Role design and job descriptions for Kitchen Cabinet Makers: measurer, designer, coordinator and installer
A kitchen passes through a designer, a measurer, the factory and an installer. Written roles show who owns each step and stop one wrong measurement costing a week.
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The designer takes the brief, the measurer visits the site, the factory cuts and the installer fits. When roles are loose, a measurement is taken without checking pipes and points, the drawing is approved on trust, and the error shows only at fitting. Nobody owns the kitchen from end to end, so the customer calls the showroom, the factory and the installer in turn.
Good looks like a card for each post: the measurer follows a site sheet and signs it, the designer checks it before release, a coordinator owns dates and customer contact, and the installer knows what he may adjust on site and what he must call about. Each person knows where their step ends.
How to set it up
1. Write the measurer's card
Include the site sheet items, walls, pipes, points, levels, and who reviews the measurement before the drawing is released.
2. Write the designer's card
Cover brief, drawing, customer approval and the check against the site sheet. Keep it on one sheet where the supervisor can reach it.
3. Create the coordinator role
One person owns the kitchen's dates across drawing, production, countertop and fitting, and speaks to the customer.
4. Define the installer's limits
State what may be adjusted on site, what needs a call, and conduct in a customer's home. Go over it with the people who do the work, and note what they change.
5. Keep each card to a page
Purpose, tasks, decisions and reporting. See role design and job descriptions.
Check these first
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These take an afternoon and use your own records.
- Count how many kitchens were remade or corrected last quarter because of a measurement error.
- Look at who owns each open kitchen from drawing to fitting.
- Ask your installers what they may change on site without a call.
- Check if the measurement sheet is signed and reviewed before release.
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Questions owners ask
One coordinator who tracks every date and is the single voice to the customer. In small units this may be the showroom manager, with a clear handover to the factory.
For small fits, yes, within written limits. Bigger changes need a call to the coordinator, so the factory and the customer both know.
One page is plenty. Short cards are read and kept up to date, and they can be used to brief a new joiner. We would look at your own records first and keep the steps small.