Work the valley, sleep at home

Phoenix Air Care is three people and two trucks, and it grows the way Wade's install crews never could: a person at a time, when the workload honestly calls for one. If you like attics, rooftops, and a day that ends, keep reading.

What it is like here

The founder came out of new construction, so the shop runs the way a good build site runs. Every diagnosis gets placed against how the system went in. Every route gets built by a person who knows the corridors. You explain the failure to the homeowner in plain words, in the language of plans and build years, and you go home when the day is done. The far job is Buckeye or Casa Grande, not another state.

AC and Heating Technician

Full-time. Two or more years of residential repair work, heat pumps first in this valley, furnaces and package units alongside, and the habit of finding the cause before naming the part. A clean driving record and hand tools you trust are yours to bring; the specialty instruments ride with the truck. You should be comfortable with a homeowner standing in the garage doorway asking questions, because here the install story gets explained in plain words and questions are invited. Saturdays rotate across the whole crew, Wade included.

Apprentice

Full-time. Trade experience is not a requirement; mechanical sense is, and on that point there is no flexibility. You will ride with Wade or Isaiah, learn how a system was supposed to go in before you learn how it fails, and keep the record on every call until the habit is yours. Plenty of strong technicians we know began exactly this way, hauling tools and writing up work orders.

To apply

Write to hello@phoenixaircare.com with the subject line Careers, and tell us about a house you have seen that never cooled right from the day it was built, and what you think was wrong inside its walls. That story is the application. Each one is read, and each one receives an answer.