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Join a winning team producing a high quality product.  North Star homes is in its 8th year of steady and growing operations. 

A home is the largest and most important investment a family makes.  Modular construction is the present and future of great home building.  Our homes help provide start-up, move-up, luxury and retirement homes for people in the Upper Midwest.   Be a part of this!

Sample home that we build.

Locations:  Marshall and Tracy, MN

Hours:  4 days per week for 10 hours a day (Monday through Thursday), overtime pay (1.5 x hourly) and second shifts possible.

Pay and benefits:

• $9-10/hour to start, more for supervisory levels. Up to .50-$1 raise each year
• Group Health Insurance after 90 days of employment
• 401K/Profit Sharing
• Pre-tax Cafeteria Flex Plan offered for medical and health insurance
• 1 week paid vacation after 12 months, 1 day additional vacation after each 6 months worked, 6 paid Holidays
• 3 day weekend (Fri, Sat & Sun)

Modular vs. manufactured -- what's the difference?

Modular houses are built in a factory in two to five major pieces, then shipped to a job site, where the sections are assembled on a prepared foundation. They are built to the same state and local building codes as site-built homes.  This is what we build at North Star Homes.

Manufactured houses, sometimes called mobile homes or trailers, are built on a non-removable steel chassis, and they meet different building standards. There are restrictions on where they can be placed.

Modular Home Questions and Answers

Modular homes are often confused with smaller, rectangular, factory built homes such as "mobile" or singlewide homes placed in mobile home parks or rural areas. Modular construction is a technique that has developed over the past 40 years to provide highly controlled costs and quality control. The home design is broken down into dimensional Modular units. A typical Modular home consists of 1 to 5 Modular building units; an apartment or a hotel can be 20 or more units, depending on the design. The configuration of the units creates the core section of the structure that is assembled and attached to a permanent foundation. Construction is then completed around the Modular sections to achieve the desired design and amenities for a custom home equivalent to a common site-built home.

Q. What is a Modular home?
A. Modular homes of today are the product of highly evolved manufacturing techniques and quality assurance. Modular builders use state of the art computer design combined with world class manufacturing techniques in a controlled manufacturing environment. The highly engineered structures are built and shipped in sections by truck to the building site where they are assembled. Modular homes conform to the same local building codes as a regular home (often called site-built or stick-built homes). Once they are attached to the foundation, they are indistinguishable from the neighboring homes.

Q. Why are we hearing more about Modular homes?
A. Modular homes have become more popular as the variety and quality has increased due to newly evolved industry technologies. Design flexibility and engineered building components have opened the door to more innovative designs. Modular homes are no longer limited to one story rectangular structures. Today's Modular homes feature vaulted ceilings, large open spaces (28' or even up to 42') and are offered in all styles: two story, ranch, and multi-level. Modular manufacturers also produce office buildings, motels, apartments and senior care facilities.

Q. What is the difference between the terms "Manufactured Home" and "Modular Home"?
A. Manufactured homes, often referred to as "mobile, single or double wide homes,” are constructed to a different building standard. This standard is the Federal Construction Safety Standard or HUD code. Unlike conventional building codes, it requires manufactured homes to be constructed on non-removable steel chassis. Many communities have restrictions on where (and if) these homes can be located.

Modular homes (even though they are "manufactured") and site-built homes on the other hand, are constructed to the same building code as required by state and local authorities. Building and zoning regulations therefore do not restrict where they are built.

Q. Is a Modular home better than a site-built home?
A. YES! With a Modular home efficiency and quality control are present. Efficiency begins with a modern production facility and continues with process control at every step of the construction process. The home moves through workstations with all the building trades represented. Work is never delayed by weather, subcontractor no-shows or missing material. Quality engineering and Modular construction techniques significantly increase the energy efficiency of the home. A quality control process provides 100% assurance that the home has been inspected for code compliance and workmanship at every step. Both in-plant inspectors and independent inspection agencies inspect the home on behalf of your state and local government.

The difference in quality control is clear; site built homes depend on periodic inspections by local inspectors, while Modular homes are subject to constant inspection. When problems are discovered within site-built homes, rework is expensive and causes delays in the project. In the production facility of Modular homes, quality is managed and checked as an integral part of the manufacturing process. All problems are corrected in near real time and errors are tracked to ensure closed loop corrective action. Quality is assured by design, not by rework.

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