Septic Service Technician
Job Description
Job DescriptionSalary: $18-$22/Hr DOE + Performance Pay
Septic Service Technician Summit Professional
Camano Island, WA A five-tier climb Full benefits after 90 days
You dont arrive at the summit. You choose it.
Every day. Every job. Every customer. The summit isnt a place you get assigned to its a decision you make, over and over, about how you show up when the work is hard and no one is checking.
Heres the job, in plain terms
The homeowner is the hero of every job. Theyve got a problem under their feet they dont understand, and theyre stressed about it. Youre the guide calm, certain, with a plan who makes it right and makes it make sense.
Your work is outside, on the property the tank, the lines, the system the whole house quietly depends on. Its the part of a home nobody sees and everybody counts on. When its working, a family never thinks about it; when it isnt, its all they can think about and youre the one who makes it right.
Youre responsible for the system not just the visit. Anyone can close a service call. A Summit Professional thinks a step ahead: what the system needs to last, and what the family should know before a small thing becomes a big one.
Ask a Summit Professional what they do for a living, and they wont say I pump tanks. Theyll say: a house without a working septic system is just a campsite Im the person who keeps it a home. Thats the answer. Thats the work.
This is not a service call. Its a trust call.
How we work four things we dont bend on
We dont sell we give people a clear choice.
You lay out the options Economy, Mid-Range, Premium with the straight truth, so the customer can make the decision thats right for their home and their budget. The choice is always theirs, and youre at peace whichever way they go.
We work for a mission, not commission.
No commission, no quotas pushing you to oversell a neighbor. Your pay climbs by proven skill, not by what you talk someone into.
We earn the right to be recommended.
One job, one customer at a time. A referral isnt asked for its earned by the work.
We train for your property, not on it.
We won't send you to fumble at the customer's home you'll learn alongside people who've done the work, and help turn it into the standard as we build it.
The one thing we cant train: belief
We require every Summit Professional to actually believe in this work. Not perform it believe it. Because a homeowner can tell the difference between someone reading a script and someone who means it, and so can the person next to you on the climb towards the summit. Conviction is what makes the trust call real its what makes the conversation believable, with a customer and with each other.
We can teach the skill. We cant install the belief. You bring that part.
The honest part (so you can choose with your eyes open)
Its physical. Outdoors rain, heat, cold. Some days youll work on the part of a home no one wants to think about. Youll be trained harder than anywhere youve been, held to a standard most companies wont set, and told the truth, plainly, when you miss it. The first 90 days are a test of whether you actually want this or only thought you did.
Most people wont choose this. We arent built for most people.
A word on where we are
We're small, and we're building our systems right now the training, the climb, the standards. You won't plug into a polished machine; you'll help build it, and the standard you're held to will partly be one you helped write. For the right person, that's the whole appeal: ground floor, real ownership, no bureaucracy. If you need a finished playbook handed to you on day one, this isn't your mountain yet.
What we've set our sights on
Were not trying to be the biggest septic company in the county. We exist to prove theres a better way better experience, better work, better people and to build something that outlasts the people who built it. Every job done right is evidence in that case. When you keep a familys home a home, youre not closing a ticket youre proving the thing were here to prove.
Thats the summit were climbing toward. The only question is whether its yours too.
Whats waiting if you choose it
Real skill a craft you can stand behind, not a placeholder job.
Pay that climbs by proof. No commission, no gimmicks raises at every tier, earned by what you can demonstrate, not how long youve been here. Certify a skill, and earn more the moment you can prove it. Already skilled when you apply and join? Prove it, and get an early bump in pay.
Full benefits after 90 days medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match.
No ceiling. Apprentice to Elite lead jobs, train the next climber, build the system. Performance pay turns on as the company hits its targets; when we win, you win.
The climb real, and earned by proof
You advance by documented, observable, measurable proof. No politics. No favorites. No guesswork.
Base Camp (30 days) Tier 1 Proving It Tier 2 Owns It Tier 3 Elevates It Tier 4 Multiplies It Tier 5 Elite. We're building the climb right now, and the first people through help shape it.
The climb is hard on purpose thats what makes reaching the next camp mean something.
Who a Summit Professional actually is
Forget the adjectives. Here is what it looks like in a real person. Read these and youll know if its you:
- You do the job the same way whether or not anyone will ever check it and youd rather kill the cause of a problem than be thanked for patching it.
- When something goes wrong on your job, you say Ive got it before anyone asks whose fault it was. You put your name on your work.
- When someone shows you a better way, you do it that way on the very next job not after the third reminder.
- You explain a septic system to a worried homeowner with zero jargon, and you dont stop until you can see they actually understand.
- When a teammate is buried and youve got room, you take part of the load before they ask. You dont leave a job or a person half-finished for the next climber.
It isnt about where youve worked. Its about how you show up.
Dont choose this if
You ease off when no ones watching.
You hear a correction and defend instead of adjust.
You go quiet when the work gets hard or the weather turns.
Youd rather close a big ticket than do right by the customer.
Good enough is good enough for you.
No hard feelings. Better we both know now.
The honest fine print Valid drivers license and a record that lets you operate a company service vehicle (driving is part of the job). Able to do the physical, outdoor, hands-on work described above lifting, digging, all weather. Willing to follow safety standards every time. We mean that: anyone here can stop an unsafe job, no permission needed, ever.
How to apply (5 minutes and we read every one)
Three steps. Each one shows us something we cant fake-test for:
1. Apply here in BambooHR.
2. Two written questions:
A time something went wrong that was on you and what you did about it. (This is how we see whether you put your name on it.)
The most useful correction youve ever gotten and what you changed because of it. (This is how we see whether youre someone who adjusts.)
3. A 3060 second video (phone is perfect paste the link): why this work, and why here? (This is how we hear what the work means to you, and how you explain something that matters.) Were not grading the lighting. Were listening for whats real.
If the summit is yours, you already feel it. So will we.
Aim for the Summit.
Envirotek is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire for the climb and we welcome every person ready to make it.