--- title: "Careers at OCRV Center | RV Repair Technician Work" description: "What the benches at a 35,000 square foot Yorba Linda RV shop actually do, which trades we are short of, and how an application reaches a department lead." focus_keyword: "rv repair technician jobs yorba linda" canonical: https://ocrv.me/careers/ kind: simple updated: 2026-07-29 source: OCRV Center --- # Working at OCRV Center, and What Each Bench Actually Does > Five departments hire on **measurable skill rather than years listed**. Applications go to the department lead, not to a portal. **Open roles are not published here** because the list changes weekly. ## How do I apply for a job at OCRV Center? Send a short note and a work history to the shop, naming the department you want, and it reaches that department lead directly. OCRV Center hires structural, refinish, systems, claims and fleet roles at the Yorba Linda facility. Open positions are not listed on this page because the list changes too often to be accurate. - Name the department: structural, refinish, systems, claims or fleet - Certifications are read first, then what you can demonstrate on the floor - Automotive body experience transfers into structural and refinish work - Every bench is in shop at Yorba Linda, not on the road ### Key facts | Item | Value | | --- | --- | | Departments hiring from | 5 (Structural, refinish, systems, claims, fleet) | | Location | Yorba Linda, California (One facility, no satellite sites) | | Floor space | 35,000 sq ft | | Facility licence | BAR ARD00288521 | | Application route | Direct to a lead (Email or a note at the counter during posted hours) | This page does not list open positions. That is deliberate: a bench opens and closes faster than a website gets edited, and a stale vacancy list wastes an applicant's afternoon. What this page does is describe the work honestly enough that you can tell whether you want it, and explain how a note reaches the person who would actually hire you. If you are a car technician wondering whether recreational vehicle work is a step sideways or a step up, read the bench descriptions before deciding. The trades overlap less than you would think and pay attention to different things. ## What each bench does on an ordinary day Five departments, five different days. Structural work is anchoring, pulling and measuring, and the output is a printed comparison against factory dimensions rather than a panel that looks straight. Refinish is masking, matching and cure discipline, on units big enough that a single mistake costs a full booth cycle. Systems is investigation: meters, scan tools, propane pressure testing and a great deal of patience with wiring somebody else improvised in 2011. The two non technical benches matter as much. Claims writes scopes from measured findings and argues supplements with adjusters, which is a documentation trade rather than a sales one. Fleet holds commercial accounts, schedules multi unit rotations around an operator's calendar and keeps purchase order paperwork straight. Both are jobs where being right on paper is the whole product. - Structural: rack work, anchoring, electronic measurement, structural release - Refinish: booth scheduling, spectrophotometer matching, multi substrate spraying - Systems: twelve volt and shore power tracing, LP testing, slide drives, appliances - Claims: scope writing, teardown documentation, supplement justification - Fleet: account handling, downtime planning, purchase order and net thirty billing ## What gets read first on an application Certifications, then evidence. I-CAR structural certification, LP gas certification and refinish experience on large substrates all move a note to the top of a pile. After that the question is what you can show: a measurement you took that changed a repair plan, a colour match on a faded gelcoat cap, a fault you found that two other people had missed. Specific beats general every time. Years of experience listed on their own tell us very little. Ten years of replacing parts without diagnosing anything is not ten years of experience, and one season of careful measurement work often reads stronger. Nobody here is asked to do arithmetic in an interview room. You get asked how you would approach a real unit sitting on the floor. - I-CAR structural certification for the collision side - LP gas certification for anything touching propane - Refinish work on gelcoat, filon or laminated panels rather than only sheet metal - Evidence of diagnosis, not only of replacement ## Coming from automotive or heavy truck work Two things transfer cleanly. Structural discipline transfers, because a pull is a pull and measurement is measurement, and a technician used to control points on a unibody adapts to a ladder frame quickly. Refinish transfers even better, with one adjustment: panel sizes here are enormous and the substrates change halfway along a wall, so blend planning matters more than spray technique. What does not transfer is the house side. Nothing in automotive training covers a Norcold cooling unit, a Suburban water heater, an Onan set that drops load under air conditioning, or a Schwintek rail whose teeth have rounded over at the end of travel. That knowledge gets built here, deliberately, and the people who do best at it are the ones comfortable saying they do not know yet. ## How to apply so it actually reaches somebody Send a note to the shop email or leave one at the counter during posted hours, and put the department in the first line. That single detail routes it. A note that says structural goes to the structural lead unopened by anybody else, and a note that says any department available goes into a pile that gets read slowly. Attach a work history if you have one written. If you do not, three paragraphs about jobs you have actually finished works just as well. There is no application portal, no automated screening and no acknowledgement email generated by software. A person reads it. If a bench is open in that department you will hear back reasonably quickly. If nothing is open the note stays on file, and department leads do go back to that file when something changes. 1. Put the department in your first line: structural, refinish, systems, claims or fleet. 2. List certifications with their issuing body, and the year if you have it. 3. Describe two jobs you finished and what made each one difficult. 4. Say whether you are looking for a full bench or an apprentice route. 5. Send it to the shop email, or hand it in at the counter during posted hours. ## The apprentice route into systems work Systems is the department where a beginner has the clearest path, because the entry level task is real and useful: cycling slides, water testing after reassembly, tracing a circuit under supervision and documenting what was found. None of that is filler. Every one of those tasks is on a repair order and gets billed, which means an apprentice is producing from the first month rather than sweeping. The trade off is that it is slow. Certification takes time, propane work is supervised until it is not, and nobody is turned loose on an inverter installation in their first season. If you want to learn a trade properly rather than quickly, this is a reasonable place to do it. ## What this job is not Every bench here is on the floor at Yorba Linda. We do not staff mobile service crews and there is no roadside team to join, because the rack, the booth and the filtration are fixed installations. If you are looking for route based work in a van, this is not that job and never will be. It is also not a flat rate sprint. Diagnostic hours are billed as their own line precisely so that investigation is paid for, which means nobody is rewarded here for guessing quickly. A technician who spends an hour with a meter before ordering a part is doing the job correctly, and the pay structure is not designed to punish that. ## Questions and answers ### Do you have open benches at the moment? That changes too often for a web page to be accurate, which is why nothing is listed here. Send a note naming the department and you will get a straight answer about that department within a few days. Notes stay on file when nothing is open, and leads do return to the file. ### Which certifications matter most for the technical benches? I-CAR structural certification for collision work, LP gas certification for anything touching propane, and demonstrable refinish experience on large non metal substrates. None of the three is absolutely required to start, but each one shortens the conversation considerably and each one raises what a bench can be paid. ### Can an automotive body technician move into recreational vehicle work? Yes, and that is the most common route onto this floor. Structural and refinish skills transfer directly. What has to be learned is scale, substrate behaviour and the house systems side, which takes a season or two of supervised work. Technicians who adapt fastest are the ones who ask before assuming a coach behaves like a car. ### Is there a way in without a trade background at all? Through the systems department, usually. The starting work is genuine: cycling slide rooms, water testing after reassembly, documenting findings and tracing circuits under supervision. It is slow, supervised and certification bound, so it suits somebody who wants a trade rather than a quick wage. Say so in your note and it gets read that way. --- Source: [OCRV Center](https://ocrv.me/careers/). Last verified 2026-07-29.