$25-35 per hour
$52K-$72K Annual Full Time
+ Overtime + Bonuses
– Posted August 28, 2025
Job Highlights
- Top Industry Pay
- 2+ years of experience required
- Paid training, IICRC
- Opportunities for advancement
- Great Benefits, Up to 23 paid days off per year, health, dental, vision insurance
- Employee owned business – profit sharing
What does a Lead Restoration Technician do at MSB?
We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Restoration Technician to take on a role as a Lead Technician. The ideal candidate will have a passion for helping others and a strong background in the restoration industry. This role involves responding to various restoration needs, including but not limited to water damage, fire damage, and mold remediation. As a Lead Restoration Technician, you will play a crucial role in restoring properties to their pre-damage condition, ensuring safety and satisfaction for our clients. You will be responsible for crews on job sites to ensure projects are completed safely and efficiently.
Why Join MSB? MSB Disaster Recovery Services is one of the hidden gems in the restoration industry serving Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. We are an employee-owned company which means you will be one of the owners when you join our team. You’ll share in company profit sharing bonuses too.
Looking to make a difference in the world? MSB strives to make the difficult time of property damage more pleasant, more efficient, faster, and less stressful for each customer. Water and fire damage creates a very difficult time for many of our customers. Your role is to make this time better for them. If you’re a caring person that wants to make a difference in people’s lives when they need it most, you’ll love working at MSB.
Looking to deliver work that makes you proud? If you have a strong pride in your work quality and are truly committed to delivering world-class service to each customer, MSB is the company for you. If you thrive when working around others that dedicate themselves to doing the work right and working with others you can call your friends, MSB is the company for you. If you are irritated working around slackers, you’ll love it at MSB because everyone here works hard to get the job done efficiently with the highest quality.
Looking for a career and not just a job? MSB has a career path that allows you to move up in the company. We pay for your IICRC trainings and certifications, including the time you’re in classes. We are on a steady and sure path for growth and have seen our company grow in revenue and people for many years. As we grow we will need Supervisors, Project Managers, Estimators and more. Plus we also have 2 other divisions – Contents and Reconstruction – where you might want to work.
Looking for steady and dependable hours? At MSB work rarely slows down because of the variety of customer types that depend on us. Additionally, when we do have a slow period, we get caught up on warehouse duties and trainings. Our goal is to minimize or eliminate the need to send people home due to lack of work. While we can’t tell the future and therefore can’t always guarantee is, this is a very important goal we are committed to achieving. If you demand steady and dependable work, MSB is your company. Good people depend on their steady paychecks, and MSB is dedicated to having good people.
Compensation and Benefits Summary:
- Paid training & Certification
- Referral program
- Great culture and team dynamic
- Hourly pay: $25.00 to $35.00/hour based on experience and certifications
Qualifications (Requirements):
- Desire to join a world-class team and contribute a positive attitude
- Dedication to customer service
- Fluent in English
- Valid driver’s license with a clean record
- Have the ability to work nights/weekends and overtime, if needed
- Ability to lift 75 LBS frequently
- Desire to continually learn new things
- Industry experience & knowledge
- Ability to use iPad to document project progress, crew sheets and more.
Abilities Needed:
- Knowledge of restoration processes related to fire damage and water damage.
- Proficiency in using power tools and hand tools for building and repair tasks.
- Understanding of safety regulations within the restoration industry.
- Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Excellent communication skills for client interactions.
- Willingness to learn new techniques and stay updated on industry standards.
- Experience and Passion for being a Leader on a team
- OPTIONAL/HELPFUL: IICRC Certification is helpful if you have that. We do pay for training to obtain this certifications.
- Ability to lift heavy equipment.
- We love hiring people that are also work well with co-workers and our customers. Positive customer reviews are very important to our entire company.
- Ability to keep teammates on track throughout the projects.
- Strong communication skills with our customers.
- Have a sense of urgency while maintaining a high level of quality workmanship. (Speed is very important after a property damage).
- A great work ethic and teamwork attitude is vitally important. Working together with your team allows us to give the best service to our customers.
- You must be able to communicate, read and write in English. Spanish speaking is also a valuable skill, but not required.
- You must have a clean driving record (no prior DUIs) to drive our company vehicles.
- You must pass drug testing and a background check.