Four years after he won the Golden Hammer Award as the top carpentry student at Orange Park (Florida) High School, Haskell Permanent Craft Employee Reese Sheehan has been recognized by the Northeast Florida Builders Association (NEFBA) as the 2025 Outstanding Apprentice for the Carpentry Trade.
Haskell sponsors the Golden Hammer Award, and Director of Self-Performance Tim Mosley, himself an OPHA graduate, brought Sheehan aboard three months after high school graduation.
“My Carpentry teacher, Stuart Cowen, used to work for Haskell and talked about it a lot,” he said. “I’ve been around residential my whole life. My dad’s a superintendent. But I decided I wanted to go to Big Boy construction and build megaprojects, so I just took the leap there and started the apprenticeship.”
The NEFBA Apprenticeships dovetail perfectly with Haskell’s Permanent Craft Employee (PCE) program, which was established in the mid-1970s when the company extended full-time employment and benefits to skilled tradespeople. The program provides stability to these professionals while elevating project standards. Today, Haskell has a workforce of more than 200 PCEs, who are masters in their trades and play a foundational role in the safety, quality, and efficiency of the projects on which they work.
Apprenticeships are paid positions regulated by federal and state guidelines. Apprentices work eight hours on a job site during the day and attend classes several nights a week for four years.
To this point in his career, Sheehan’s experience has spanned the Healthcare, Aviation & Aerospace, Education and Public Water markets.
“I can run formwork and do concrete,” Sheehan said. “I can run heavy equipment. I can do robotic layout with the Trimble. Pretty much every little thing we do, I know how to do it. I’ve learned a lot.”
He has multiple career paths available now that he has graduated from his apprenticeship and become a journeyman carpenter. He can travel for work and, thus, be assigned to Haskell projects across the U.S. and worldwide. He also has a one-year head start toward his industrial management degree.
Whatever he does, Mosley said, he’ll be a success.
“Reese is known for his professionalism and respectfulness,” Mosley said. “He has a promising career trajectory. He’s poised to achieve remarkable success in the carpentry trade.”
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