Air Quality Technician 2 - 20024351
Job ID: 20024351 | Organization: Rehabilitation & Correction — Chillicothe Correctional Institution | Contact: Personnel Director, 740/774-0033, DRC.CCIRecruit@drc.ohio.gov | Location: 15802 State Route 104, Chillicothe, OH 45601 | Union: OCSEA | Classified
About the role
Guided by a single mission “To reduce recidivism among those we touch,” the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction believes that everyone is capable of positive change. Our staff embrace these core values and serve as role models for pro-social behavior conveying an attitude of dignity and respect in the treatment of others. The department has been tasked with front-line crime reduction through rehabilitative treatment and programming efforts provided in a safe, secure, and humane correctional environment and effective community supervision. The goal is to protect the public by helping individuals turn away from crime and become productive, contributing members of our communities, ensuring a safer Ohio for all Ohioans now and in the future.
Responsibilities
- Serve as lead worker (e.g., provide work direction and training) over lower-level air quality technicians and/or incarcerated individuals engaged in installation, preventative maintenance, maintenance, and repair of HVAC systems
- Perform highly skilled maintenance and installation work on HVAC equipment
- Periodically inspect operation of equipment; perform preventative maintenance schedules as assigned
- Repair air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating systems
- Replace or repair pumps, fan motors, thermostats, and filters
- Weld metal
- Inspect and test installed equipment for proper assembly of components and check for needed repairs
- Determine and complete materials needed, cost estimates, and submit requests to purchase
- Read blueprints and/or schematic diagrams
- Maintain inventory of HVAC supplies
- Maintain tool count of tools used by incarcerated individuals (e.g., complete tool control forms daily, maintain strict inventory of tools)
- Perform other maintenance and/or miscellaneous duties (e.g., semi-skilled carpentry, painting, electrical, sheet metal, HVAC)
- Ensure compliance with security regulations
- Serve on institutional committees
- Attend training, seminars, and/or meetings
- Perform security functions as required (e.g., man-down, shakedown, inmate movement)
- Perform other duties as assigned (e.g., snow and ice removal and grass cutting)
Qualifications
- Appropriate type (Type I, Type II, Type III, or Universal) of certification as 'technician' issued by EPA-approved certifying organization per Section 608 of Clean Air Act
- 6 months verifiable experience in heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration maintenance, repair, and installation
- 1 course or 3 months experience in blueprint reading
- 1 course or 3 months experience in hand and power tool operation
- 1 course or 3 months experience in minor welding operation
- OR 6 months experience as Air Quality Technician 1 (52291) with appropriate EPA Section 608 technician certification
- OR equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above
Skills
- General Maintenance
- HVAC Trade
- Building Maintenance
- Trades
- Problem Solving
- Flexibility
- Time Management
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Free dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
- Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays per year
- Childbirth, adoption, and foster care leave
- Education and development opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
- Public retirement systems (OPERS, STRS, SERS, HPRS) and optional deferred compensation (Ohio Deferred Compensation)
Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors; the agency contact can provide specific benefits information for this position.
Pay
$25.61 per hour
Schedule
Permanent, full-time