Apprentice Technician
Crash Champions
Pinellas Park, FL, 33781, USA
Full-time
Champions Do More
Responsibilities
Apprentice Technician STEP Program :
- Potential to earn up to six figures and beyond!
- Gradual raises and bonuses throughout the four-level minimum 12-month program
- Mobile App and structured curriculum for real-time progress and interactive competitive learning
- Earn points as you learn and build your own tools valued at $8,000
- Full-time employment including benefits, paid time off and sick leave effective on start date
- Hands-on training with an experienced Champion Mentor who will guide you through the program
- Daily instruction that will prepare you for a career in the collision industry
- Mentors that care about you succeeding as much as you do
Responsibilities :
- Learn the industry standard of the manufacturer’s original specification with high quality controls
- Create a complete repair plan, vehicle disassembly and reassembly, plastic bumper repair, and minor panel dent repair
- Repair more complex dents by working and reshaping sheet metal, application of body filler, and advancing to two-sided plastic repair, larger panel damage
- Learn the basics of structural damage identification and how to access repair procedures
- Properly set-up and anchor structural repairs, as well as three-dimensional measuring of the vehicle structure
- Learn the various methods of welding / joining materials and tools
- Fine tune body filler and metal repairs, with the addition of stud-gun and other metal straightening tools and techniques, cutting and replacing small structural components
- Proper set-up and techniques for MIG welding on steel vehicles, to complete the I-CAR Weld Certification
Qualifications
- Ability to work full-time, 40 hours a week
- Lift up to 50 pounds
- Ability to stand for long periods of time and regularly position or move self to fix and repair over and under vehicles
- Ability to effectively communicate and take direction from superiors
- Ability to read and understand a work order
- High School Diploma / GED preferred
30+ days ago