Habitat Kansas City has a full-time construction staff of six.  Our construction manager, Jeff Tucker, has a background in residential construction and provides the long-term direction for our building projects while directing the rest of the department's staff.  Our construction supervisors, Duane Tyson, Damon Canada, Darla & Orkie Bradley, oversee the day to day building progress on their sites.  Each supervisor is responsible for a particular project and will see that house through from beginning to end.  The operations manager, Ken Wallace, attends to logistics and other issues (materials, inspections, etc.) that keep the building process on schedule.

Along with full time staff, Habitat KC has several AmeriCorps members who are serving with our organization September - July.  A staff or AmeriCorps member is always on site to help with logistics, volunteer managment and general instruction. Our team is highly qualified and sensitive to volunteer needs.

During a typical Habitat build, volunteers are employed to do many facets of the construction process.  Volunteers, both skilled and unskilled, help place I-joists and decking for floors, frame the exterior and interior walls, build stair cases, assist with roofing, install windows and doors, do much of the siding and sheet rocking, install soffit under the eves, insulate the walls and attic, lay ceramic tile, do most of the painting and finish work, landscape and occasionally help with concrete work.

Foundations, plumbing, roofing, HVAC, electricity and concrete finish work are the areas most often sub-contracted, but Habitat KC welcomes any volunteers skilled in these areas to contact our office if they have time to lend us their unique talents