Why restoration work deserves a dedicated job board
Type “restoration” or “mitigation” into a general job site and you get furniture refinishers, habitat projects, auto body shops and janitorial routes mixed in.
An owner who needs a second water tech before storm season is buried under that clutter, and a crew lead hunting for a better shop has to dig past listings that have nothing to do with drying a structure.
On this board, each opening involves restoring a damaged property, whether the job is extraction after a pipe burst, soot cleanup after a kitchen fire, containment for mold, or a pack-out of a family's belongings.
Two restoration jobs with the same title can turn out to be very different once you read the posting.
A mitigation tech on a 24/7 on-call rotation, a mold remediation worker inside containment, an asbestos worker on a licensed abatement job and a contents tech running a pack-out may all be called technicians, yet the hours, gear and rules differ.
That is why listings, pay pages and career guides here are grouped by the actual role and type of loss, not just by whatever title an employer happened to use.
Who runs this site
My name is Gabriel Meierotto; I started RestorationHires, and nothing goes live here until I have read and approved it.
To be upfront: I have never worked as a restoration technician, estimator or project manager. I have not run a mitigation job or owned a restoration company, I hold no IICRC certification or abatement licence, and this site is not connected to any franchisor, certifying body, trade group or state licensing office.
Please do not read anything here as safety, licensing or legal advice.
My job is running the board itself: putting restoration openings in front of people who can do the work, and making sure each listing is clear and easy to read.
When a page discusses certifications, state licences or pay, it points to the certifying body, the state office or the public wage data it draws on rather than my opinion.
If you have a question about your own licence, certification renewal or exam, ask the state office or certifying body that issued it.
Where the restoration listings come from
Independent restoration companies, franchise locations, regional and national restorers, abatement contractors and recruiters can publish their openings here themselves.
The board also gathers restoration jobs that companies have already posted on their own careers pages or in public job feeds.
Every gathered listing points to the employer's original post, so your application goes straight to the company that is hiring, with nobody in between.
Only one paid option changes placement, and that is Featured, which adds a badge and lists the job ahead of Standard posts on its role and location pages.
Nothing else an employer buys moves a job higher in the results.
How our career guides are checked
Techs and career changers use certification paths, state licence rules and pay figures to decide where to go next in restoration.
A single mistake could send a reader to a course they never needed or toward an offer that underpays the work, so the guides stick to these rules:
- Statements about certifications, state licences or safety rules link to the certifying body or agency that sets them.
- Pages about a single state display the date their facts were most recently verified.
- Pay figures come from BLS OEWS data and name the occupation code used, because federal codes do not separate restoration technicians from related trades.
- Changes to rules, such as state mold licensing laws or federal overtime thresholds, are summarized with a source and never framed as safety or legal advice.
A “reviewed by” line appears on a page only when a named, credentialed restoration or abatement professional has actually gone through it.
We do not make up reviewers, and we do not attach credentials to writers who do not hold them.
Use each guide as a starting point while you think through your next move in restoration.
For anything specific to your own credential, such as continuing education credits or a licence renewal date, check with the body that issued it.
Found a mistake?
Standards get revised, state licence rules shift, wage data updates every year and restoration jobs get filled fast, so some pages here will fall out of date.
Email [email protected] with the page address and the sentence that looks wrong, and I will look into it and correct it.
Techs, estimators and PMs who are on losses every week tend to notice changes first, so corrections from the field are especially welcome.