Installation Manager $48–$56/hr

Shadeboys; Temecula (CA); On-site; USD 66,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fixed job scope as agreed in writing

90-day onboarding plan with 30-day KPI

Mentor program for first 12 weeks

60-month personal, professional, and财务

Direct access to owner

Job summary

Shade Boys is seeking an experienced on-site installer/leader for windproof shade, awning and pergola installations across Southern California. You will run the shop and field operations, coordinating crews, fabricating components, and ensuring precise openings meet project specs.

You must hold a California contractor's license, be able to travel nationally a few times per year, and manage multiple jobs with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Required: Installation experience with window coverings (blinds/shades/shutters).
• Led installs on site: manage day and crew.
• Fabrication: run or work in a shop.
• Able to read an opening and make on-site decisions.
• Schedule work and people across several jobs.
• California contractor's license in own name (required for 1099).
• Valid driver’s license; ability to travel nationally a few times a year.
• Right to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead installs: schedule installers and dealer crews, run the job on site, sign off on finished work.
• Run Temecula fabrication shop: manage schedule, build orders, layout, and fixtures to meet four-week lead times.
• Walk each Southern California deal needing custom fabrication; confirm opening, mounting and specs on site.
• Sign off every cut order; no overrides on measurements.
• Schedule service visits and review reports.
• Train dealer and installer crews on site; sometimes out of state.
• Keep material and freight landing on time; log real build times and costs.
• Document teaching materials for future trainers.

Skills

Installation experience

On-site lead

Shop fabrication

Read openings

Multi-job scheduling

CA contractor's license

Driver's license

National travel

Outdoor shade install

Tubular motor programming

Aluminum extrusion

Welding/CNC

Zip-track systems

Written procedures

Spanish

Tools

N/A

Job description

About Shade Boys

Shade Boys Smart Blinds (SEOLO Group LLC) manufactures windproof zip-track shading, awnings and pergola structures, plus custom indoor blinds and, under our Shutter Boys brand, plantation shutters. Every unit is built to one specific opening after it is sold, and ships across the United States through Shade Boys Direct Manufacturing: as DIY kits to homeowners and contractors, and wholesale to dealers. Installation is done by licensed installers. We are based in Murrieta, California, and our outdoor product is fabricated in Southern California.

Job summary

We manufacture windproof zip-track shades, awnings and pergola systems, each built to one opening after it is sold, and ship them nationwide to homeowners, contractors and dealers. Licensed installers in our network put them in. This role runs everything between the order and a system that works on the customer's wall: the installs, the shop, the custom-fabrication site walks, and every repair and warranty claim after delivery.

Job details

• Pay: $48–$56/hr · target $52/hr · hourly
• Job type: Contract (1099 independent contractor)
• Schedule: Monday to Friday, with no daily hour cap: you plan your days around the work and invoice the time it actually takes. Install days on site, shop days in Temecula, and occasional national travel, sometimes on short notice
• Location: Temecula, California — on site, with installs and site walks across Southern California
• Location type: In person
• Travel: Southern California job sites, occasional national travel
• Reports to: The owner, with nothing in between

Requirements

Required:

• Installation experience, ideally window coverings: blinds, shades or shutters
• Led installs on site: you have run the day and the crew, not only worked it
• Fabrication: you have run or worked in a shop, not only managed one from a desk
• Able to read an opening, spot the problem before the crew does, and make the call on site
• Scheduled work and people across several jobs at once
• A California contractor's license covering window covering installation, held in your own name (required for this 1099 engagement)
• A valid driver's license, the ability to travel nationally a few times a year, and the right to work in the United States

Preferred:

• Outdoor shade, awning or patio cover installation
• Tubular motor programming (Somfy, Dooya or similar)
• Aluminum extrusion, welding or CNC
• Zip-track systems
• A written procedure that other people actually followed
• Spanish

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead installs: schedule installers and dealer crews, run the job on site, and sign off the finished work
• Run the Temecula fabrication shop: production schedule, build order, station layout and fixtures. Take minutes out of every unit without taking quality out, and bring outdoor lead times toward the goal of four weeks or under
• Walk every Southern California deal that needs custom fabrication before we build it: confirm the opening, the mounting and the spec, as our representative on site
• Sign off every cut order. Nobody overrides a measurement you have rejected — not sales, not the owner
• Schedule the service technician's visits and video calls, and review their visit reports
• Own every past-customer concern, repair and warranty claim, and decide repair, replace or claim on the evidence
• Train dealer and installer crews on site, sometimes out of state, and be the person they call when a job goes sideways
• Keep material and freight landing when production and installs need it
• Log real build times, install times and failure causes by product, so quotes match what we can actually do
• Write down what you teach, so the next trainer is not you

Pay and benefits

$48–$56/hr, target $52/hr. Invoiced weekly, paid bi-weekly. At 40 hours a week that is about $99,800 to $116,500 a year; hours are not capped, so actual pay follows the work.

• 1099 independent contractor engagement, not employment
• Hourly, set within the published range on your experience and agreed in writing. You can also bill a fixed fee per job where the scope is clear, agreed in writing before the job starts
• No daily hour cap. You plan your days around the work and invoice the time it actually takes
• Weekly invoice, paid bi-weekly
• Travel and job expenses covered at cost against receipts

Benefits:

• A fixed fee per job where the scope is clear, agreed in writing before the job starts
• A written 90-day onboarding plan, reviewed every 30 days against the numbers on this posting
• A mentor for your first twelve weeks
• A 60-month personal, professional and financial plan, written with you and reviewed in standing PPF meetings
• Direct access to the owner

This is a 1099 independent contractor engagement: no tax withholding, no health insurance, no PTO and no retirement plan.

What you are measured on

• Outdoor lead time, order to ship: 4 weeks or under (from 8 to 14 weeks today)
• Installs completed on the scheduled day, with no return trip: Set in writing at your 30-day review, from the month-one baseline
• Quoted versus actual build time: Within 10%
• Warranty claims and repairs open longer than 30 days: Zero

90-day onboarding

• Days 1–30: In the shop, on installs, site walks and service visits. Watch before changing anything, and set the month-one baselines for lead time, install days and shop hours.
• Days 31–60: The install schedule, the production schedule and the service schedule are yours. Run open warranty claims to resolution and log real build and install times by product.
• Days 61–90: Pick the two bottlenecks costing the most hours, fix them, and bring the before and after numbers to the 90-day review.

60-month plan

Every hire, in every role, starts with a written 60-month plan built with you in your first weeks. It has three lines — personal, professional and financial — and it is what the regular PPF meetings review. As volume grows, this role becomes operations as a whole, with the people under it.

Shade Boys considers every applicant without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law, and arranges an accommodation for any step of hiring on request.