What are the responsibilities and job description for the Template Technician position at DTK Stoneworks?
Template Technician (Dimensional Stone)
DTK Stone Works, Inc. — Wheeling, IL
Full-time | Field-based, out of our Wheeling shop
Reports to: Operations Manager/Owner
Company vehicle provided. Job sites across Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin, and Northwest Indiana. Overnight travel comes up occasionally. We talk it through with you when it does.
About the Role
DTK Stone Works has fabricated and installed stone since 2005. We run a 20,000-square-foot shop in Wheeling, doing residential kitchens and baths plus commercial work — offices, hospitality, retail, bar tops, reception desks, and multi-unit projects. As a Template Technician, you own the measure. You go to the site, capture the real field conditions, and produce the digital template the whole job gets built from. Every cut we make downstream comes from your file. An accurate template means a clean install. A bad one costs a slab and a callback.
Your day starts at 7 am. Your appointments come from the scheduler, so you know your route. Some mornings start in the shop — finishing drawings from the day before, or squaring something away with the guys on the floor before you head out. Then you're in the field. Saturdays come up when the workload calls for it. When something's off track, you catch it and fix it before anyone has to ask.
Compensation
Base salary: $65,000 – $80,000, depending on your field experience and where your drafting skills are when you start.
Incentive: up to $500 per month, paid quarterly. It's tied to two things — the throughput target you set with your Operations Manager, and your remake rate. Hit your throughput and keep template-error remakes under 1.5%, and you earn it. Miss the accuracy number and the volume bonus doesn't pay, no matter how many jobs you ran. Fast is worth nothing here if it isn't right.
Year one, hitting targets: $71,000 – $86,000.
This is a templater's base with a drafter's scope. You're not handing off a field file for someone else to finish — you take it through CAD, out to the client, and into the shop. That's why the range starts where it does.
What We Offer
A real path to Measure Lead. We're building toward someone who owns measure — takes the complex jobs himself, sets the standard the other techs work to, and answers for how the department executes. If you have the technical depth for hard work and you want more than a truck route, that's the seat. It's not a someday promise. It's the reason this role is scoped the way it is.
No layers between you and the decision. You report to the Operations Manager and the owner. When the schedule doesn't work, or a process is broken, you say it to the people who can change it, and it changes that week. We're 25 people. There's nobody here to file a request with.
The truck, the fuel, and the gear are on us. Company vehicle for every route, gas on a company card, and a tablet in the field. You run the Laser Products LT-2D3D. Nothing comes out of your pocket, and you're not fighting equipment to do your job.
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance after 90 days. Paid holidays and PTO. Retirement with a match up to 3% — plenty of shops our size don't offer one at all.
Salary : $65,000 - $80,000