# Join The Team OCRV Center hires body, paint, structural, RV systems and interior technicians at a 35,000 square foot facility in Yorba Linda. The work is RVs, trailers, vans and commercial vehicles rather than cars, which is a different skill set and a longer apprenticeship. ## What the work actually is RV repair is not automotive repair at a larger scale. The materials are different, the construction is different, and the tolerances are different. A body technician arriving from collision work has to learn laminate, gelcoat, sealant chemistry and the fact that a coach flexes. The upside is that the work is varied and rarely repetitive. No two coaches are damaged the same way, most jobs involve deciding rather than following a procedure, and the problem solving is real. ## The roles in the building Structural and frame, body and laminate, refinish and colour, RV systems covering 12 volt and 120 volt, generator, plumbing and appliances, interior joinery, and estimating. Estimating on RVs is its own discipline, because a supplement written well is what gets a repair paid for properly. ## How to get in touch Call (949) 799-3387 or email info@ocrvcenter.com. Tell us what you have worked on rather than sending a formatted resume, because what matters is what you have actually had your hands in. Apprentices are considered alongside experienced technicians. ## The backgrounds people arrive here from Very few people train as recreational vehicle technicians. Almost everybody arrives from somewhere adjacent, and which somewhere decides what the first year looks like. Automotive collision technicians bring hand skills and measurement discipline and have to unlearn the expectation that a published procedure exists. Boat builders and laminators arrive already fluent in the material and have to learn structure and claims. Cabinetmakers walk into interior work and find that everything they build has to survive road vibration. Dealership technicians know the systems and have rarely been allowed near structure. All four routes work. - Automotive collision: strongest on structure, weakest on laminate and sealant chemistry - Marine and boat repair: strongest on layup, weakest on carrier documentation - Cabinetmaking and joinery: strongest on fit, weakest on weight and movement - Dealer service: strongest on systems, rarely experienced on body and structure - Electricians: unusually valuable, because coach power spans two voltages and a generator - No trade background at all: slower, and occasionally the fastest learner in the building ## The shape of a week in this building The shop runs Monday to Friday from eight until five, with a shorter Saturday. Recreational vehicle work does not divide neatly into eight hour units, and the honest description of the rhythm is that it is lumpy. A coach waiting on a moulded cap generates nothing for a fortnight and then absorbs three people for a week when the part lands. Most technicians here are therefore working across more than one vehicle at a time and switching between them as parts, paint schedules and carrier approvals allow. People who like finishing one thing before starting another find that genuinely irritating for the first few months. People who like variety settle in quickly. ## The habits that make somebody useful here quickly Curiosity about why something failed rather than only how to replace it. A coach is a system of systems and the fault is frequently upstream of the part that stopped working, so the technicians who become valuable are the ones who keep asking one question further than the repair order does. A tolerance for being wrong in public is the other one. Structural work here is measured and refinish is checked in two lights by somebody who did not spray it, which means mistakes surface rather than hiding. That is uncomfortable and it is the whole reason the standard holds. ## What this shop is not able to offer No pay figures, benefit details or start dates are published anywhere on this site, and none will be invented for a recruitment page. Those are discussed directly with the person applying, because publishing a number that has not been set would be the only fabricated figure on a site where every other number traces to a source. There is no second location and no mobile operation, so there is no route into this job that involves working from a van. Everything happens at the Yorba Linda facility. There is also no formal graduate scheme, no rotation programme and no structured training calendar. This is a specialist shop that teaches on real vehicles, which suits some people and does not suit others. ## The commute, honestly assessed The facility sits in Yorba Linda at the eastern edge of Orange County, which is an easy commute from the inland side and a genuinely tedious one from the coast at peak hours. Somebody driving up from Laguna Niguel daily should look at that honestly before applying rather than after three weeks of it. Shop hours help slightly, since an eight o'clock start is ahead of the worst of the traffic in both directions. It is still a real consideration and it is better weighed now than treated as a detail. ## Making an approach that gets read Describe two or three jobs you have finished, in enough detail that somebody who does this work can tell you actually did it. Where a delamination stopped and how you found the edge. What you measured and what it read. Which slide system it was and what had actually failed. That is more convincing than any list of courses. Name the role you are aiming at. Applications are considered against a specific capability rather than against a general opening, and a message that could have been sent to any shop in the county reads as exactly that. If you are still deciding whether this trade is for you, ask to come and look at the building rather than asking for a job. Half an hour on the floor tells you more about whether you want this work than any description on a careers page can, including this one. --- Source: https://ocrv.guru/join-the-team-at-ocrv-center/ OCRV Center, 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. (949) 799-3387. Serving Laguna Niguel, California. All work performed in shop. No mobile or roadside service. Licences: California Bureau of Automotive Repair ARD00288521; EPA CAL000367879. Published ranges are ranges, not quotes. Every figure traces to https://ocrv.guru/prices/.