Swink Electric is hiring licensed service electricians in Palm Beach Gardens Florida. Our shop is less than 20 minutes from your area! Starting wage is anywhere from $29 to $36/hour, depending on your license and experience. There are other benefits as well, like a take-home van that you can use to get to and from work and be home for dinner every night. There will be no travel crews, no storm chasing, no sixty-hour workweeks in the Florida weather.
Applicants have many questions, which is a good thing. However, we will try to answer some of the more common questions here.
What is the Job?
Swink Electric is a residential and light commercial service contractor. Team members are expected to diagnose and fix real electrical problems in real houses and small commercial buildings across Palm Beach and Martin Counties — not pulling the same home run a hundred times in a building with no drywall.
What does a normal week look like?
- Troubleshooting – dead circuits, nuisance trips, failing devices, backfed neutrals, the stuff that takes an actual electrician to find
- Panel and service upgrades, including meter cans and service masts
- Chandelier Installations
- Condo and Home Remodels
- EV charger installations, which are growing every year
- Fixtures, fans, devices, remodels, and additions in homes people actually live in
- Commercial service calls for small business clients and HOAs
We handle customer calls, but you will be the face they see in their private homes and offices. We will be relying on you to diagnose the problem they are facing and provide them with a clear and easy-to-understand explanation before working on it. You get to be the person who figures out the problem and the solution for the customer.
Now for what the job is NOT
We are family-owned and operated; we prefer open communication.
- No out-of-state storm work. You will not live in a hotel.
- No travel crews. Every job is inside our service area, Palm Beach Gardens down to Boca Raton.
- No production new construction. We are not a tract builder’s rough-in crew.
- No mandatory overtime and no regular on-call rotation.
Schedule
Swink Electric is open Monday through Friday, with regular business hours. We do not do on-call rotations, though we should note that the nature of the trades is to handle emergencies as they come. Still, no set on-call rotation, and your weekends are yours.
Pay and Benefits (the good stuff)
Starting pay is almost entirely based on a few factors: your license, experience, and ability to work independently on service calls. However, the starting pay range is between $29 and $36 per hour, putting yearly pay between $60,300 and $74,900.
For context, the average Palm Beach Gardens electrician earns about $28.55 per hour, or $59,380 per year. We think one of the best ways to provide top-notch service is to have a top-notch team that is well cared for, with no revolving door around here.
Additional benefits include:
Take-home company van – fueled and stocked. Your commute is in our vehicle, not your truck, and you are not putting miles on your own vehicle to get to work.
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Performance bonuses
- A real path upward if you want it — lead electrician and beyond. We are a small enough team that the person who steps up is obvious, and we promote from within.
Why the Take-Home Van Matters if You Live in Palm Beach Gardens Florida
Our shop is about 20 minutes from Palm Beach Gardens, south of the airport. Allowing you to take the work van home means you don’t even have to stop by the office and then backtrack to your first jobsite.
You leave home, go to work, and at the end of the day you drive home. On the days your work is north of the shop, you may not even see the office at all.
What We Need From You
- Verifiable residential and commercial service experience – you can walk into an unfamiliar house and troubleshoot without a phone call for help
- A valid Florida driver’s license and a clean enough record to drive a company vehicle
- Your own hand tools
- The ability to talk to a homeowner like a professional. You are in their house. How you carry yourself is part of the job.
- Bonus points: Journeyman certificate of competency
- We are not hiring helpers or apprentices for this position. This is a role for an electrician who can run a service call independently from start to finish.
About Swink Electric
We are a family-owned and operated electrical contractor based in West Palm Beach and licensed in Florida. Doc and Amy own the business and run the office together. We intentionally keep the team small so we can focus on our team members individually, not on the team as a whole. Your name is known here, and so is your work.
Our tagline is “Powered by Professionals.” You are the professional.
Apply
If you are a licensed service electrician in or around Lake Worth Beach and this sounds like the kind of shop you have been looking for, we would like to talk.
- Apply online
- Call or text: 561-683-1512 — texting is fine; we know you are on a job site
- Email: admin@swinkelectric.com
The application takes about five minutes. If you have a journeyman card, mention it — it affects where you land in the range.
