HVAC General Foreman

About the role

Set standards and drive outcomes across multiple crews, customers, and projects. Build a customer and team-centric culture to respond and resolve disputes following CCMS CARE values.

Responsibilities

• Forecast and level manpower with service coordinator and general manager to meet schedule and quality.
• Lead program-level safety: set cadence, review trends, conduct stand-downs, and ensure JHAs and lockout/tagouts are complete and accurate.
• Direct mobilization for larger scopes; review drawings, SOP, manuals, phasing, and plan rigging and cranes.
• Oversee startup and commissioning quality, documentation, completeness, and final turnover across projects.
• Remove roadblocks, resolve escalations, and align priorities with customers, operations, leadership, and vendors.
• Build the bench: coach foremen, journeymen, apprentices, and tradesmen through ride-alongs, reviews, and targeted training.
• Pull through generation: proactively identify maintenance, repair, retrofit, and replacement opportunities; develop scopes of work and pricing with sales and operations to close work, keep crews utilized, and build a rolling backlog.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success leading multiple crews on complex commercial/industrial HVAC.
• Depth in HVAC, hydronics, controls, and safety requirements.
• Strong planning, communication, customer and team leadership, and documentation skills.
• Commercial acumen: demonstrated ability to surface opportunities, prepare scopes and quotes, and close pull-through work.
• Valid Driver’s License, clean driving record, and insurability.
• Organization, accountability, and customer service.

Qualifications

• Positive industry reputation.
• Represent CCMS with professionalism and responsiveness at all times.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers, manufacturers, distributors, sales representatives, inspectors, fellow technicians, and team members.
• Model respectful communication, honest diagnostics, and accurate documentation that reinforces trust in yourself, your teams, and CCMS.
• CARE for customers and team members.

Skills

• Planning and communication.
• Customer and team leadership.
• Documentation and commercial acumen.
• Safety and compliance (JHAs, lockout/tagout).

Benefits

• Company vehicle and gas card for business use.
• Company phone and corporate card for approved expenses.
• Paid holidays and PTO.
• Pull-through incentive plan.
• Annual factory trainings.

Growth Path

Opportunity to advance to Sr. General Foreman or Field Operations Manager.

Culture

CARE Culture:

• C - Communicate & Commit: Come prepared, communicate proactively, use facts and root-cause thinking, and contribute to continuous improvement.
• A - Act With: Safety, integrity, accountability, and honesty in all tasks and records.
• R - Relationships: Demonstrate teamwork, trustworthiness, organization, preparation, respect, engagement, resourcefulness, and critical thinking; invest in coworkers, customers, and partners.
• E - Eliminate: Assumptions, drama, excuses, and egos. Replace with clarification, verification, ownership, and solutions.

Vision: Lead with CARE by delivering customer and team-centered service that transforms HVAC asset management from reactive to predictive. Create a future where uptime, reliability, longevity, and efficiency are consistently achieved through proactive solutions.

Mission: Prioritize customers and team members with a strong commitment to meaningful outcomes. Through thoughtful, prepared, and proactive service, eliminate the disruption of unplanned outages. Maximize uptime and safety while reducing lifecycle costs and minimizing environmental impact.

FAQs

• Who is eligible for the pull-through incentive program? Journeyman or higher are eligible. Apprentices may be eligible on a case-by-case basis when designated as lead technician on a dispatch.
• Is this union work? Yes, roles are union and dispatched per local requirements.
• Can apprentices and entry-level tradesmen apply? Yes, we hire for both and coordinate with union apprenticeship requirements where applicable.
• What equipment will I see? A wide range, including air and water-cooled chillers, heat pump chillers, packaged and split systems, VRV/VRF systems, controls, pumps, VFDs, and more.
• Do you provide a vehicle? Yes, we provide a company vehicle, gas card, company phone, and corporate card for approved expenses when required.
• What about paid time off and pull-through incentives? We offer paid holidays, PTO, and a pull-through incentive plan.
• What is the culture really like? Professional, prepared, and supportive, rooted in the CARE standard: Commit and Communicate, Act With safety and integrity, build Relationships, and Eliminate assumptions and excuses.