowners, municipalities, and developers across the Southeast. From the Supreme Court of Virginia in Richmond to the Birth Home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Moses Cone Manor in Blowing Rock, university campuses across the Carolinas and Virginia, and neighborhoods throughout North Carolina, our work touches some of the most remarkable buildings still standing today.
Your Starting Pay Reflects What You Bring
- Hands-on skill in trim or finish carpentry, cabinetry/woodworking, or restoration/preservation: **$20–$22+/hour** to start. You won't have done historic windows before, almost nobody has, but these skills transfer directly, and we pay for them.
- Construction or manufacturing background, ready to learn the craft from the ground up: **$17–$18/hour** to start.
Either way, we train you fully in historic sash and door work, and your pay grows as your skills do.
A Day in the Life
Some weeks you're in our Greensboro shop, stripping lead paint off a 1920s sash, learning to consolidate rotted wood with epoxy, glazing pane after pane until you get it right. Other weeks you're on-site at a historic federal courthouse, removing original sash, repairing frames, and reinstalling them after our shop crew has brought them back to life.
You'll work with hand tools, power tools, respirators, and lead-safe practices, all of which we'll train you on. You'll travel for 1–2 weeks at a time, with regular stretches at home between projects.
You're not living on the road, you're visiting historic sites and helping bring them back to life.
Who You Are
- You bring real hands-on skill: trim/finish carpentry, woodworking, cabinetry, finishing, general construction, or manufacturing/fabrication
- You take pride in doing things the right way, even when nobody's watching
- You're reliable, you show up, and you work clean
- You can lift 50 lbs, climb a ladder, and stay on your feet through the day
- You have a valid driver's license and a clean driving record
- You're comfortable being away from home for 1–2 weeks at a time
- Any experience on residential or commercial/institutional job sites is a plus
- Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus, many of our crews and job sites benefit from it
What You'll Earn
- $17 – $22/hour to start, based on the skills and experience you bring.
- Company-paid lodging on every overnight travel project, plus a tax-free meal per diem
- Your EPA RRP Lead-Safe Certified Renovator credential, paid for by us
- Paid training
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off + paid holidays
- Retirement plan
- Tool reimbursement and purchase program
Where This Can Go
This is a craft you grow into, not a dead-end job.
The people who put in the work move from entry to skilled restoration craftsperson, training the next person and growing toward our senior and master roles. We build craftspeople, and we promote from within.
Are you the carpenter other carpenters ask for help?
We're hiring a Master Restoration Carpenter, someone who's spent years building things right, and wants to put that skill into buildings worth saving and set the standard the rest of our crew learns from.
No historic window experience required if you've mastered an adjacent craft, we'll teach you the windows fast. What we can't teach is decades of judgment and a standard you won't lower.
About Double Hung
Double Hung was founded in 1997 for a stubborn reason: our founder, David Hoggard, was tired of watching well-built and doors get torn out and thrown away. Nearly thirty years later, we're one of the most trusted restoration partners to general contractors, homeowners, municipalities, and developers across the Southeast. From the Supreme Court of Virginia in Richmond to the Birth Home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Moses Cone Manor in Blowing Rock, university campuses across the Carolinas and Virginia, and neighborhoods throughout North Carolina, our work touches some of the most remarkable buildings still standing today.
Where You'll Work
You'll spend your weeks on buildings most people only photograph from the sidewalk, federal courthouses, national historic sites, churches and university halls that have already stood a century and were built to stand for another.
One week you're in a state capitol, the next you're in a small town whose courthouse is the proudest thing on the square. The work travels, a week or two at a time, with stretches at home in between. You're putting your hands on work that will outlast everyone who touches it.
Who You Are
A decade or more of serious craft, finish carpentry, joinery, cabinetry, architectural millwork, or historic restoration, at a level other carpenters noticeYou've run your own shop, your own jobs, or led crews, and you set the standardYou can take a project from drawings to finished install on your own, on time and on budgetYou know traditional joinery, doors, windows, glazing, and finishes.You want to teach. Building the next generation of craftspeople is something you'd take pride in, not just tolerate.Real experience across both residential and institutional/commercial restoration, and a clear understanding of how differently the two have to be runYou have a valid driver's license and a clean driving recordYou're comfortable being away from home for 2 weeks at a time, with local work and home stretches in betweenRRP/Lead-Safe Certified Renovator, OSHA 10/30, and prior federal, state, or institutional preservation work are pluses. Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
What You'll Earn
Why a Master Comes Here
You've probably spent years carrying a business on your back, or doing top work for someone who couldn't tell the difference. Here, the work is hard in the way you want it to be, the standard is high, and what you know gets passed on instead of lost. We promote from within, and the people who teach the next generation of craftspeople are the ones who shape the future of this company.
Are you the carpenter other carpenters ask for help?
We're hiring a Master Restoration Carpenter, someone who's spent years building things right, and wants to put that skill into buildings worth saving and set the standard the rest of our crew learns from.
No historic window experience required if you've mastered an adjacent craft, we'll teach you the windows fast. What we can't teach is decades of judgment and a standard you won't lower.
About Double Hung
Double Hung was founded in 1997 for a stubborn reason: our founder, David Hoggard, was tired of watching well-built and doors get torn out and thrown away. Nearly thirty years later, we're one of the most trusted restoration partners to general contractors, homeowners, municipalities, and developers across the Southeast. From the Supreme Court of Virginia in Richmond to the Birth Home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Moses Cone Manor in Blowing Rock, university campuses across the Carolinas and Virginia, and neighborhoods throughout North Carolina, our work touches some of the most remarkable buildings still standing today.
Where You'll Work
You'll spend your weeks on buildings most people only photograph from the sidewalk, federal courthouses, national historic sites, churches and university halls that have already stood a century and were built to stand for another.
One week you're in a state capitol, the next you're in a small town whose courthouse is the proudest thing on the square. The work travels, a week or two at a time, with stretches at home in between. You're putting your hands on work that will outlast everyone who touches it.
Who You Are
A decade or more of serious craft, finish carpentry, joinery, cabinetry, architectural millwork, or historic restoration, at a level other carpenters noticeYou've run your own shop, your own jobs, or led crews, and you set the standardYou can take a project from drawings to finished install on your own, on time and on budgetYou know traditional joinery, doors, windows, glazing, and finishes.You want to teach. Building the next generation of craftspeople is something you'd take pride in, not just tolerate.Real experience across both residential and institutional/commercial restoration, and a clear understanding of how differently the two have to be runYou have a valid driver's license and a clean driving recordYou're comfortable being away from home for 2 weeks at a time, with local work and home stretches in betweenRRP/Lead-Safe Certified Renovator, OSHA 10/30, and prior federal, state, or institutional preservation work are pluses. Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
What You'll Earn
Why a Master Comes Here
You've probably spent years carrying a business on your back, or doing top work for someone who couldn't tell the difference. Here, the work is hard in the way you want it to be, the standard is high, and what you know gets passed on instead of lost. We promote from within, and the people who teach the next generation of craftspeople are the ones who shape the future of this company.
Before you read on: this role starts fully onsite at our Greensboro shop for roughly the first 3-4 months, then moves to a hybrid/remote arrangement based in Charlotte, with real potential to grow into our person on the ground there. If you can commit to that build-out phase, the rest of this was written for you. If a Greensboro commute during those months isn't something you can do, this isn't the right fit.
For nearly 30 years, Double Hung has done what most of the industry says can't be done: we restore historic wood and steel windows and doors that others would tear out and throw away. Our founding belief is simple, don't replace, repair. What looks "beyond repair" to someone else is, to us, just ready for repair.
From our 20,000 sq ft shop in Greensboro, our craftspeople restore pre-1955 windows and doors for homeowners, institutions, and federal landmarks across the Carolinas, Virginia, and the Southeast.
The work is exacting. The clients are discerning. And the craft deserves to be seen.
We're very good at the work.
Where we're ready to get great is in how we receive, guide, and care for the people who hire us and that's the role we're hiring for. The role in one sentence
You are the front door of Double Hung, the person who makes sure no inquiry, no client, and no opportunity falls through the cracks again.
Today, leads reach us a many ways, phone, text, web form, referral, a tangle of inboxes with no single funnel and no consistent system.
Too many clients have to reach out, too many times. That ends with this role.
You'll own the path from a customer's first hello through execution of service and beyond and you'll be the connective tissue between the craft on our floor, our sites and the brand the world sees.
What you'll own
Be the quarterback of every lead. Capture every inbound inquiry across every channel into one clean, well-maintained system of record. Triage by priority and personally drive follow-up so clients feel pursued, not forgotten.Make follow-up relentless. Build and run the cadences that mean clients hear back fast and never chase us. Speed-to-response is the number this role lives by.Shepherd the full client journey. Stay with the customer from first contact through estimate, project, and into service, warranty, and ongoing maintenance. Protecting the relationship and the recurring revenue that comes from clients who feel genuinely cared for.Build the system of record. Run a disciplined, AI-assisted system now and help us consolidate onto our long-term platform. Retiring tools that no longer serve us or our clients. You need the instinct to build clean process and the discipline to keep it clean.Connect the craft to the brand. Orchestrate a steady content rhythm that shows off our craftspeople and their work, coordinating a schedule and sparking friendly internal challenges that get the crews proud to show what they do (with intern support as we grow). Content coordination is part of how we grow, not the deliverable this role rises or falls on. You don't have to be the photographer; you help make it happen on a cadence.
The first 90 days, an honest picture
Month one is roughly 80% triage and system discipline.
Before anything else, the front door has to stop leaking: one place where every lead lives, a follow-up rhythm clients can feel, and a system the rest of us can trust.
By months two and three, as the front door steadies, the work broadens, tightening the system of record, taking real ownership of the client journey and starting the content rhythm.
The triage discipline never disappears; it becomes the foundation everything else is built on.
If bringing order to a messy, high-volume front door energizes you, you'll thrive.
If you need a finished machine handed to you on day one, this isn't your role.
This role will grow for the person who truly takes hold of our front door and sales pipeline, there's a real path to expanded scope as Double Hung grows.
Who you are
You've run a customer funnel before and owned that flow in a real CRM. (CRM experience required.)You've delivered high-touch service to discerning clients whether in high-end residential real estate, hospitality, architecture, custom home building, luxury retail, or a similar world. You know what it takes to make a high-value customer feel seen and well cared for on the phone, over email, and in person.You're a natural bridge between craftspeople and clients, able to translate skilled hands-on work into language and care that high-end customers value.Nothing falls through. You're organized to the point of being a little relentless about it. Follow-up is a reflex, not a chore.You're comfortable with modern tools and AI and can keep a system of record clean and disciplined.
Bonus (not required)
Background or familiarity with construction, the trades, or skilled craft work.Ability to create content yourself (writing, photo/video, basic design), though coordinating great content counts just as much.Experience standing up or migrating a CRM / system of record.What we offer
A high-trust, high-ownership role where you're the architect of something, not a cog.A mission-driven company with nearly 30 years of craft and a landmark portfolio to be proud of.Direct line to ownership and real influence over how we grow and shape our future.Compensation: $58,000–$72,000 base, set to experience.Benefits: Health, Dental, and Vision insurance; 401(k) with 4% company match; paid company holidays and PTO. Paid training.
Full-time · Onsite in Greensboro during build-out, then hybrid/remote (Charlotte-based)
To apply: tell us why bringing order and care to our front door is the kind of work you want to own. Thoughtful answers to the screening questions move to the top of our list.
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