Careers
This is not a daily-drive job. Here is what it actually is.
Almost nobody in construction publishes the rotation, the per diem or the lodging policy. You find out in an interview, or in your second week. We think that is the wrong way round, so this page exists — and it will carry the real numbers the moment they are signed off.
The terms
Every one of these will be a number on this page. Where a value is missing today it is because it has not been signed off — not because we are keeping it back until you are in an interview.
Why the numbers are not on this page yet
Because publishing a travel policy means committing to one, and a travel policy has to be right on wage-and-hour treatment of travel time and on the tax treatment of per diem before it is right on anything else. Getting either wrong costs the people doing the work — not the company writing the page.
So the structure is here and the numbers follow when they are signed off. If you are deciding whether to apply, call and ask — you will get the current answer from a person rather than a blank.
A reference point, so you can judge an offer
$110 + $68 = $178
GSA standard CONUS per diem, FY2026 — lodging plus meals and incidentals, per day
That is the federal government’s standard rate, not ours. We are publishing it because it is the number you should be measuring any construction travel offer against, including one from us, and because almost nobody in this industry will tell you it exists.
A per diem well below that figure means you are subsidising your employer’s travel programme out of your own wages. That is worth knowing before you accept a job, wherever the job is from.
A typical week
Monday — travel or start
On a new deployment you travel to the community and get set up. On a running programme you are on site.
Tuesday to Thursday — the work
One scope, repeated across homes. A floor crew does floors. You get properly good at something instead of doing a different trade every day.
Friday — finish and close out
Punch, photographs, site clean. The community is somebody's home and it looks like it when we leave.
Evenings
You are near the community, not commuting. Lodging is arranged and paid for by us — you are not fronting a hotel bill.
A typical deployment
A deployment is a programme in one community — a group of units, sometimes a whole park. The crew goes out together, stays near the community, and works it until it is finished.
That is genuinely different from local construction. There is no commute, you work with the same people every day, and the work is repetitive in the way that makes you fast rather than the way that makes you bored.
It also means you are away from home. That is the trade, it is the whole trade, and anyone who tells you otherwise is recruiting rather than explaining.
How often you get home is the question every road worker asks first. Our policy publishes here when it is signed off — and until then, ask us on the phone and you will get a straight answer.
What is provided
| Personal protective equipment | Issued, not expected. Hard hat, eye protection, gloves, high-visibility. Replaced as a consumable. |
|---|---|
| Hand tools | Provided. |
| Vehicle | Company vehicle from the yard and while deployed. Not your truck and your fuel. |
| Lodging | Arranged and paid by NRBS, not reimbursed after the fact. |
| Boots | Bring your own — everyone has an opinion and it should be yours. |
| Clothing | Bring for the weather where the community is, not where Houston is. |
Common questions
Recruitment fraud notice
People impersonate construction companies to defraud job seekers. It is common, it works because our industry hires quickly and informally, and it costs people money they cannot spare.
NR Building Solutions will never, under any circumstances:
- Ask you to pay for anything — training, equipment, a background check, or a uniform
- Ask for your bank details, card number or Social Security number before an offer
- Send you a cheque and ask you to forward part of it anywhere
- Make you an offer without a conversation with a real person at NRBS
- Conduct hiring entirely over a messaging app
Every genuine offer from us follows a conversation with someone at NRBS whose name you know. If something you have received does not match that, it did not come from us — call (713) 923-0835 and we will tell you straight away.