Skilled Installer - Radon Mitigation
Skilled Installer — Radon Mitigation | Construction Background Preferred Apex Radon Defense — Fort Wayne, IN
($28,000–$55,000 annually)
What This Job Actually Is
You install residential radon mitigation systems in occupied homes. That means drilling through concrete slabs, routing Schedule 40 PVC, making clean exterior penetrations through siding and masonry, hanging pipe, and leaving the job site cleaner than you found it.
This is physical, skilled trade work. If you've done HVAC installs, waterproofing, plumbing rough-in, finish carpentry, or any work that required you to think through a system and execute it cleanly inside someone's home — you already have most of what we're looking for. We'll teach you the radon part.
This is not a helper role. You will be trusted with a company vehicle, a homeowner's house, and a job to complete on your own once you're trained. We don't babysit. We don't micromanage. We do have written standards, and we expect them followed every time.
The Honest Picture on Hours and Pay
We're running 3–4 installs per week right now and growing. We want to be straight with you about that upfront rather than oversell it.
Pay:
- Base hourly rate commensurate with experience — competitive with skilled trade work in the Fort Wayne market
- Performance-based earnings structure kicks in once you're running solo installs — fast, quality installers earn meaningfully more than hourly
- Hours grow directly with volume — we are targeting full-time by Q4 and the compensation structure is designed to reward you as that happens
What's included:
- Company vehicle during work hours
- All tools, PPE, and materials provided — you buy nothing
- Drive time paid from staging location
- Paid training from day one
- Company uniform provided
- 1 week paid PTO after 12 months
- Paid holidays
- NRPP certification sponsorship within your first year — that credential belongs to you
We're not going to promise benefits we don't have yet. Health coverage is the goal as the company scales. We'd rather be honest than oversell.
What the Work Looks Like Day to Day
- Arrive prepared. Truck stocked the night before. Know the job before you leave the driveway.
- Walk the job with the homeowner. Explain the plan in plain language. Be professional.
- Core through concrete, route pipe from suction point to above roofline, install the fan, seal everything, verify the system is working.
- Take before and after photos from matching angles. Document the manometer reading. Update the job file before leaving the driveway.
- Leave the space cleaner than you found it. No exceptions.
The work is hard. Clay soil jobs are physically demanding. Crawlspaces are dirty. Some attics are brutal in summer. We're not hiding that. If that doesn't scare you off, keep reading.
Who We're Looking For
The ideal candidate has 2–5 years in any of the following trades: HVAC installation, waterproofing or basement systems, plumbing rough-in, finish carpentry, general construction, or property maintenance. You don't need radon experience. You need to know how to work inside someone's home, follow a system, and take pride in what you leave behind.
You're a fit if you:
- Show up on time, every time, prepared
- Can read a written SOP and follow it exactly
- Think through a pipe route before you drill, not after
- Communicate clearly with homeowners — calm, professional, not robotic
- Catch your own mistakes before they become callbacks
- Want to build a skill set, not just collect a check
You're not a fit if you:
- Cut corners when no one's watching
- Need reminders to take photos or complete documentation
- Treat a client's finished basement like a job site
- Are looking for a short-term stop between other things
Non-Negotiables
- Clean background check
- Clean driver's license — must be insurable to operate a company vehicle
- Physically capable of slab coring, attic work, crawlspace work, ladder and roof work
- Comfortable with power tools — rotary hammer, sawzall, drill, impact driver
- Able to follow written install standards exactly, every job
The Path Forward
Right now you're an Install Tech learning the ARD system. Within 60–90 days, if you're executing clean solo installs with complete documentation and low callbacks, you move to Lead Installer. That comes with a lead bonus per completed job and first opportunity to train anyone we bring on behind you.
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our service area
We serve the following areas
- Albion
- Andrews
- Arcola
- Ashley
- Auburn
- Avilla
- Berne
- Bippus
- Bluffton
- Churubusco
- Columbia City
- Corunna
- Craigville
- Cromwell
- Decatur
- Fort Wayne
- Garrett
- Geneva
- Grabill
- Hoagland
- Huntertown
- Huntington
- Kendallville
- Keystone
- Kimmell
- Laotto
- Larwill
- Leo
- Liberty Center
- Ligonier
- Linn Grove
- Markle
- Monroe
- Monroeville
- New Haven
- Ossian
- Petroleum
- Poneto
- Preble
- Roanoke
- Rome City
- South Whitley
- Spencerville
- Uniondale
- Warren
- Waterloo
- Wawaka
- Wolflake
- Yoder
- Zanesville