H&R Trains
Employment Opportunities

If you would like to work in a family oriented, smoke free, drug free, workplace, with our dedicated team of professionals, we would like to talk with you. We can offer full or part time long term employment in a fun place to work, with benefits and paid vacations for full time employees.

Our community has consistently been rated as one of the ten best places to live and work in the United States. Its no wonder with our wonderful year round weather. There are beautiful beaches, marinas, numerous city and county parks, many miles of bicycle trails, canoe trails, hiking trails, and year round golf. Our Florida west coast - Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater area is a thriving community that is still much more relaxed and laid back than Orlando or Florida's east coast cities.

H&R Trains is Florida's largest train store, and is now the second largest Train Store in the USA, with over 32000 separate train related products. We have won numerous national and local awards, and our customers tell us that we rank among the best in the world. If you would like to be part of our award winning teem, we would like to talk with you. Call Don Morris at: 727-422-8544 or you can send me an E-mail at: don@hrtrains.com with your contact information or other questions. For more information about H&R Trains see About Us

We are always looking for Energetic Smiling Faces to join our team of dedicated professionals. Some of the areas that we currently or most frequently have openings for are listed below.

Currently Available Positions

A full time Customer Service / Sales Associate

We currently have a need for both an additional full time and an additional part time Repair Technician.

We are also looking for an individual for full time data entry to help with our E-Commerce Shopping Cart on our Web - Site.

Part tine Teaching Opportunity for Little Engineers Club

See General Requirements Below

Full time Customer Service / Sales Associates - General Requirements: Sales experience with good people skills and a willingness to learn and work as an H&R Trains team member. These positions are full time permanent positions.

Part time Customer Service / Sales Associates - General Requirements: Sales experience with good people skills and a willingness to learn and work as an H&R Trains team member. These positions are part time permanent positions and can be tailored around your availability.

Full time Repair Technician - General Requirements: Train repair technician for long term employment in well equipped shop. Candidates must have excellent mechanical aptitude, proficiency in soldering, and be able to read and understand electrical diagrams and engineering drawings. Duties include routine preventative maintenance, trouble shooting and repair of model trains, and transformers. You will also do installations of Digital or other command control electronics. You may also be asked to help with installation and service of both privately owned and commercial Train layouts. For more information about our Repair Shop click here.

Part time Repair Technician - General Requirements: Train repair technician for long term part time employment in well equipped shop. Candidates must have excellent mechanical aptitude, proficiency in soldering, and be able to read and understand electrical diagrams and engineering drawings. Duties will include routine preventative maintenance, trouble shooting and repair of model trains, and transformers. You will also do installations of Digital or other command control electronics. You may also be asked to help with the installation and service of both privately owned and commercial train layouts. This is a part time permanent position and can be tailored around your availability. For more information about our Repair Shop click here.

Full time Data Entry to help with our E-Commerce Shopping Cart on our Web - Site - General Requirements: Data entry experience with emphisis on inventory control and E-Commerce / Web Site input and maintenance. Must have basic digital photography experience in order to input photo and thumnail of inventory items on site. Retail sales experience would be a plus, with good people skills and pleasant, outgoing personality. This position will require you to receive new merchandise into inventory prior to entering into the E-Commerce site. You may also be asked to help with other duties such as retail sales using out point of sale system when the need arises. A good knowledge of model railroading merchandise and model railroading in general would also be a plus.

Full time Bookkeeper - General Requirements: Bookkeeping experience including: Quick Books accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, P&L, daily banking, good people skills and a willingness to learn and work as an H&R Trains team member. This position is a full time permanent position.

Part time Model Railroad Builder - General Requirements: Must have good understanding of the process of planing, building, and maintaining Model Railroads. Woodworking or carpentry skills along with electrical skills such as wiring a layout and it's accessories and soldering skills are all important. A basic understanding of scenery techniques and materials is important. Including working with Styrofoam, hydrocal, molding plaster, rock molds, ground cover materials, and other scenery materials is also a plus. Air brushing skliis would be a plus. Garden railroad construction experience is also a plus. This position would require assistance in building railroads for both private as well as comercial layoouts for our customers both locally and also away from the local area.

Part time Teaching Opportunity
We are looking for a retired teacher or perhaps a parent of one of our Little Engineers who would be interested in teaching our little engineers class one Saturday each month. If you are interested or you know someone who may be interested, you can call me (Don Morris) on my cell at 727-422-8544 and I will be glad to fill you in on all the details.

I really always enjoy teaching the class myself but it is difficult to find a Saturday that I am not working on our Web-site, Building one of our Bridgewerks Bridges for a customer or I am building one or more railroads for some of the many customers that have asked me to help them build their layout.

For further information please contact Don Morris by way of Email: don@hrtrains.com or call me on my cell at: 727-422-8544 or on one of our other contact numbers on our About Us page.


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