OSE Recruiting

Job Types

• Local - on-site and Factore-based production
• Remote - addresses distributed production: make modules, ship to our facility via trailer load ($500 for 250 mile distance)).

Tracks

• Trade school - you pay, and this anables you to work in any trade, 1-2 year apprenticeship period, come out at $48k out of $36k average. We invite you to work with us if you are interested in growth track. Earn as much as a 10 year master carpenter in 2 years. For those who don't want to spend the excessive time jumping through the hoops, and who are interested in continuing learning and advancement opportunities. Promise: successful completion gets you to the pay scale of 10 year experience - in 2 years or less if you focus more. The promise is: after 2 years, you will be on a team that builds 10x faster than any construction company, at 3 weeks per house instead of 30 weeks mi
• Construction Apprenticeship Work - this is the brutal path, but also has growth opportunity. Full time 40 hr. Competitive pay based on skill, at or above market rate.
• GI Bill Apprenticeship - more requirements from OSE. On the job training, subsidized by the government. Added learning:
• Movement Entrepreneurship Track - not your regular enterprise, but integrated, collaborative, transformative enterprise. 2 year. Learn integrated design and build, first year you learn an area of your choice, second year you develop a product related to the Seed Eco-Home related to an integrated enterprise (machines, materials, built modules, Swarm Build product, house designer product, etc)
• Mentorship - This focuses on developing a mindset of unlimited opportunity, built around the capacity to build things openly and collaboratively. Requirement is that you are building a business, and you would like to contribute your enterprise into an open source Seed Eco-Home ecosystem.

Candidate Clarity

• 18-26 YO though negotiable, open to new possibilities, growth mindset, farmer work ethic, fundamental interest in doing great work. Ideally, seeking immortality.
• High performance (can build) high trust is ideal.
• Builders for 100% effort. Do carpenters work 40 hour weeks? Yes [1]. See industry standard work conditions [2]
• Select for farmer work ethic.
• Select for people who ideally want an accelerated learning track (functional proficiency in 17 Trades compared to a single trade in the same time in a regular pathway)

Economic Case

• $50k/year average for master carpenter after 10 years of time [3]
  • How does this match BLS, which says mean is $60k carpenters and 66k for MEP? [4]? Mean is higher by $10k - a conspicuously substantial difference.
  • Here average carpenter is $48k at BLS [5]
• Average trade school costs $33k and earning after is $36k. Associate Degree in carpentry (2 year) is typically $4-20k.
  • $12500 for associate degree in carpentry, Minnesota [6]
  • $6600 Montana, $13k at MATC Wisconsin.

Links

• OSE_Recruiting_Strategy
• SEH Recruiting - May 2023 start. To apply, ship us a module.
• SEH_4_Recruiting - from December 2022 Extreme Build
• High School Recruiting - intitial notes, subsumed by Good to Great
• Recruiting 100 People in 180 Days - example of extreme recruiting push