HVAC Service Pre-Apprentice

About the role

Primarily responsible for performing repairs and maintenance to a variety of equipment including refrigeration, air conditioning, electric motors, heating units, heat pumps, compressors, light commercial furnaces, boilers, burners, intake and exhaust fans, economizers, and humidifiers.

Responsibilities

• Check in with office for scheduled jobs after the completion of each job and at the end of each workday.
• During and or at the end of each task fully complete all company provided forms possible.
• Responsible for time management of jobs scheduled each day.
• Check in with client at the beginning and end of each task to make sure they are aware of everything going on throughout the entire visit.
• Absorb client signature on company provided forms where applicable.
• Upon completion of each task record time spent at each job on the weekly time sheet.
• Hand in paperwork, checks, or cash at the end of each week for processing.
• Avoidance of handing in vendor packing slips or invoices for each job.
• Call in repairs to the estimator or field supervisor and provide the necessary info needed to quote the repair and fill out the appropriate quote forms as required.
• Consult field supervisor or dispatcher in times of uncertainty.
• Answer all office pages/calls in a timely manner.
• Check in as needed to ensure office dispatcher and/or field supervisor are aware of your status.
• Secure parts and tools needed throughout the day for various jobs as required.
• Ensure all materials used for each task are listed properly on the company provided forms.

Qualifications

• Understands basic refrigeration cycle to include identifying components in refrigeration circuit, understanding how each component works, diagnosing problems in the refrigeration circuit, using manifold gauge set, pressure/temperature chart and temperature measuring devices for routine maintenance and to troubleshoot.
• Understands refrigeration recovery, evacuation, and charging.
• Understands basic electron theory, how electricity travels, AC and DC currents, single phase and three phase circuits, and series and parallel circuits.
• Ability to read basic wiring diagrams.
• Understanding of Ohms Law.
• Ability to use multi-meters to read voltage, current and resistance values.
• Must be able to troubleshoot basic electrical circuits.
• Understands the process of treating air to simultaneously control its temperature, humidity, and distribution.
• Must be able to read and understand mechanical drawings.
• Understands basic heating cycle to include identifying components in heating system, understanding how each component works, diagnosing problems in the heating system using a gas pressure test and other devices for routine maintenance and to troubleshoot.
• Understands the theory of combustion and how it relates to combustible fuels such as gas and oil.

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• To adequately perform the duties of this job, the employee is regularly and routinely required to sit, stand, walk, kneel, squat, stoop hands to finger, handle controls; hear, and talk.
• The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must be able to climb ladders, work in hot and cold environments, and work in small crawl spaces.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move 50lbs and up.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• The work environment can vary depending on the season and scope of work - employees are required to work outdoors throughout the seasons.
• The work environment will subject employees to continual interruptions and changing priorities.
• Effective, consistent, and constant communication with customers, vendors, co-workers, and others is required.