Open role · Posted 2026-04-12 · One headcount

Greywater installer · R-37R apprentice or journeyman.

We need a fifth plumber to share the GWY-1 install load and learn EARTH-1 / CIS-1 over time. The work is half stub-outs and laundry-to-landscape, half cistern feed and condensate routing. The shop is small. The hours are predictable. The pay is honest.

A greywater stub-out being installed under a Tucson home.

About the role

The work is residential greywater install — stub-outs, branched-drain layouts, three-way diverters, mulched basin terminations — plus EARTH-1 supporting work (basins, curb cuts, mulch placement) and CIS-1 supporting work (downspout transitions, first-flush mounting, drip irrigation tie-in). The lead on most of these jobs is currently Marisol; you'd partner with her or with one of our other journeymen for the first three to six months, depending on your existing hours.

This is a Tucson-only role with a 20-mile radius from Bay 3. We work weekdays only and do not run an on-call rotation. Site walks are Wednesday and Thursday mornings; you would shadow Marisol on three or four of these in your first month. After that you'd be doing your own greywater intake walks within ninety days.

Requirements

  • AZ ROC R-37R apprentice or journeyman card. We can take an apprentice with at least 2,000 documented hours; we strongly prefer a journeyman.
  • Comfortable with branched-drain layout from a verbal scope and a hand sketch.
  • Clean Class C driver's license; willing to drive a company pickup.
  • OSHA 10 (we'll pay for OSHA 30 in your first year).
  • Authorization to work in the United States.

Nice to have

  • Bilingual English/Spanish (about half our clients prefer Spanish for the site walk; Marisol and Daniel currently take all those walks, and we'd like to spread the load).
  • WMG co-op installer cohort completion.
  • Pima Community College plumbing program graduate.
  • Familiarity with Hunter X-Core controllers and Solar Sync ET sensors.
  • Prior PEX-A install experience (Uponor expansion tools, freeze-tolerance design).
  • Comfortable on a small ladder; not bothered by an attic in August.

Compensation

$28/hr starting for an apprentice with under 3,500 hours, $32/hr for a recent journeyman, $38/hr for a journeyman with five-plus years and a strong greywater portfolio. Five days, 36 paid hours per week (we do four 9-hour days and a half-day Friday for paperwork; the half-day is paid). Two weeks paid vacation in year one, three in year three, four in year five. Health insurance via the AZ marketplace with a $400/month employer contribution. Bonded under our policy. Tools provided (the kit lives in the truck). Pima College plumbing-program tuition reimbursed if you're advancing toward master.

How to apply

Send an email to hello@cienega-plumbing.example with: (a) your AZ ROC card status and hours, (b) three jobs you've done that you're proud of, with one sentence each, (c) a phone number we can reach you at on a Tuesday morning. Sandra reads every email; Marisol reads every shortlist. We typically respond within seven business days. We do an on-site interview at the Bay 3 yard, ninety minutes; you'd meet at minimum Marisol, Sandra, and Antón. If we make an offer, we make it within forty-eight hours of the on-site visit.

"The thing I tell every candidate at the on-site is that we're not building a fast-growing company. We've been eight people for three years. We will probably be nine for the next five. If you want to scale a sales operation, we are not it."— Marisol Reyes · 2026 conversation