Career Opportunities

We service Maine and New Hampshire. We try to keep our techs working in their own geographic area as much as possible, but the nature of the work means any given project could send you elsewhere in the service region. Installers and field techs see more of that than office or sales staff.

Yes, on an as-needed basis. That’s mostly for installers and field technicians working on bigger projects that take them out of their usual area. It isn’t the norm, but when it happens, we provide the hotel accommodations and per diem.

In short: No. Our industry is highly specialized, and work is in high demand.  

Not required, but there’s a list of basic hand tools you will need as you work your way through the program.

Entry level for someone right out of high school with no experience is around $22 an hour.

Experienced hires coming in with credentials or time in the trade start higher. A licensed sprinkler fitter, for example, is $30 and up, and seasoned folks are well into the 40s.

Pay will scale with your apprenticeship progress and certifications.

The apprenticeship has four books, and you get a $1/hour bump for each book you complete.

After the books, you work toward NICET certifications. NICET Level 1 adds $2/hour, NICET Level 2 adds another $2. So a new hire with no experience who works through the program can see an $8/hour raise inside of two years, sometimes faster.

Beyond that, licensed sprinkler fitters are $30+ and senior field techs are in the 40s.

You start in the shop for the first week or two, learning how to thread pipe, groove pipe, and identify parts and pieces. Once you’ve got the fundamentals, we pair you with an experienced fitter or lead foreman, and you work alongside them on contract install jobs. Around nine months in, you start on your books. Over the next year or so you finish your four books and work toward your NICET certifications. Inside of a year or two from that point, you’re typically ready to run your own work.

The short answer is YES; there may be the occasional time when weekend work or night shift work is necessary.  

Because we are in a service industry as well, we work in all sorts of commercial environments—sometimes, facilities experience maintenance shutdowns, so our schedule can vary.  We may need to be in a facility on weekends when their equipment isn’t running to perform our work.  We also may need to do the work during a night shift.

Also, we are a 24/7 service industry. Eventually, when you become a competent fitter, you are placed on the “on-call” rotation schedule for a week, where you would be responsible for responding to any service-related emergency calls for that particular week.

Additional details:

• We provide a shift differential in pay for night work 
• We provide an on-call bonus for the week you’re on call as well as the week before when you’re back up for the person who is on call.

Health insurance is paid 100% by Maine Fire. That doesn’t come out of your paycheck.

Short-term and long-term disability are also paid 100% by the company, not deducted from your check.

Spouse and dependent coverage is subsidized at 50%.

On top of that, there’s a secondary insurance layer that covers a significant portion of deductibles. In practice that means most employees’ worst-case out-of-pocket for a major medical event is capped in the low thousands rather than being truly open-ended.

There’s also an annual allowance for dental, vision, and other out-of-pocket medical expenses. Employees use it for things like new glasses, dental cleanings, and similar costs.

Other benefits include a boot allowance and full company-paid apprenticeship training and certification costs.

When we talk about investing in our people, that’s one of the concrete ways it shows up.