Bio
Northern Tier Builders was founded based on three core beliefs. Efficacy, communication and value. We recognize, your home, is a private space, and do our very best to respect that throughout the building or remodeling process.
As formerly educated mechanical engineers we look at homebuilding and improvement from a different perspective. Early on in our apprenticeship in the building trades, we discovered that the difference between a wonderful and awful building experience was communication. When forming NTB we vowed to make communication a priority. Based on the size and scope of the project, we set up a communication schedule to keep clients in the loop. From understanding how weather conditions on site are impacting progress, to paint color selections, we require our customers to be engaged in their project.
NTB was founded in order to execute construction services at a higher level than our competition. Your new home should echo your personality; our goal is to walk away from every project knowing we helped shape your vision into reality. To provide the highest possible value and execution, we partner with highly talented subcontractors, whom are masters of their trades. Through thoughtful material selection and better building practices, NTB strives to put the best, safest and healthiest products in your next build.
Jeff Schade (Owner)
Growing up in northern Minnesota, from a young age I was shown how to work with tools. From tree forts to boat docks, outhouses to saunas, I was given the freedom and guidance to take on lofty building projects. Formally educated as a mechanical engineer, I began my career designing drill rigs. Although the work was challenging and rewarding, I felt the calling to work with my hands again vs. working mainly behind a computer. I made the call to switch career paths and set out across the country to learn the trades from within.
My first taste of homebuilding came while working with a high-end custom builder in Iowa. I was hooked from the first day on the job. From there, I quickly worked my way up the ranks on a framing crew in New Hampshire. Grasping those concepts, I worked under a remodeling contractor in Massachusetts. That led to becoming a custom timber frame homebuilder, and timber frame instructor in Maine, working with the Shelter Institute. While I loved everyone that mentored me along the way, the entrepreneurial spirit persisted. Finally, after years of building my skills and confidence, life and love brought me back to Utah where Northern Tier Builders was born.