HVAC Certified Mechanic

About Us

We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, and more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values—H.E.A.R.T (Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork)—drive everything we do. We empower our talented team, engage our communities, and adhere to Planetree’s philosophy of patient-centered care.

The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital, a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

About the Role

Certified HVAC Mechanic responsible for performing installation, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and repair on all steam generation units, absorption systems, reciprocating systems, cooling towers, air handling and water delivery systems, fans, and pumps to ensure uninterrupted operation of the cooling system and supporting equipment.

Responsibilities

• Diagnoses problems, orders parts, repairs, services, and maintains equipment that uses freon as the basic cooling vehicle.
• Develops solutions to installation and maintenance problems.
• Services and repairs pneumatic controls and associated equipment.
• Reads and uses blueprints, schematics, specifications, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings to effect repairs; works from oral, written, and electronic work orders.
• Installs portable air/water-cooled refrigeration units, ice machines, and walk-in boxes.
• Fabricates and installs metallic and non-metallic parts.
• Inspects equipment regularly as part of a preventive maintenance program and conducts required tests to anticipate malfunctions; lubricates, adjusts, and cleans equipment as directed.
• Determines cause of breakdowns; removes, disassembles, cleans, and lubricates all component parts as appropriate.
• Removes and replaces worn or broken parts and reassembles and adjusts cooling units.
• Performs major rebuilding work on absorption/reciprocating equipment and supporting systems.
• Repairs or salvages defective components.
• Determines type and quantity of chemicals required to keep cooling systems operational and uses them appropriately.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
• Prepares bills-of-materials to order replacement parts in a timely manner to avoid prolonged shutdowns.

Schedule: Rotating weekends and weekdays, 7:00 AM–3:30 PM (times may vary), 37.5 hours per week.

Requirements

• High school graduation or equivalent required.
• Graduation from a trade school with specialization in refrigeration mechanics required.
• Section 608 EPA Universal Certified required.
• Certificate of Qualification/Fitness for Refrigerating System Operating Engineer (Q01/Q99) preferred—must be obtained within one (1) year of employment.
• Certificate of Fitness to Operate Air Compressor (G35) required—must be obtained within ninety (90) days of employment.
• Certificate of Fitness for Hot Torch Work (G60) preferred.
• 5 years’ experience in a similar position.
• Thorough knowledge of operational theory and ability to make mechanical repairs as required in this trade.
• Ability to follow verbal instructions and select/use tools appropriate to repairs.
• Ability to read and use blueprints, schematics, specifications, and mechanical drawings.
• Good oral and written communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills.
• Speaks, reads, and writes English to the extent required by the position.

Pay

Pay Range: USD $48.65 - USD $49.18 per hour (transfer rate: $50.72).