- Salary
- $21 – $25/hr
- Location
- Tempe, Arizona, US
- Type
- Full-time
- Education
- High School
- Source
- BetterTeam
Description
You know the install is wrong before anybody else does. You've fixed other people's work on your own time because you couldn't stand looking at it. You've waited on plans that never showed, run jobs off a truck that wasn't stocked, and watched somebody with less time in get handed the lead.
We're hiring an experienced installer.
The money:
- $21–$24/hr, based on what you bring.
- Overtime. Paid every other Friday. Defined pay ladder, and we promote off it.
- Daily per diem, tax-free, on your card the day you leave. Not reimbursed. Your own room.
- Crews travel in a company vehicle — not your miles, not your fuel.
- 401(k) with a 6% match. Health, dental, vision, life, HSA. PTO and 8 paid holidays.
- Every large tool provided — welders, plasma cutters, lifts. We pay for your fingerprint clearance card.
How we actually run:
Plans get pulled before the job. Specs and submittals checked against the site. Trucks stocked and serviced on a schedule. Per diem dispersed to the crew, not chased afterward. Basic competence — which you already know isn't universal. Crews are two to four, usually three. Same guys on the road, same guys on the job, start to finish. Family-run, and we hire people we expect to keep.
Travel is required. No exceptions.
Arizona and the surrounding Southwest — mostly Nevada, New Mexico, and Southern California, occasionally further. Mon–Fri, roughly half the month, with occasional weekend work. About 45 hours on travel weeks. No local-only version of this job. Coming off outage or pipeline rotations? Steady year-round W-2 here, real benefits, and a ladder — instead of chasing the next shutdown.
The work:
- Stadiums and arenas. Casinos. Airports. Hospitals. Hotels and resorts. Schools and universities.
- Fire stations, military, government. Industrial dining. Chain rollouts and one-off design-build concepts. Quick-service through fine dining.
- Hoods and flashing, walk-in panel systems, cook lines, stainless field welds and polishing, millwork, casework, booth and seating. Turnkey. No two jobs the same.
- Since 2004. Licensed, bonded, insured. Multiple crews running year round. Part of the Arizona Restaurant Supply family — #26 among the 100 largest foodservice equipment dealers in the country, and the only Arizona company on the list. Tucson showroom, Tempe fabrication plant.
- Our mission statement is simple. Be the Best. If you are the best, join our team.
What you bring
- Construction or trade experience is required. Commercial kitchen experience is not — that part we'll teach you.
- 3+ years in a finish trade — kitchen equipment, walk-in refrigeration, millwork and cabinetry, casework and fixtures, booth and seating, stainless, or commercial remodels. You read drawings. Solid with hand and power tools, forklifts, lifts.
- You've led a crew or been the one everybody asks. Clean driving record. Lift 70, push 100, ladders, active sites in any weather. HS diploma, GED, or equivalent military or practical experience.
- Never touched a commercial kitchen? Doesn't matter. If you've scribed a cabinet run to a wall that wasn't plumb, you already have the part we can't teach.
Apply!
Applications reviewed daily.
Background check, drug screen, and MVD record check before start. Innovative Installations participates in E-Verify. After a job offer, you'll complete Form I-9 and standard onboarding paperwork, including direct deposit setup.
Equal opportunity employer. All applicants considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. A note on job scams: we will never ask you for payment, bank details, or your Social Security number as part of applying or interviewing. Those come only after a job offer, through our normal onboarding — never by email or text from a stranger.
Application questions:
- This position requires overnight travel, Mon–Fri, about half of every month. Hotel and daily per diem covered. Can you commit to that?
- How many years of hands-on construction, trade, or mechanical work do you have — and doing what, specifically?
- Have you held a job before that required overnight travel? Where, and how long?
- Do you have your own basic hand tools, or would you need to get set up?
- Reliable transportation to Tempe for early morning departures?
- Valid driver's license, no major violations in 3 years?
- Anything that would prevent you passing a drug screen?