Automotive Lift Installation & Service Tech — Iowa

Auto Lift Serv; Iowa; Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & dental insurance

10 days PTO

Uniforms provided

Service truck and tools

Phone for field roles

Job summary

Auto Lift Services is seeking a mechanically skilled Mechanic & Automotive Lift Install / Service Tech to install and service lifts at dealer groups, fleets, and shops across Ames, IA and Lakeland, FL.

You’ll diagnose issues, rebuild hydraulic cylinders, perform inspections, and coordinate with customers, with merit-based pay and a field-based schedule.

Strong candidates have a wrench background, a valid license, and willingness to travel regionally; training on ALI certifications is provided.

Qualifications

• Mechanical aptitude with ability to read manuals, diagnose, and repair lifts.
• Valid driver's license; CDL is a bonus but not required.
• Ability to travel regionally; home most nights.
• Excellent customer-facing communication.
• Experience or training with ALI certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Install and service automotive lifts at dealer groups and fleets.
• Diagnose service calls on four-post lifts.
• Rebuild hydraulic cylinders on rotary two-post lifts.
• Complete annual ALI inspections.
• Load, deliver, and commission mobile column sets.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Valid driver's license

Read install manuals

Willing to travel

Customer-facing

ALI certification training

Job description

Mechanic & Automotive Lift Install / Service Tech Jobs

Locations: Ames, IA and Lakeland, FL

Pay: $18–$45/hr DOE + merit bumps

Type: Full-time or Part-time · Health & dental, 10 days PTO, service truck, tools

If you can turn a wrench, read a manual, and diagnose your way through a mechanical problem — you can install and service automotive lifts. We hire mechanics, ex-military wrenches, diesel techs, ag equipment techs, and mobile mechanics into our field crew all the time. It’s a real trade, it pays real money, and it’s more interesting than doing brake pads on the same fleet trucks every Monday. Ames, Iowa and Lakeland, Florida bases. Full-time or part-time.

Install and service automotive and truck lifts for dealer groups, tire chains, collision networks, municipal fleets, and independent shops. On any given day you might be:

• Installing a set of two-post lifts at a new dealership build-out (concrete anchoring, cable routing, arm alignment, ALI safety inspection).


• Diagnosing a service call on a four-post that’s not synchronizing across its lock positions.


• Rebuilding a leaking hydraulic cylinder on a customer’s rotary two-post.


• Doing an annual ALI inspection round on a fleet’s entire lift roster.


• Loading, delivering, and commissioning a mobile column set at a municipal transit shop.

You’ll represent us at the customer’s shop — explaining what you’re doing, what you found, and what should happen next. Not a heads-down role. The customers you’re working with sign the check, and building relationships with them is part of the job.

Pay

$18–$45/hr depending on experience and certifications.

• New hires from another trade during paid training: low-to-mid $20s.


• Techs with 1–2 years in the role and ALI certification: mid-$20s to low $30s.


• Senior techs with 3+ years, full ALI certifications, and specialty knowledge (heavy-duty truck lifts, alignment systems, hydraulic rebuilds): $32–$45/hr.


• Merit-based bumps for jobs completed on time, safely, without callbacks. Techs who install two lifts in a day when the tech next to them installs one make more that day.

Mobile Mechanic Background? Even Better.

If you’ve been doing mobile mechanic work — driving to fleets, servicing equipment in the field, invoicing customers directly — you already know 80% of what this job asks of you. The mechanical side is different (lifts vs. vehicles), but the workflow is identical: show up prepared, diagnose in the field, fix it right the first time, keep the customer informed. Mobile mechanics tend to hit our top pay bands faster than any other cross-trainees.

• Health and dental insurance


• 10 days paid time off per year


• Uniforms provided


• Service truck, tools, and phone for field-based roles


• Paid training on ALI certification, forklift, aerial lift, and specialty manufacturer training (Rotary, Challenger, Forward, BendPak, and more)

What You Bring

• Mechanical aptitude — a background in wrenching on anything (cars, trucks, ag, diesel, military equipment, industrial machinery) transfers cleanly.


• Valid driver’s license, clean-ish record. CDL is a bonus (some of our loads need it) but not required to start.


• Ability to read install manuals and diagnostic flowcharts.


• Willingness to travel a regional service area. Home most nights, occasional overnights for bigger installs.


• The soft skill: customer-facing composure. You’ll be the face of the company at every job.

Who Thrives Here

• Ex-military mechanics (any wrench MOS, ag equipment, motor pool, generator maintenance).


• Independent shop wrenches burned out on the same brake jobs and looking for something more technical.


• Mobile mechanics tired of chasing their own invoices.


• Diesel and heavy equipment techs who like the mechanical variety.


• Anyone who’d rather solve a hard problem than punch a clock.

Don’t Apply If

• You want to be in a heated bay all winter. Field work happens in real weather.


• You don’t want customer contact. Every job involves the shop owner or manager.


• You want a predictable 8-to-5 that ends the same time every day. Some calls run long.