# Working the Bays at a 35,000 Square Foot Shop > OCRV Center hires body and structural technicians, refinish technicians, RV systems technicians, estimators and support staff at its 35,000 square foot Yorba Linda facility. The work spans recreational vehicles, campers, trailers, vans and commercial trucks, all performed in shop. Applications go to the shop email with a resume and a description of hands on experience. Source: https://ocrv.biz/careers/ Business: OCRV Center, 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. (949) 799-3387. Serving Tustin, California. ## What roles does the shop hire for? Five broad categories, and the split between them shifts with the mix of work in the building. - **Body and structural technicians.** Panel repair and replacement, fiberglass layup and fairing, aluminum skin work, composite panel bonding, frame and chassis correction, welding. The largest group and the one with the widest skill range, from cosmetic panel work to certified structural welding. - **Refinish technicians.** Preparation, masking, color matching, base and clear application, blending, segmented coach schemes, decal and graphics work. Booth discipline is the whole job and the difference between competent and excellent shows up under direct sunlight. - **RV systems technicians.** Slide mechanisms, leveling, awnings, 12V and 110V electrical, inverters and lithium house banks, LP systems, plumbing and tanks, furnaces, water heaters, air conditioning, generators and appliances. The most varied role in the building. - **Estimators and claim coordinators.** Writing documented estimates, photographing damage, filing supplements, negotiating line items with adjusters, tracking parts availability. Half technical judgment, half written communication. - **Support and parts.** Customer intake, scheduling, parts sourcing and receiving, staging, detail and reconditioning. Parts sourcing in this trade is genuinely a specialist skill because so many components are discontinued. Openings are not always live in every category. A resume on file matters here more than at most employers, because when a bay opens up the shop would rather call someone already known than start a search. ## What is the work actually like? Bigger than what you are used to, and more varied. A technician here might spend Monday on a laminated recreational sidewall, Wednesday on a composite box truck panel and Friday on an aluminum riveted skin. The transfer between those problems is real and it is what makes people good at this quickly. The scale changes the physical job. Working on a forty five foot coach means scaffolding, lifts, ladders and long reaches rather than a car on a two post hoist. Roof work is real roof work at height. Panels are large and heavy and frequently need two people. Nobody should pretend that is the same job as passenger car body repair. The diagnostic side is harder than most people expect and it is where technicians grow fastest. An intermittent 12 volt fault on a coach with three converters, a transfer switch, an inverter, a solar controller and forty years of accumulated owner wiring modifications is a genuine puzzle. So is tracing a water path back through a laminated wall to a window frame nobody suspected. All work is performed in shop, so the day happens in one place with the equipment at hand rather than out of the back of a van. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, with Saturday coverage from 9:30am to 3:00pm. Sunday is closed. ## What experience transfers into this shop? More than people assume. The shop has hired successfully from several adjacent trades, and in most cases the missing knowledge is learnable while the underlying craft is not. - **Automotive collision.** Panel work, filler discipline, refinish and estimating transfer directly. What has to be learned is laminated and composite construction, sealing as a structural function, and the fact that concealed damage is the normal case rather than the exception. - **Marine repair.** Possibly the closest adjacent trade there is. Fiberglass layup, gelcoat, core repair, sealing against water intrusion and systems work on 12V and LP are all directly applicable. - **Heavy truck and trailer.** Structural welding, chassis work, brake and suspension, and equipment installation transfer straight across. Interior and appliance systems are the new material. - **Construction and finish carpentry.** Underrated. Interior remodels, cabinetry, flooring, subfloor replacement and wall panel work are a substantial share of the shop's revenue and the standards are closer to cabinetmaking than to automotive trim. - **Electrical and low voltage.** Solar, lithium banks, inverters, transfer switches and shore power are a growing category and the diagnostic method transfers cleanly. What does not transfer is the assumption that a vehicle is standardized. Nothing in this category has a reliable part number, a database labor time or an identical twin, and a technician who needs those things to work will find it frustrating. ## What does the shop expect from technicians? Four things, and they are all consequences of how the work is billed and documented. Document as you go. Photographs at teardown, moisture readings by location, notes on what was found and what was done. Estimates, supplements and disputes are all built from what the technician recorded at the time, and nothing can be reconstructed afterward. Stop at the approval boundary. Work performed beyond an authorized scope, particularly on a claim, may not be paid and turns into an argument about who absorbs it. Finding more damage is expected. Continuing past it without authorization is not. Seal properly, even where nobody will look. Water intrusion is the primary long term failure mode for this entire category of vehicle, and the seams that fail are always the invisible ones. A repair that looks correct and leaks in two winters is a failure regardless of how it photographed. Say what you actually think about a job. If a rig is past the point where it should come back, if a repair path is not going to hold, or if a part does not exist and adaptation is the honest answer, that assessment needs to reach the estimator before the owner hears an optimistic version. The shop's whole approach depends on the technical opinion being unfiltered. ## How do you apply? Send a resume to the shop email address at info@ocrvcenter.com, with a short description of the hands on work you have actually performed. Specifics beat titles. Tell us the vehicles, the materials, the systems and the kinds of failures you have diagnosed. Photographs of your own completed work carry real weight in this trade and are welcome as attachments. If you are applying without direct recreational vehicle experience, say what you do have and be specific about the adjacent skill. A marine fiberglass background or a finish carpentry background is a strong application here, and framing it clearly is more useful than trying to sound like a recreational vehicle technician you have not yet been. For estimator and coordinator roles, include a writing sample if you have one, even an informal one. Filing a supplement that gets approved is a writing task as much as a technical one, and the ability to explain in plain words why an operation is necessary is the core skill. Applications are read as they arrive and kept on file when there is no matching opening. The facility is at 23281 La Palma Ave in Yorba Linda, and general questions can go through the [contact form](/contact/) as long as the resume itself goes to the shop email. ## Questions ### Do I need recreational vehicle experience to be hired? Not necessarily. Automotive collision, marine fiberglass, heavy truck, finish carpentry and low voltage electrical backgrounds have all worked out well here. What matters is craft discipline and comfort with vehicles that are not standardized. The category specific knowledge is learnable in the bay. ### Is the work seasonal? The mix is seasonal, the volume less so. Winterization and de winterization cluster, roof reseals cluster before the rain, and collision work rises after holiday travel weekends. Structural and refinish files run for months and smooth most of that out, so the bays stay occupied year round. ### Are technicians expected to travel to customer locations? No. All work is performed in shop at the Yorba Linda facility, because the structural equipment, paint booth and lift capacity are what make the repairs correct. Your day happens in one building with the tools at hand. ### What tools are technicians expected to provide? That varies by role and is discussed directly during hiring rather than stated as a blanket rule. Large shared equipment, the booth, lifts, structural anchoring and measuring systems, scan tools and specialty fixtures belong to the shop. ## Related - [About Us](https://ocrv.biz/about/) - [Our Story](https://ocrv.biz/our-story/) - [Our Process](https://ocrv.biz/our-process/) - [Why Choose Us](https://ocrv.biz/why-choose-us/) - [Service Area](https://ocrv.biz/service-area/) - [Request a Quote](https://ocrv.biz/contact/)