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.
Read next
- Hands — who you'd be working with.
- GWY-1 · Greywater — the subsystem you'd lead.
- About — the longer practice profile.