Building Service Engineer - (Building Service Engineer, Range 1) - Mechanical Maintenance

About the role

The Building Service Engineer is responsible for the maintenance and repair of heating, ventilation, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, refrigeration, air conditioning, and water systems. This role involves performing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and responding to service requests.

Responsibilities

• Tests, adjusts, and calibrates boiler and air conditioning machinery and mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and microprocessor control instruments.
• Lubricates, cleans, prepares, and paints mechanical systems, machinery, and piping as part of corrosion control for preventative maintenance.
• Maintains swimming pools mechanical pumping, filtering equipment, and chemical balancing and oversight.
• Repairs and replaces bearings, shafts, seals, rings, and electrical wiring and installs central system parts, gauges, valves, and pipes which require the application of journey-level skills in one or more of the appliable trades.
• Completes scheduled maintenance of tasks of cleaning/replacing filters, calibration of controls, and functional tasks to ensure continuous operation of equipment including: Regularly uses features of building automation systems to diagnose and troubleshoot problems in the HVAC systems while optimizing energy usage.
• Maintains logs of maintenance and repairs using manual and computerized record-keeping systems.
• Reports problems and needed repairs to supervisor to be documented and scheduled.
• Responds promptly to, and assists with, urgent needs in order to prevent injury, damage or further incident.
• Maintains clean work areas, tools, equipment and associated structures.
• Uses protective equipment as required for personal safety.

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of high and low pressure boilers, and heating, pneumatic, ventilating, air-conditioning, refrigeration and other mechanical equipment.
• Thorough knowledge of the methods, tools and materials used in the operation, maintenance and repair of such equipment.
• General knowledge of ventilation principles, thermal dynamics, and closed water systems.
• Working knowledge of energy management systems including the ability to understand and use system features.
• A general knowledge of the applicable state and federal safety codes and regulations pertaining to mechanical and HVAC systems.

Qualifications

• Two years of journey-level experience in the operation, maintenance and repair of boilers, heating, ventilating, refrigeration and air conditioning equipment and systems or the equivalent combination of formal course work in mechanical technology and hands-on experience.
• Completion of an appliable apprenticeship program preferred.
• Ability to proficiently use computerized building automation systems to diagnose overall building performance and troubleshoot problems.
• Ability to provide instruction to unskilled and semi-skilled assistants; analyze and respond appropriately to emergency situations.
• Ability to operate various motorized vehicles and forklifts; use scaffolds, ladders, compressors and pneumatic tools; use a variety of power, hand and machine tools and test instruments; computer and office equipment, precision tools and measuring instruments.
• CPO (Certified Pool Operations) Certification for pool oversight.

Skills

• Read, interpret and work from blueprints, plans, drawings and specifications.
• Make rough sketches.
• Estimate cost, time and materials of mechanical work.
• Prepare standard reports.
• Perform arithmetic calculations as required by the position.

Benefits

San Francisco State offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pension, 401k, Healthcare Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Vacation and Sick Leave, State Holidays, and a dynamic Fee Waiver program. Additionally, the position is exempt from the H1-B visa sponsorship requirement.

Pay

The anticipated hiring range is $5,998.00 - $6,188.00 per month ($71,976.00 - $73,416.00 annually), commensurate with experience, education, skills, and training.

Schedule

The position is full-time (1.0 FTE) with a work schedule of Monday to Friday - 7:00am to 3:30pm.