General Manager

Mainerafting; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + profit sharing

Company vehicle

2 weeks PTO

Job summary

Mainerafting is seeking a General Manager for a Crawlspace Medic franchise in Portland, Maine. This unique role offers the potential for ownership and requires strong leadership skills, operational excellence, and a commitment to achieving measurable business outcomes.

The successful candidate will run daily operations, develop a high-performing team, and drive growth through a proven playbook. Attractive benefits include performance-based compensation and the opportunity for profit sharing.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of leading teams to measurable outcomes.
• Experience in building/enforcing standard operating procedures.
• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain strong people.

Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day operations of a Crawlspace Medic franchise.
• Set and execute local growth strategy.
• Own P&L performance and KPIs.

Skills

Leadership

Team development

Sales and marketing understanding

Process-driven execution

Growth metrics tracking

Accountability for results

Job description

This role is designed to move you toward ownership of a real, profitable business in one of the most recession-resistant segments of the home service industry.

Who This Is For

You’ve led teams, managed operations, and driven results. But you’ve hit a ceiling. You’re executing someone else’s vision and you know you’re capable of more.

You want skin in the game. This role is for the leader who is done being managed and ready to build something that’s actually theirs. You don’t need capital on day one—you need the discipline, the drive, and the leadership track record to earn your way into ownership.

If you’re looking for a job to collect a paycheck and follow a checklist, this isn’t it. If you’re looking for a vehicle to build something meaningful under a proven system—with a clear path to owning it—keep reading.

The Role

As General Manager, you will run the day-to-day operations of a Crawlspace Medic franchise location—accountable for the full business: people, performance, and profit. You’ll operate within a proven playbook, but you’ll own the outcomes.

• Setting and executing local growth strategy
• Building, developing, and retaining a high-performing field team
• Owning P&L performance, KPIs, and unit economics
• Holding people to clear standards
• Driving system-based execution with consistency and discipline
• Representing the Crawlspace Medic brand with integrity in your market

The Ownership Path

This role is structured with a specific outcome in mind: you operate the business, grow it, and buy into ownership. An investor funds the franchise. You run it. As the business performs, you have the opportunity to buy out your investor and become the franchisee. This is the model—and we have 35 operational units to prove it.

Requirements

• A demonstrated track record of leading teams to measurable outcomes in a process-driven, labor-intensive environment
• Experience building or enforcing standard operating procedures—not just following them when convenient
• A proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain strong people
• The discipline to have hard conversations early, not late
• An understanding of sales, marketing, and capacity planning at the unit level
• A history of driving growth in key performance metrics
• Comfort being held fully accountable for results
• Openness to feedback and a hunger for improvement over validation
• The grit to operate under pressure without losing focus

Benefits

• Full-time W-2, salary exempt
• Performance-based compensation: base salary + profit sharing (no cap)
• Company vehicle
• 2 weeks PTO
• On-the-job training, development, and leadership transformation

What To Expect

• Year 1 = $85k
• Year 2 = $100-110k
• Year 3 = $125-135k