Install Technician – Awnings, Shade Structures & Metal Fabrication

Canvas Craft | Otsego, MN $25–$30/hr | Full-Time | Home Every Night

The Job

You'll be part of a two-person crew installing custom awnings, shade structures, canopies, tension systems, and fabric shelters across the Twin Cities metro. Most days you're local — out in the morning, home by the end of the day. The work is varied: one day you're mounting a commercial awning on a storefront, the next you're rigging a shade sail at a restaurant patio or swapping seasonal covers at a car wash.

About once or twice a month you'll tackle a larger structural install that takes real problem-solving — anchoring into different building types, adapting to site conditions, making it work when the drawings and reality don't perfectly match. That's where the job gets interesting and where your mechanical instincts matter most.

Out-of-town travel is rare — roughly once a quarter for 3-4 nights. The rest of the time, you're in the metro and sleeping in your own bed.

During slower months, you'll cross-train and work alongside our shop team — welding, metal fabrication, sewing, facilities projects. You won't be sitting around waiting for the next install.

What We're Looking For

  • General construction, framing, roofing, siding, sign install, welding, or similar trades background

  • Comfortable working at heights on ladders and lifts

  • Can read a tape measure, follow a drawing, and figure things out on site

  • Mechanical aptitude — you look at how things go together and it makes sense to you

  • Clean driving record and valid driver's license (Class D)

  • Able to pass a DOT physical and drug screen

  • Reliable, shows up, communicates

Prior awning or shade structure experience is a plus but not required. If you've got a trades background and good hands, we'll teach you the rest.

What You Get

  • $25–$30/hr depending on experience

  • Health insurance

  • 401(k) with company match

  • Paid time off

  • All tools provided — bring yourself, we supply the rest

  • Company truck for job sites

  • Cross-training into welding, metal fab, and sewing — expand your skill set on our dime

  • Path to Crew Lead — we're building a second install crew and the right person will run it

About Canvas Craft

We're a 40+ year custom manufacturer in Otsego, MN — awnings, boat covers, shade structures, industrial fabric products. Small company, tight crew, real variety in the work. You're not a number here and you won't do the same thing every day.

Apply now to office@canvascraftinc.com or call us directly at (763) 428-4325 ext. 108.

Canvas Craft is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

A FEW THINGS WE VALUE AT CANVAS CRAFT

Prudence

We use our resources wisely and carefully. This relates to our suppliers, vendors, equipment, fellow employees, customers and facilities. This looks like good organization and a commitment to not being wasteful.

Positivity

We value the “Can Do” and “Always Helpful” attitudes. In a custom environment where the details of the work can change quickly. we strive to keep a positive attitude, being ready to help our team members get thru any challenge.

Teamwork

At Canvas Craft we love solving customer problems, so we constantly strive to work together as a team and collaborate. It’s “Together” that we solve some problems and innovate solutions in the canvas industry.