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U.S. Built Custom Bicycles in Titanium and Titanium-Carbon Mix

Seven Cycles Custom Framebuilder

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Do you daydream about building bike frames? Do you like making stuff and getting your hands dirty? Do you think about starting your own framebuilding company someday? Have you built a bike frame and can't stop thinking about doing it again? If you said yes to some of these, being a framebuilder at Seven may be your perfect job.

It's not all rainbows and cotton candy, though. It's not an easy job. You're on your feet all day. You're doing detailed, precise work. You may be dirty at the end of the day. Your hands will get calloused over time. You have the pressure of delivering a bike frame for a customer that expects perfection. If these challenges have you smiling and excited, you should definitely read the job description and apply for our framebuilder job.

Framebuilders at Seven quickly become some of the best fabricators in the world. Within three years, you will have built more custom frames than most builders craft in a lifetime. Your framebuilding value will be second to none.

You work with the most experienced team in the industry. You'll learn from a builder mentor team with more than 150 years of combined framebuilding experience. Your learning opportunity is unlike any other in the industry.


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Framebuilder Role Summary

Seven's framebuilder job is to take raw materials of titanium and carbon fiber and transform them into something that changes lives: A perfect handmade frame made for one specific person. There are very few jobs on the planet that can have such a positive impact on another person. It may sound rather highfalutin, but we've heard from riders again and again that it's true; the right bike can change a life. This is our mission. As a Seven framebuilder, you literally bring that mission into the physical world.

You work with hand files, hand drills, and micrometers all day. We often use small, simple tools to do big complex things.

Every frameset we build begins as a blank slate. Each Seven bike is custom-designed for a specific rider. We don't build batches. You work on one bike at a time. You take the idea of the bike and make it real. You cut the tubing shape the tubing and perform a hundred other operations to prepare the frameset for our world-class welding team. Once they've locked the pieces in place, you pick up the frame on the other end, attending to all the final details to ensure it's as beautiful as it is functional.

Once you graduate from apprenticeship and begin building complete frames, you will make fully customized bicycle frames every day. It's the closest thing to perfection that the customer will ever ride. Tomorrow you do the same thing again.

Framebuilders at Seven quickly become some of the best fabricators in the world. Within a few years, you will have built more custom frames than most handmade builders craft in a lifetime. Your framebuilding value will be second to none. How is that possible? Our founders have been building bikes for 30 years. We've built more than 35,000 custom frames, so we've learned a few things. We have lots of tooling to make the job easier. We work fast and efficiently. We don't muck around.

You also work with the most experienced team in the custom bike industry. You'll learn from a builder mentor team with more than 150 years of combined framebuilding experience. Your learning opportunity is unlike any other in the industry.

Framebuilding at Seven has to be among the coolest jobs in the bike industry. The skills you learn are valuable and transferable to most other jobs within the bike world and even in the real world.

If the idea of becoming one of the best framebuilders in the industry, on a fast track by working with the most experienced build team in the industry, apply for the framebuilding role.

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Required Experience
  • None.

Ideal Qualifications
  • You love cycling and have a particular interest in high-end performance bikes.
  • Framebuilding experience with another builder, on your own, or through a framebuilding course.
  • Bike mechanic background while working at a bike shop.
  • You have worked with manual mills and lathes in a production setting.
  • You've done metalworking or woodworking of some sort.

Framebuilding Responsibilities
  • Fabricating frames from raw tubing through to completed frames ready for final bike assembly — with the exception of frame welding.
  • Participating in Seven's team goals for safety, accuracy, quantity, and continuous improvement.
  • Commitment to developing capabilities and skills to become a better framebuilder and teammate.
  • Equipment and machine maintenance.
  • Professionalism: You understand what it means that your team counts on you. You are dependable. You do what you say you'll do. You communicate clearly.
  • Our framebuilders work primarily independently but also as part of our builder group.

Compensation: Competitive hourly wage and benefits relative to other small businesses. Benefits include partial health insurance coverage, flex time, paid time off, bike industry benefits, a retirement plan, and more.

Work location: On-site at Seven Cycles in Watertown, MA.


Apply for this Job

If this role sounds like what you've been dreaming about, apply for the job here. Do not call us. Do not contact us at other Seven email addresses. If you have questions or want more information, email us using this form, and include your resume and cover letter.


About Seven Cycles, Inc.

We started Seven Cycles 26 years ago. Not only has our founding team been building bikes longer than just about any other multiperson handmade framebuilding company in the United States, but we are also the largest custom bicycle builder in the world. We've won numerous awards and have countless industry firsts to our credit.

Our mission is to build bikes that elevate what riders think is possible.

Seven Cycles is an equal opportunity employer. We provide competitive salaries and benefits relative to other small businesses. We support work-life balance and healthy mental and physical working conditions. Seven fosters a fast-paced, values-driven environment, placing particular focus on our employees, customer satisfaction, product quality, and innovation.

Contact us to become part of our team.