HVAC Mechanic, Senior

Job Summary

Bring your skills to a hands-on role maintaining and repairing HVAC systems and helping develop new staff.

Departmental Preferences

Experience/Training in a healthcare or research setting preferred.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education/Training - High school diploma with coursework in skilled crafts.
• Experience - 4 years of broad-based experience in: charging small refrigeration appliances; changing compressors, belts and valves; and adjusting and calibrating temperature and humidity controls.

Work Performed

• Maintain, repair and/or replace HVAC systems and equipment in hospital, medical or research facilities.
• Perform periodic preventive maintenance on HVAC systems and equipment.
• Complete required documentation including work order forms, inventory/order forms, and corrective/preventive maintenance documents.
• Maintain, adjust, modify and perform major overhaul and repair of refrigeration and air conditioning systems.
• Charge all types of refrigeration equipment.
• Provide technical guidance and direction to lower-level personnel. Assist in training new staff members.

Physical Demands

• Regularly walks.
• Frequently reaches with hands and arms above and below shoulder level, stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls.
• Frequently lifts, pushes, and/or pulls up to 35 pounds, occasionally lifts, pushes, and/or pulls up to 50 pounds or more.

Work Environment

• Exposure to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.
• Noisy environment.