Automotive Key Technician

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Position: Automotive Key Technician
Location: Houston, TX
Job : 2700
# of Openings: 1

Automotive Key Technician - Houston, TX

Do you consider yourself a car enthusiast? If you love driving around dealerships, auto auctions, and making keys for the newest rides, come work for Car Keys Express! We offer competitive wages, a Monday‑through‑Friday schedule, a company vehicle, a laptop, phone, and benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, 401(k) and PTO.

The Mobile Technician will support, grow, and maintain business relationships with dealerships and fleet operations in your metro area. You will develop and maintain a weekly sales route in your territory to maximize profits, manage inventory, maintain a company vehicle, perform audits, and keep accurate logs of sales stops. Candidates with 2‑5 years of automotive, cable installation, route sales, or related fields are ideal.

• Go‑getter attitude
• Sales and customer service experience (commission‑based sales experience preferred)
• Ability to work independently without constant supervision
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 21 years of age with a valid Driver’s license
• Familiarity with computers, e‑mail, and internet navigation
• Professional demeanor and appearance
• Safe place to park company van
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds, bend, stoop, squat, and stand
• Ability to enter and exit elevated van doors 30‑40 times daily
• Lift car hoods, disconnect batteries, enter/exit other vehicles
• Work in all weather conditions

• Adaptable: thrive when every day is different
• Automotive‑minded: comfortable in dealership environments and around cars
• Hands‑on and mechanically capable: approach challenges like a DIYer
• Connector: actively introduce yourself and explain how services solve customer problems
• Pioneering: develop and own your route, nurture accounts
• Self‑directed: productive and accountable without oversight

• Uncomfortable with strangers: role requires daily outreach to dealership staff and sales managers
• Technology‑averse: key programming relies heavily on specialized software
• 9‑to‑5 mindset: long days are part of the job
• Insensitive to elements: work outdoors in all weather, including hot summers and cold winters
• Sales‑averse: closing deals is core; not comfortable with prospecting and pitching
• Opposed to driving: extended time behind the wheel across a defined territory is daily reality
• Uncomfortable in a large vehicle: operate full‑size company van confidently
• Disconnected from automotive work: tasks like battery disconnects, panel removal, diagnostics routine

• 401(k) match
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance
• Company‑paid life insurance
• Paid vacations, holidays, personal time off
• Laptop, company phone, gas card, and company van

• Salary, commission and bonus structure
• Year 1 average: $62,440/yr; after first year: $81,320/yr

We’re looking for people eager to apply and challenge themselves. Ideal candidates are assertive, aggressive self‑starters who own projects, need little supervision and are ambitious. If you want to develop a skill set and take on additional responsibility, this is a rare opportunity.