The HVAC Technician is responsible for performing installs, repairs and maintenance to a variety of equipment including: refrigeration, air conditioning, electric motors, heating units, heat pumps, hermetic compressors, commercial furnaces, boilers, burners, chillers, intake and exhaust fans, economizers, humidifiers, capacity controls, semi-hermetic compressors, split systems, flame safeguard controls, air compressors, air driers, and packaged units.
Reports To: Service Area Team Leader
Responsibilities
· Analyze, Plan, and Perform Preventive Maintenance of HVAC System throughout the district
· Plan shutdowns for maintenance and repair pumps including chill water, heating water and condensation pumps.
· Troubleshoot, repair and make modifications to HVAC System · Adhere to all city, state, and federal regulatory statues
· Maintain maintenance records as required by City, State, and EPA regulations
· Order and maintain parts needed to repair and maintain HVAC Equipment
· Manage relationship with all major vendor accounts
· Daily oversight of safety policy and programs
· Safety Record, zero head, hand, eye, and fall injuries
· Schedule management – Meet/exceed schedule milestones
· Assist and participate in job cost at completion studies to improve future estimates
· Provide technical support as needed
· Participate in recruiting program
External Relationship Development:
· Manage and cultivate existing business relationships to secure and expand recurring revenue streams.
· Publicly represent Mechworks with external constituency groups including community, governmental, and private organizations and build excitement for Mechworks mission.
Special Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Able to read electrical schematics and mechanical blueprints
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
- Ability to run copper piping and PVC
- Ability to organize work and meet deadlines.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to wire routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all unit of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Understands and has mastered the refrigeration cycles to include: identifying components in advanced refrigeration circuits, understanding how each component works, diagnosing and correcting problems in the refrigeration circuit, using manifold gauge set, pressure/temperature chart and temperature measuring devices for routine maintenance and to troubleshoot.
- Understands refrigeration recovery, evacuation and charging, understands the installation and sizing of refrigerant piping.
- Understands and has mastered the heating cycle to include: identifying components in heating system, understanding how each component works, diagnosing problems in the heating system using a gas pressure test and other devices for routine maintenance and to troubleshoot and repair.
- Understands and has mastered electron theory, how electricity travels, AC and DC currents, single-phase and three-phase circuits, and series and parallel circuits. Ability to read wiring advanced wiring diagrams. Knowledge of Ohms Law. Ability to use multi-meters to read voltage, current and resistance values. Must be able to troubleshoot advanced electrical circuits.
- Understands and has mastered the fundamentals of temperature and humidity measurement and control in air conditioning units. Understands the process of treating air so as to simultaneously control its temperature, humidity, cleanliness and distribution. Ability to use a psychometric chart to determine the results of mixing air having various properties.
- Understands and has mastered all types of HVAC systems and how each component within the system operates in conjunction with the other components and how that impacts the overall operations of the system as a whole. These systems include but are not limited to air-cooled, water-cooled, hot water systems, chilled water systems, VAV systems, steam heating systems and building automation control systems.
- Knowledge of Advanced heat load/loss calculations
- Knowledge of Advanced cooling load calculations Basic computer understanding and operation skills
- Normal work day 7:00am -5:30pm. Available to work before and after normal working hours as needed/scheduled
- Good problem solving and communication skills
- Understanding of applicable federal, state, local and company regulations.
· Ability to work independently and as part of team.
- Knowledge of Windows operating systems
Special Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
· Teamwork – Completing our projects and building trust with each other, our partners, and our customers
· Honesty – Doing the right thing
· Quality – Providing workmanship that exceeds expectations
· Safety – Training and reinforcement that value a safe work environment
· Balance – Maintaining a healthy balance between work and home life
Qualifications and Educational Requirements
· EPA Universal Certification
· HVAC Certification
· 5-10 years of experience as an HVAC Technician
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Ability to lift and/or carry moderate weight (15-50 pounds), sit, stand, walk, climb stairs, reach, repetitive hand motions, hear, speak, some travel, may experience prolonged and irregular work hours, and work with frequent interruptions.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $25.00 - $32.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- On call
Supplemental pay types:
Experience:
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Work Location: Multiple locations