Light Installation Technician (Seasonal, Paid Training)

Published: 6/14/2022

Construction

Job Description

We’re hiring Exterior Lighting Installation Technicians to install Christmas lights and permanent house lighting on homes across greater Boston and the North Shore. Paid training, paid weekly, $25 to $38 per hour.

What you’ll do:

Install exterior lighting from ladders on one and two story homes
Christmas light installs: C9 roofline lights, ground lights, and mini lights, mounted with clips (no drilling)
Permanent lighting installs: aluminum track systems and individual permanent lights mounted on trim
Run low-voltage wiring and set up power supplies and controllers
Match each design mockup exactly and take before and after photos on every job
Fix outages during the season and take down and pack lights after it

What you need:

Comfortable and safe working at height on ladders. This is the most important requirement.
Able to lift and carry 50 lbs and work outside in cold weather
Reliable transportation to job sites
On time, every time

Big plus: experience in roofing, gutters, painting, siding, or holiday lighting, and any low-voltage or wiring experience. No experience? We train you.

How pay works:

3 days paid training at $20/hr.
After that you earn $15/hr base for every hour on the clock, plus production pay for every light you install.
You and your crew partner track your installs on every job and sign off on each other’s numbers.
Most techs land around $28/hr. Top performers earn $38/hr and up.

Schedule: seasonal, starting now. Weekdays and some Saturdays. Full time or part time.

Year-round positions are offered to top performers

Lots of space for promotions into crew lead and operations manager

\nCompany Description

New England Christmas Lights designs and installs exterior lighting for homes and businesses across greater Boston. We offer full service Christmas light installation, where we supply the lights, install them, maintain them all season, take them down, and store them. We also install permanent architectural lighting that stays on the home year round. We’re known for premium, clean work, and we build our team around people who are careful, reliable, and proud of what they install.