Automotive Body Tech Apprentice: Earn While You Learn

Crash-Champions-Collision-Repair-Team-1; West Bend (WI); On-site; USD 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Group Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan with match

Referral Bonus

5 Paid Holidays

Job summary

Crash Champions in Wisconsin offers the Skills Training Education Program (STEP), a hands‑on apprenticeship that pairs you with experienced professionals. You’ll get paid while fine‑tuning your collision repair skills and working toward becoming a certified technician.

No prior collision experience is required; however, experience is a bonus. This full‑time role includes benefits, paid time off and sick leave, with mentors guiding you through daily training and industry‑standard procedures.

Qualifications

• 18 years of age.
• Ability to work full‑time, 40 hours a week.
• Lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Have a valid driver’s license.
• Regularly position or move self to fix and repair over and under vehicles.
• Ability to effectively communicate and take direction from superiors.
• Ability to read and understand a work order.

Responsibilities

• Learn the industry standard of the manufacturer’s original specification with high quality controls.
• Create a complete repair plan, vehicle disassembly and reassembly, plastic bumper repair, and minor panel dent repair.
• Repair more complex dents by working and reshaping sheet metal, application of body filler, and advancing to two‑sided plastic repair, larger panel damage.
• Learn the basics of structural damage identification and how to access repair procedures.
• Properly set‑up and anchor structural repairs, as well as three‑dimensional measuring of the vehicle structure.
• Learn the various methods of welding/joining materials and tools.
• Fine tune body filler and metal repairs, with the addition of stud‑gun and other metal straightening tools and techniques, cutting and replacing small structural components.
• Proper set‑up and techniques for MIG welding on steel vehicles, to complete the I‑CAR Weld Certification.

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Crash Champions in Wisconsin offers the Skills Training Education Program (STEP), a hands‑on apprenticeship that pairs you with experienced professionals. You’ll get paid while fine‑tuning your collision repair skills and working toward becoming a certified technician.

No prior collision experience is required; however, experience is a bonus. This full‑time role includes benefits, paid time off and sick leave, with mentors guiding you through daily training and industry‑standard procedures.