Service-Install - Hourly: Installer, Commercial WND II at Overhead Door Corporation in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Job Description:

Who We Are?

Horton Pedestrian Access Solutions, a division of Overhead Door Corporation, is a leading manufacturer of specialty door and access solutions. With three manufacturing locations, multiple service locations, and more than 200 value-adding distribution partners across North America, Horton addresses a broad range of specialty door and access applications. Inventors of the automatic sliding door and accordion fire door, our product line has grown to include automatic swing doors, revolving doors, security doors, security exit lanes, specialty healthcare doors, modern commercial barn doors and service windows, making us a valuable resource for architects and building owners with code requirements and big vision. End users include healthcare facilities, airports, hotels, casinos, office buildings, convenience stores, retail food stores, schools and universities and government buildings. For more information about Horton’s brands, visit www.HortonDoors.com, www.WonDoor.com, and www.FlexbyHorton.com.

People love working here because we all share the same Purpose and Values

Our Purpose

Creating safe and secure access for generations.

Our Values

• Our People are our greatest strength


• We take the very bust care of our Customers
  


• We strive to always Do What’s Right
  


• We aspire to Be Extraordinary today, while building an even better future

POSITION OVERVIEW

Our well-trained Won-Door technicians rank among the most skilled professionals in the construction industry - responsible for installing large and complex doors with mechanical, electronic and code-compliance aspects. As the face of the company, we rely on our Won-Door technicians to provide an outstanding experience to our general contractor and end-user customers while installing and servicing our life-saving fire and security doors. Our technicians are positioned near major metropolitan areas around the country and cover geographic territories generally extending from 100 to 250 miles from their home base depending on population density. Technicians work from their own homes and use their own trucks, with products to be installed shipped directly to the job sites. Jobs are dispatched to our technicians by a support team based at Won-Door’s headquarters in Salt-Lake City, Utah.

Compensation & Benefits Our technicians are members of the Local Carpenters Union #801 with attractive compensation and benefits negotiated as part of a collective bargaining agreement.  Depending upon their experience level, our apprentices earn $18.98 to $24.40 per hour plus union benefits for their first 6-12 months while they are paired with an experienced journeyman for training.  Once promoted, hourly rates for journeymen increase to Union negotiated rates for their work location plus performance bonuses for completed work.  Our average journeyman makes W2 earnings of $100,000 per year, and the top 10% make more than $150,000 per year.

Union benefits include:

Our technicians are reimbursed for usage of their vehicles based on the optional standard mileage rate established by the Internal Revenue Service and are paid per diem rates to cover other travel expenses.

During their apprenticeship period our technicians live in the home territory of their journeyman trainer.   Once promoted to journeyman and returned to their home base city, our technicians average approximately 33% of their time on overnight travel assignments.