Custom Rides of Hastings, Nebraska is a established restoration and custom business. We are expanding and looking to add a craftsman in our body and paint division. Duties include working in close cooperation with the metals side of our business and helping move projects through to completion including but not limited to priming, sanding, painting, and buffing. Candidate must be able to sequence work and processes with problem solving skills. Applicant is expected to have own tools and / or purchase specialty tools as needed. additional training and seminars are paid for by Custom Rides. Wages are based on performance and expertise in assigned areas. Our projects are extensively documented by photographs, worksheets, consultations with other employees and customers. Projects must meet shop standards which are clearly defined when accepting projects. this shop specializes in restorations and custom projects: no insurance work or crash repair is done at our shop. Benefits: Paid weekly, additional training and seminars paid, shop is available for employees' personal projects, accesss to lathe, milling machine, foundry, and full metal shop, lunch provided daily, bonuses availabe at completion of projects for quality work and meeting assigned hours, work shirts are provided, major holidays paid, day before and day after major holiday optional. If this sounds like you shoot me a pm to set up a interwiew. Pat
OK here is a question. When you say wages based on performance and expertise. Are you being competitive with what is paid in the field? Like say if the Ford garage is doaling out 35k per anum can a perspective employee expect that much from you as well? This is just a question.
Yes I would expect the right person to make that or more. Dealers around here are paying book time, at our shop a perspective employee is payed by the hour with no overtime limit as I understand you can't leave in the middle of clearing a car. Canidates are paid 12.50 for a trial and at the end of the trial a sit down is in order to talk about what pay will be recived. Trials are usually 16 hours of work, a few years ago I hired a guy that had a great pictures of his work and recomendations he cost me six thousand dollars in his first three days!!! We have a target number of hours average that we want to bill every day from each man and I understand that no one is 100% efficient but I can not afford to pay a guy 15 bucks a hour that can only bill 2 hours a day. That is why we have a trial if it doesn't work out at the end of the trial no hard feelings and they are paid for thier time hope this clears up a few things. Pat
You're missing the 'B' in your signature link. If it were in a state further West I would be interested in this. Good luck on finding someone.
Ooops! fixed, I am amazed how hard it is to hire one person. By the way gunslingers need not apply, I don't care how fast a paint job can be put on 1 extra hour can save 4 hours of finnish work. Pat
Custom Rides of Hastings, Nebraska is a established restoration and custom business. We are expanding and looking to add a craftsman or entry level fabricator in our body and fabrication division. Duties include working in close cooperation with the metals, and paint side of our business and helping move projects through to completion including but not limited to bump and dent, patch panels,panel fit and correction, entry level fabrication, and sanding. Candidate must be able to sequence work and processes with problem solving skills. Applicant is expected to have own tools and / or purchase specialty tools as needed. additional training and seminars are paid for by Custom Rides. Wages are based on performance and expertise in assigned areas. Our projects are extensively documented by photographs, worksheets, consultations with other employees and customers. Projects must meet shop standards which are clearly defined when accepting projects. this shop specializes in restorations and custom projects: no insurance work or crash repair is done at our shop. Benefits: Paid weekly, additional training and seminars paid, shop is available for employees' personal projects, accesss to lathe, milling machine, foundry, and full metal shop, lunch provided daily, bonuses availabe at completion of projects for quality work and meeting assigned hours, work shirts are provided, major holidays paid, day before and day after major holiday optional. Candidate is must be able to straighten panels within one thickness of metal and have some knowledge of english wheel, planishing hammer, bead roller, and tig welding. Candidate must me comfortable with taking a project from shaped panels up to and or through primer. http://www.allmetalshaping.com/picture.php?albumid=349&pictureid=6484 If this sounds like you shoot me a pm to set up a interwiew. Pat
Best of luck to ya'll finding someone. Too bad ya'll are so far away. I would love to work for a shop like this.
We have a interviewed a few but Im not sure at this point, looking for someone to work with us NOT for us. In a interview I tell people to think of our shop as thier customer and the shop is buying thier work for some reason this makes alot of guys nervous. Some will not do a work trial, I am suposed to take thier word that they can do what they say and turn them loose on a project? Work trials are the only fair way in my opinion to get a grip on somone's skill set and if it doesn't work out they are paid for thier time and there are no hard feelings. This is the way that I have got every job I have ever had and I really liked that someone would give me a shot and it was up to me to make it happen but most people are offended that we want to see what they can do I guess the world has changed alot in the last ten years. Pat
HaHA I have thought about going to the uk to try and advance my skill set by working with a English panel beater you guys over there do some amazing things by hand! Time has not ever allowed me to do that maybe some day as for relocating I don't know if I could afford to ship all of my equipment lol I think middle of nowhere Nebraska will do just fine if I could get a crew together. This year is our break out year as we have built our own chassis this year and are starting on our own hand made body(project intsigator) that we are hopefully going to show at the lead slead nationals in salina kansas. I will try and post some pictures of the instigator and our chassis but I need to update our web site to probably 10 projects that are not on there. Pat
Working with you - The shop and all employees work together as a team for the customer. Working for you - The employee works for the shop, who is the customer. I'm confused. If I was working with you, and not for you, then we are on the same team. If the shop is my customer, then you are on a different team than I am on. Although I get the jist of what you're saying, it might be why you're still interviewing.
Its Hard to get a point across on these fourms or it could be poor wording on my part all I want is for my guys to take pride in there work and have a sense of ownership in what they are doing. The sad reality of why we are still interviewing is that when a interview is over and its time for a shop tour most guys are just overwhelmed with what is going on. I am not trying to be a ahole about it but a guy that is a crash tech has never used a bead roller or a english wheel or a planishing hammer its just hard to find somone out here can pick those things up. Out of all the people that have called or send a resume only two have come from the hamb, really surprised with that. As a employer its my job to figure out where a guys skill set is and have he or she do the things that they are good at and comfortable with and then have them do some other things and advance thier skill set if you guys think that I am going about this wrong feel free to say so. Pat
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