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Careers and Sub-Trade Work With Avis Builders and Design
Sub-trades and skilled tradespeople across Santa Clara County and the greater Bay Area.
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Avis Builders and Design is a licensed general contractor in San Jose, California, working across Santa Clara County and the greater Bay Area. The company holds CSLB #1142220, classification B, General Building, current and active on the state register, carrying a $25,000 bond and workers' compensation coverage through the State Compensation Insurance Fund. This page is written for the people who do the work: sub-trades and skilled tradespeople who arrive with their own tools, their own crew, and their own standard for what finished looks like.
Start with what this page will not do, because that is worth more to a tradesperson than paragraphs about culture. No numbered roles are listed below. No pay ranges are published here, and no benefits list either. So this reads as a standing invitation rather than a job board. Work on a remodeling book opens as project volume allows, and no start date is promised on this page. What this page does is tell you where to send your trade and your details. How an introduction is handled after that is a question to put to the company, not something a web page should answer for it.
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The work itself is residential remodeling. Whole-home remodels, kitchens, bathrooms, accessory dwelling units and room additions, decks, pergolas and gazebos, flooring, interior painting, exterior siding and painting, window and door installation, landscaping, and the 3D design and planning that happens before anyone swings a hammer. Some jobs are a single room. Some are a whole house on a permit, with plan review and inspections attached, running for months. Some are outdoor work that has nothing to do with the inside of the house at all. The trade mix changes job to job, which is exactly why a general contractor keeps a bench of trades rather than one crew that does everything badly.
Avis works as a service-area business, so the job is at the property and the drive is part of the day. Eight towns have their own page on this site: Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Los Gatos, Campbell, Cupertino, Saratoga, Mountain View and Los Altos. San Jose is the home city and is covered across the main pages rather than on a town page of its own. Milpitas, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City and Fremont are covered as well.
If you already run in that footprint, you know the traffic, the parking, and the difference between a Los Gatos hillside lot and a flat San Jose tract lot with a detached garage. That local knowledge is part of what a general contractor is buying when it calls a trade.
There is a standard behind the work, and it is checkable rather than asserted. Avis is rated 5.0 on Google. It is an accredited business with the Better Business Bureau. It is a TrexPro certified builder, which matters if decking is your trade, because composite work gets held to the manufacturer's detail and not to whatever went up on the last job. For a sub-trade, all of that translates into one practical fact: the finish gets looked at, by a homeowner who reads reviews and writes them.
Then there is paperwork, and it is better to raise it plainly than to spring it later. Have your own credentials to hand: your CSLB classification and number where your trade carries one, current workers' compensation coverage where people work for you, and a certificate of insurance for your business. A general contractor cannot verify a document it has never been shown, and the permit, the inspection sign-off and the homeowner's contract all sit behind the general building license, so whoever is on site is working under it. What Avis asks a sub-trade for, and to what limits, is worth confirming directly rather than reading off a web page.
If that all sounds like your kind of work, the route in is short. Email info@avisbuildersanddesign.com or call (408) 208-0551, say what your trade is, and include the details listed further down this page. A note that says what you do, where you work, and what you have already built is worth more than a form filled out against a role nobody has posted.
The trades this suits
Framers and finish carpenters, because additions and accessory dwelling units start with structure and end with trim, stairs and cabinetry. Tile setters, because bathrooms live or die on waterproofing and layout. Electricians and plumbers, for kitchen and bathroom rough-in and for the panel and supply work behind a remodel. Painters, for interior repaints with real prep and for exterior siding work. Landscapers, for the yard that has to look finished once the house does. Deck builders, for composite and framed decks, railings, stairs, pergolas and gazebos. If your trade is on that list, or sits beside it on a remodel, this page is aimed at you.
The paperwork worth having ready
Your own license in your own classification, where your trade requires one. Your own workers' compensation coverage, if anybody works for you. A current certificate of insurance for your business. The first two are standard for any licensed general contractor in California to want to see, so having all three to hand means a conversation can start at the work instead of stalling on documents. What Avis requires of a sub-trade, and to what limits, is a question to put directly rather than to read off this page. If something is mid-renewal, say so plainly; a date is easy to work around, a surprise on the morning of a start is not.
Why the license on the job matters
The license on the job is the general contractor's. The permit is pulled behind it, the inspector signs off against it, and the homeowner's contract names it. Everyone working on that site is working under CSLB #1142220, and a homeowner can look that number up on the Contractors State License Board's public license lookup. Where a trade on the job cannot produce coverage for its own people, the exposure tends not to stay with that trade, which is why documents get raised early rather than late. It is also why the trades who do carry their paperwork are not left competing against the ones who do not.
Remodels happen in houses people live in
Most of this work is not a bare shell. There is a family on the other side of the plastic, using a kitchen that is half demolished and one bathroom instead of two. Dust control, protecting floors on the way in and out, parking where the neighbors can still get by, and leaving the site clean at the end of the day are part of the trade on a remodel, not favors. So is talking to a homeowner without committing anybody to scope that has not been priced. If someone asks you for a change, the answer is to route it back to the general contractor.
How to send your information
Email info@avisbuildersanddesign.com and say what your trade is, or call (408) 208-0551. Attach what you have rather than describing it: photos of finished work, a license and classification if your trade carries one, coverage documents, and the towns you cover. If you would rather talk than type, call and say which trade you are, then follow up with the documents afterwards.
What this page does not promise
No role is listed here with a title and a rate attached, and no timeline is offered for when one might be. On a project book, a trade gets called when a job needs that trade, and pretending otherwise on a careers page is how tradespeople end up chasing an opening that was never open. What is true is that a specific introduction is easier to act on than a generic one, and that the way to make one is the email address and the phone number on this page. What happens after it lands is a question for the company rather than for a web page.
If you run a one-person shop
Say so, and say it early. A solo finish carpenter and a painting outfit with four people on payroll are useful for different jobs, and the paperwork behind them is different too, so the honest answer makes the fit easier to judge rather than harder. The same goes for scale in the other direction. If you can staff two houses at once, that is worth writing down.
What to send
- Your trade, in plain words, and what you actually do on a remodel.
- Your CSLB classification and license number, if your trade carries one.
- Your business name, and whether you work solo or run a crew.
- Current workers' compensation coverage, if you have people working for you.
- A certificate of insurance for your own business.
- The towns you cover, and how far out you are willing to drive.
- Photos of recent work, or a link to where your finished work already lives online.
- General contractors you have worked under, and someone who will vouch for the work.
- Your availability, and whether you want one project or ongoing work.
- Whether you bring your own tools, truck and crew, or work off what is on site.
- How you price: by the day, by the square foot, or by the job.
- The best number to reach you on, and whether you prefer a call or a text.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions: careers
Do you have open positions posted on this page?
No role is listed here with a title and a rate attached, and no start date is promised. Work on a remodeling book opens as project volume allows, which is why this page is an introduction route rather than a job board. Send your trade and your details to the email address on this page, or call and ask directly what is coming up.
Do I need my own license to work with you?
If your trade carries its own CSLB classification, have the classification and the number ready when you get in touch. Avis Builders and Design holds CSLB #1142220, classification B, General Building, and that is the license the permit and the inspection sit behind. What your particular trade is required to hold is a question for the Contractors State License Board rather than for us, and their public license lookup is where to confirm it.
What does the pay look like?
Rates are not published on this page. Money gets discussed directly, against a real scope on a real project, so bring your rate and say how you price, whether that is by the day, by the square foot or by the job. A number posted in the abstract would only mislead one of us.
Which towns would I be working in?
Eight towns have their own page on this site: Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Los Gatos, Campbell, Cupertino, Saratoga, Mountain View and Los Altos. San Jose is the home city and is covered across the main pages rather than on a town page of its own. Milpitas, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City and Fremont are covered as well. Avis works as a service-area business, so the job is at the property, and the drive is part of the day.