Cabinetry Manager

For more than 44 years, Ackard Contractors has built a reputation as one of Edmonton’s established, award-winning residential renovation companies. Behind every beautifully finished project is a team of skilled people who care about quality, communication, and getting the details right.

We’re looking for an experienced Cabinetry Manager to lead our Cabinetry Department from production planning through installation. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a talented department, strengthen the connection between the cabinet shop and field, and help shape how custom cabinetry is planned, produced, installed, and continuously improved.

If you’re an experienced cabinetry professional who can see the big picture, anticipate what’s coming, and lead people with clarity and accountability, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

As Ackard’s Cabinetry Manager, you’ll be accountable for the Cabinetry Department’s overall performance, including safety, quality, scheduling, labour and material efficiency, equipment, financial results, and project outcomes.

You’ll lead through the Cabinetry Lead Hand and Cabinetry Installation Lead Hand, who oversee day-to-day shop and field execution. Your role will be to establish clear expectations, remove obstacles, coordinate resources, and ensure the department delivers high-quality work safely, efficiently, and on schedule.

Department Leadership and Scheduling

- Build and maintain a forward-looking production and installation schedule.
- Anticipate capacity needs, dependencies, potential obstacles, and schedule risks.
- Coordinate staffing, materials, site readiness, and shop-to-field handoffs with project stakeholders.




- Hold weekly production meetings to review completed work, lessons learned, upcoming priorities, responsibilities, and potential concerns.
- Ensure the department meets its commitments for safety, quality, schedule, labour, materials, and project outcomes.

Communication and Project Coordination

- Maintain regular communication with both Lead Hands to review progress, identify obstacles, and confirm next steps.
- Provide proactive updates to clients, designers, Site Supervisors, project leaders, and department staff regarding timing, status, changes, and decisions.
- Monitor installation progress, communicate with clients, and document commitments and follow-up in Buildertrend.
- Escalate damage, deficiencies, schedule risks, and scope concerns promptly.
- Review department Buildertrend records for completeness and accuracy.

Financial and Operational Oversight

- Review estimated versus actual labour, materials, schedules, and rework and address recurring concerns.
- Support accurate job costing and billing through timely completion information, documented changes, and approved timecards.
- Oversee inventory, purchasing controls, material availability, and supplier performance.
- Manage maintenance schedules, service records, repairs,



and the safe operating readiness of department equipment and machinery.
- Plan for future equipment, machinery, and facility needs and prepare recommendations for approval.

People Leadership

- Lead and develop the Cabinetry employees with transparent expectations, decision-making authority, and accountability.
- Ensure Lead Hands effectively provide daily direction, coaching, and workflow oversight to their teams.
- Work with HR on workforce planning, recruitment, hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, and employee development.
- Address escalated attendance, conduct, performance, and employee-relations concerns.
- Build a department culture grounded in craftsmanship, communication, teamwork, and accountability.

Quality, Safety and Continuous Improvement

- Establish department standards, checklists, and quality controls and regularly audit results.
- Oversee the resolution of escalated quality issues, damage, warranty concerns, and client concerns.
- Ensure tools, machinery, materials, and work areas are maintained and stored safely.
- Ensure safety requirements and PPE expectations are followed and that incidents and near misses are reported, investigated, and addressed.
- Use quality results, job-cost information, feedback, and lessons learned to improve workflow, training, equipment, and shop-to-field handoffs.
- Provide technical direction or hands-on support for complex cabinetry, furniture, finishing, manufacturing, or installation challenges when required.

What You Bring

You combine strong cabinetry knowledge with the communication, organization, and leadership skills needed to run a safe, reliable, and financia

📌 Cabinetry Manager (Edmonton)
🏢 Ackard Contractors
📍 Edmonton