Work at OCRV Empire

This is not automotive collision with bigger panels. On a typical week you might grind a cracked cap back to sound laminate and lay up a proper glass schedule, section a frame rail on a toy hauler, map a delaminated sidewall with a tap hammer and a moisture meter, pull a slide room to correct a bent rail, or form a panel for a coach whose manufacturer stopped making the part twenty years ago. There is currently a 1959 Flxible VL-100 in the shop next to current-year Sprinters and Rivians.

The variety is the appeal and it is also the difficulty. There is often no published procedure. Nobody wrote a repair manual for a 1978 coach with a wall that has been repaired badly twice already, so the decision about how to fix it comes from understanding materials and load paths rather than from looking it up. If that sounds frustrating, this is the wrong shop. If it sounds like the interesting part, keep reading.

Work here is organized around the stages a job passes through, and most technicians develop depth in one stage and working competence in the ones on either side of it. The list below is the shape of the shop rather than a list of currently open positions, which changes. If your skills fit any of it, get in touch regardless of what is posted.

People who are comfortable saying they do not know yet. On this work the honest answer at intake is frequently that the extent is unknown until the wall is open, and a technician who feels pressure to produce a confident number instead of an accurate one causes problems that surface three months later. The willingness to open something up and find out is the core habit.

People who document as they go. A photograph taken while the substrate is exposed is worth more to a claim than any argument made afterward, and once the panel is back on that evidence does not exist anymore. Technicians here are expected to photograph findings in place, and that is treated as part of the job rather than as paperwork attached to it.

People who came from automotive collision transition well, and that is a common path here. The preparation discipline, the refinish skill, and the measurement mindset all carry over directly. What has to be learned is materials: how a bonded panel behaves, how a layup schedule carries load, why aluminum and steel are welded to different procedures, and why a moisture meter decides more scope than a tape measure does.

Hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Saturday from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Everything happens at 23281 La Palma Ave in Yorba Linda. There is no mobile, field, or fleet route work, so this is not a job that involves driving to customer sites, and nobody is on call for after-hours dispatch. The work stays in the building.

Jobs here run long. A structural claim can occupy a bay for months while supplements are reviewed and discontinued parts are tracked down, which means the same technician often owns a vehicle from teardown through delivery. That continuity is deliberate. It produces better repairs than passing a coach between five people, and it means you see the consequences of your own decisions rather than handing them to someone else.

We are licensed by the California Bureau of Automotive Repair under ARD00288521 and registered with the EPA under CAL000367879. Hazardous material handling, waste disposal, and safety practice are taken seriously because they are conditions of operating, and because solvent and resin work in an enclosed space rewards discipline. Protective equipment is used rather than stored in a drawer, and shortcuts on ventilation or waste handling are not treated as a matter of personal preference.

We do not perform engine, drivetrain, or transmission work, and we do not perform DOT inspections. If your background is chassis mechanical and that is the work you want to keep doing, this shop will not give you enough of it to stay sharp. That is worth knowing before an interview rather than after a month. We would rather say it plainly now than have you discover it in week six.

What we do have is depth on the body and structural side across a range of vehicles that most shops never see. All years, all makes, all classes, from Class A diesel pushers down to enclosed cargo trailers, plus vintage restoration and current-model electric platforms in the same building. Technicians who want to build genuinely uncommon skills tend to find that more interesting than higher volume on familiar work.

Email info@ocrvcenter.com or call (714) 630-3766. Send a short note about what you have actually done rather than a formatted resume full of adjectives. Tell us the hardest repair you have completed and what you would do differently on it now, which tells us more in one paragraph than a job history does in two pages. Photographs of your own work are welcome and are read carefully.

If you hold welding certifications, refinish certifications, or platform-specific ADAS training, list them. If you do not hold any of them but you have done the work, say so plainly and tell us where. We are more interested in what you can demonstrate than in what is on a card, and the practical evaluation is the part of the hiring process that decides it.