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Work where the wood is

Five roles, all in Portland, all involving weather. We train the grading eye, we pay for boots, and we do not have a phone line for you to answer.

Warehouse aisle lined with stacked recycled pallets beside a painted floor line
Grading line, bay 2

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Put the role title in Product type, '1' in Quantity, and your experience in the message. It reaches a human the same day.

Portland, OR · email only, no phone

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Open roles

Five jobs, no job titles with 'ninja' in them

  • Pallet grader

    Full time · Portland yard

    Flip, sound and chalk-mark inbound stock against our published standard. The skill takes about a month to acquire and cannot be automated at our scale.

    • Comfortable outdoors year-round
    • Able to lift 50 lb repeatedly
    • Forklift certification helpful, not required
    • We train the grading eye
  • Repair bay technician

    Full time · Portland yard

    Companion stringers, deck replacement, squaring jigs and helical nail guns. The most skilled production role in the building.

    • Hand-tool and pneumatic experience
    • Able to read a steel square
    • Attention to a quarter inch
    • Carpentry background welcome
  • Class A driver

    Full time · PNW routes

    Flatbed and curtain-sider work on standing routes. Named-driver relationships with customers, home most nights.

    • Class A CDL, clean record
    • Flatbed securement experience
    • Comfortable with dock and yard variability
    • Two years minimum
  • Fabrication shop carpenter

    Full time · Portland yard

    Crates, skids, collars and upcycled fixtures built from reclaimed stock. Prototype work, load testing, and the occasional printing press.

    • Joinery and sheet-goods experience
    • Able to work from a drawing or a photo
    • Finish work a bonus
    • Problem-solving temperament
  • Logistics coordinator

    Full time · Portland office

    Route planning, paired loads, customer scheduling and written quoting. If you like puzzles with trucks in them, this is the job.

    • Scheduling or dispatch experience
    • Clear written English
    • Comfort with spreadsheets
    • Patience on peak weeks

What it is like

Honest working conditions

Hours
Mon–Thu 6:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Fri to 3:00 PM. Saturday mornings rotate.
Weather
Outdoors, year-round. It rains here from November to March, properly.
Physical
Repeated lifting to 50 lb. The job is physical and the crew is small.
Pay
Stated in the first reply, in writing, with the range — never 'competitive'.
Training
We teach grading, securement and treatment compliance. Nobody arrives knowing it.
Boots
We pay for them. Hi-vis provided. Kettle always on in winter.

Applications go to hello@palletlinker.com or through the form above. No cover letter required; tell us what you have built or fixed.

  • 01

    Published specifications

    Grade definitions, dimensional tolerances and racked load ratings in writing. Most yards will not publish a racked figure at all.

  • 02

    Hand graded, four-hour triage

    Two graders per line, flipped and sounded. Every inbound load is triaged within four working hours so nothing rots in a mystery pile.

  • 03

    Zero landfill, measured

    Weighed in, weighed out, reconciled monthly. Zero pounds landfilled in 2025, with a certificate you can hand to an auditor.

  • 04

    Everything in writing

    No phone line by choice. Every price, date and commitment lives in an email you can search, forward and hold us to.

  • 05

    Repair before replacement

    A repair bay, a kiln, a de-nailer and a grinder on site. Repairing a pallet avoids roughly 11 kg CO₂e and costs you half of new.

  • 06

    Traceable by stamp

    Every unit carries a Pallet Passport ID burned into a stringer. Type it in and read its species, cycles, repairs and carbon ledger.

  • 14kpallets graded monthlytwo hand-grading lines
  • 1,100heat treated per dayISPM-15, chart recorded
  • 4.1M lbwood diverted last year68% reused whole
  • 0 lblandfilled in 2025weighed and reconciled

Next step

Tell us what you can build or fix

That is the whole application. Experience helps; temperament matters more.

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