Icon Rocklear Installer Trainee — Paint Protection Specialist
Tap And Shine Calgary
Calgary, AB
Full-time
Pay: $18–$24/hour starting, with a structured pathway to higher compensation based on performance, skill progression, and successful completion of company training milestones.
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About the Opportunity
Tap And Shine Calgary is looking for a hungry, disciplined, detail-obsessed candidate to train into one of the rarest automotive protection roles in Calgary: Icon Rocklear Installer.
We are not looking for someone who already knows how to install Icon Rocklear. Almost nobody does.
We are one of the only shops in Calgary with access to the product, install process, and training pathway. That means the right person has the opportunity to learn a rare, high-value skill inside one of Calgary’s fastest-growing automotive protection studios.
This is not a normal detailing job.
This is a growth-track role for someone who wants to become elite at paint protection, paint correction, coating preparation, quality control, and eventually Icon Rocklear installation.
If you want to be average, this is not the role for you.
If you want to be trained, challenged, held to high standards, and given the opportunity to become one of the few people in Calgary trusted to install one of the world’s toughest paint protection coatings, keep reading.
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Why Join Tap And Shine?
Rare Skill Pathway
You will have the opportunity to train toward becoming an Icon Rocklear installer — a rare and specialized paint protection coating that is far beyond normal ceramic coatings.
This is a chance to build a skill set most detailers, coating installers, and automotive workers in Calgary do not have access to.
Fast-Growing Company
Tap And Shine has outgrown two locations in its first 18 months and has recently expanded again into a bigger location. We are growing quickly, but we are still a lean, high-standard team where every person matters.
Performance-Based Growth
Raises and advancement are earned through performance, consistency, attitude, quality, communication, and successful completion of internal milestones.
The right person can grow into:
- Certified Icon Rocklear Installer
- Senior Installer
- Leadership roles
- Higher compensation opportunities
- Future performance-based incentives
Serious Tools, Serious Standards
We invest in quality tools, training, systems, and processes. But tools only matter when the person using them has the discipline to do things properly every time.
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What We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone who is:
- Hungry to learn and improve
- Obsessed with doing things properly
- Coachable and open to correction
- Reliable and consistent
- Strong with communication
- Takes initiative to become the best, not just fit in
- Comfortable following checklists and processes
- Proud of clean documentation and quality control
- Physically capable of hands-on automotive work
- Interested in becoming exceptional, not just employed
This role requires someone who understands that the small things matter.
Daily updates matter.
Quality Control photos matter.
Work order documentation matters.
Team handoffs matter.
Final inspection matters.
Cleanliness matters.
Being reachable and accountable during working hours matters.
We are not looking for someone who does great work only when being watched. We are looking for someone who wants to build a reputation for being trusted.
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This Role Is Not For You If
Please do not apply if:
- You think 80–90% effort is “good enough”
- You need to be constantly reminded to complete updates and tasks
- You skip documentation when the shop gets busy
- You dislike checklists, photos, QC steps, or work order notes
- You take feedback personally instead of using it to improve
- You move slowly without urgency
- You cut corners when nobody is watching
- You are looking for an easy detailing job
- You do not want to be held to high standards
We are a small, fast-moving team. Missed details create problems for client, the install team, the admin team, and the company.
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Required Qualifications
- Valid Class 5 driver’s license
- Comfortable driving customer vehicles
- Experience with exterior detailing
- Experience with paint correction, polishing, and wetsanding
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong work ethic and reliability
- Ability to follow written and verbal instructions
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and work on your feet
- Comfortable bending, kneeling, crouching, and working around vehicles for extended periods
- Strong interest in automotive protection, detailing, coatings, paint correction, PPF, tint, or related work
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Preferred Experience
The following experience is preferred but not mandatory for the right candidate:
- Ceramic coating application
- PPF prep
- Shop, dealership, or production environment experience
- Working with checklists, photos, work orders, or quality control systems
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Daily Responsibilities
Vehicle Preparation
- Wash and decontaminate vehicles properly
- Clay bar and chemically decontaminate painted surfaces
- Dry vehicles thoroughly using proper methods
- Mask trim and sensitive areas before polishing or coating work
- Prepare vehicles and workspaces for protection installs
Paint Correction & Surface Prep
- Assist with polishing and paint correction
- Use compounds, polishes, pads, and machines properly
- Learn proper surface preparation standards for coatings and Icon Rocklear
- Maintain a clean, contamination-controlled work area
Icon Rocklear Training Pathway
Depending on performance, consistency, and successful completion of milestones, you may be trained toward:
- Icon Rocklear prep standards
- Application process
- Product handling
- Quality control
- Final inspection
- Client-ready delivery standards
Icon Rocklear installation training is earned through trust, not given automatically.
Quality Control & Documentation
You will be expected to complete:
- Work order updates
- QC checklists
- Required vehicle inspection documentation
- Progress photos
- Final photos
- EOD updates
- Group chat job handoffs when required
These are not optional. They are part of the role.
Shop Support
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment
- Support installers with vehicle prep and workspace setup
- Clean tools, equipment, and work areas
- Assist with general shop maintenance as needed
- Help the team keep jobs moving on schedule
Compensation & Benefits
- Starting pay: $18–$24/hour depending on experience, attitude, and capability
- Performance-based raises
- Milestone-based advancement opportunities
- Opportunity to grow into higher-paying installer roles
- Overtime opportunities when available
- Retention bonus eligibility after successful probation
- Company-provided training
- On-site parking
- Company lunches and team events
- Employee discounts
Probation & Training
This role includes a 6-month probation period.
During probation, we will evaluate:
- Work quality
- Speed and efficiency
- Coachability
- Attendance
- Proactiveness
- Urgency
- Communication
- Documentation habits
- QC consistency
- Ability to follow systems
- Team fit
- Overall growth potential
The goal is not perfection on day one. The goal is consistent improvement, strong attitude, and zero tolerance for careless shortcuts.
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How To Apply
When applying, include a short cover letter answering the following:
- Why do you want to become an Icon Rocklear installer?
- What hands-on automotive experience do you have?
- Tell us about a time you had to follow a strict process with no shortcuts.
- Are you comfortable completing daily work order updates, QC photos, inspection documentation, and EOD updates?
- Why should we trust you with high-value customer vehicles?
Applications without these answers may not be considered.
Pay: $18.00-$30.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Why do you want to become an Icon Rocklear installer, and what makes you confident you can handle a high-standard, process-driven install role?
- We work on high-value customer vehicles. Why should we trust you with them? Give a specific example from your work history that proves your attention to detail, responsibility, or integrity.
- Once your primary tasks are complete for the day, what would you do next without being asked? Please give a specific example of how you stay productive when there is downtime.
- This role requires daily work order updates, QC photos, inspection documentation, group chat handoffs, and end-of-day updates. Are you comfortable being held accountable to these every shift? Explain how you personally stay organized and consistent.
Experience:
- paint correction: 3 years (required)
- wetsanding: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
