HVAC TECHNICIAN

About the role

Join a dedicated team serving as the backbone of our County’s infrastructure. We are seeking a skilled HVAC Maintenance Technician to ensure the comfort and safety of our community by maintaining critical climate systems in public facilities, including our library, historic courthouse, and administrative buildings.

Responsibilities

• Installs, maintains, troubleshoots, diagnoses, and repairs commercial mechanical, air conditioning, heating, and ventilating equipment, and control systems
• Installs equipment such as fuel and water supply lines, air ducts and vents, pumps, condensers, blowers, motors, and other parts of the mechanical systems
• Performs preventive maintenance (including filter replacement) and routine inspections including adjustment of system controls, burners and blowers, leak checks, and overall performance testing
• Reviews plans and provides feedback to engineers on installation and upgrades
• Maintains records of work performed to include safety inspections, parts and materials used/ordered, equipment failures and repairs, and logs of temperature, pressures, voltages, and combustion efficiency
• Trains, coaches, and mentors subordinates
• Carrries out designated procedures for seasonal start-ups and shutdowns
• Moves office furniture as needed
• Removes snow from County property

Qualifications

• Education equivalent to a high school diploma supplemented with 5 years HVAC experience, apprentice-level vocational training program or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job
• Must possess satisfactory results of a criminal history background check
• Must possess and maintain a valid Virginia driver’s license
• Must possess and maintain a Universal Refrigerant Recovery License
• Must possess and maintain a journeyman’s or masters level HVAC license through the Virginia Department of Professional Occupation and Regulation (DPOR)

Skills

• Knowledge of standards practices, methods, tools, and materials common to the HVAC trade
• Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions of the trade
• Ability to plan perform work of the trade at the Journeyman-level
• Operates a variety of machinery, equipment, meters, and tools as required common to the trade
• Reads and interprets drawings, blueprints, wiring diagrams and schematics
• Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge of applicable laws/regulations
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing
• Follows oral and written instructions
• Performs other maintenance duties as required

Benefits

• Full-time employees have access to a wide variety of benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, life insurance, optional life and disability insurance plans, flexible spending accounts, and a deferred compensation program.
• The County of Culpeper provides a basic life insurance plan for all eligible employees. The coverage amount is an employee's annual salary, rounded up to the next highest thousand, then multiplied by 2. The County pays 100% of the cost of this benefit.
• The County offers two (2) medical plans: an HMO & an HSA.
• The County offers three comprehensive dental plans for employees and their eligible dependents.
• The County offers a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) that allows employees to set aside up to $2,500 annually, on a pre-tax basis via payroll deductions, to pay for eligible medical, dental, or vision expenses.
• The County offers a Dependent Care Assistance Program that allows employees to set aside up to $5,000 annually, on a pre-tax basis via payroll deductions, to pay eligible dependent care expenses.
• The County offers a 457 as another alternative to set aside money for retirement.