Work the metro, sleep at home

Alamo Air Care is three people and two trucks, and it grows the way Emilio's portfolio crews did: a person at a time, when the work honestly calls for one. If you like attics, patterns, and a day that ends, keep reading.

What it is like here

The founder came out of apartment maintenance, so the shop runs the way a good maintenance office runs. Every diagnosis gets placed in the house's pattern. Every route gets built by a person who knows the loops. You explain the failure to the homeowner in plain words, in the language of plans and vintages, and you go home when the day is done. The far job is New Braunfels or Pleasanton, not another state.

AC and Heating Technician

Full-time. Bring two or more years of residential repair work, heat pumps and air conditioners at the front of it, furnaces right behind, and the habit of finding the cause before naming the part. Clean driving record and a set of hand tools you trust; the specialty instruments come with the truck. A homeowner standing in the attic doorway asking questions should feel normal to you, because here the pattern gets explained in plain words and questions are invited. Saturdays rotate across the whole crew, Emilio included.

Apprentice

Full-time. Experience in the trade is not required; mechanical sense is, and it is not negotiable. You will ride with Emilio or Tyler. First you learn how a healthy system runs; the failures make sense after that, not before. Every call gets its record kept until keeping it is second nature. Plenty of strong technicians started exactly this way, carrying tools and writing work orders.

To apply

Write to [email protected] with the subject line Careers, and tell us about a breakdown you have seen so many times you could call it before you opened the panel. That story is the application. Every one gets read, and every one gets an answer.