Journeyman - Projects, Mechanical

About the role

This position involves installing, maintaining, and servicing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, including boilers (steam and hot water), pumps, chillers (air and water cooled), cooling towers, heat exchangers (flat plate and tube in shell), hydronic air handling units, hydronic systems and accessories. Applied HVAC Technicians perform tests and analysis to ensure proper equipment functioning and provide recommendations to customers as needed.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot operating equipment and controls to ensure safe operation and lifecycle performance.
• Perform routine repairs such as pump seals and bearings.
• Inspect and test systems to verify compliance with plans or detect malfunctions.
• Determine customer concerns with current applied HVAC systems.
• Comply with applicable standards, policies, and safety procedures, maintaining a clean work area.
• Discuss heating-cooling system malfunctions with customers to isolate problems or verify corrections.
• Record and report faults, deficiencies, and unusual occurrences, including time and materials expended on work orders.
• Test pipe or tubing joints or connections for leaks.
• Adjust system controls to manufacturer-recommended settings to balance the system.
• Recommend, develop, or perform preventive or general maintenance procedures such as cleaning, power-washing, vacuuming equipment, lubricating parts, or changing filters.
• Install auxiliary components to heating-cooling equipment, including expansion and discharge valves, air ducts, pipes, blowers, dampers, flues, and stokers, following blueprints.
• Assist with other work in coordination with repair and maintenance teams.
• Install, connect, and adjust thermostats, humidistats, and timers.
• Generate work orders addressing deficiencies in need of correction.
• Connect pipes or tubing to equipment and to fuel, water, or refrigerant sources to form a complete circuit.
• Assemble, position, and mount heating or cooling equipment following blueprints.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 5 years of HVAC-level operation, maintenance, and repair experience in the HVAC and refrigeration trade.

Skills

• Knowledge of HVAC repairs, maintenance, and installation techniques.
• Knowledge of electrical circuits and wiring, operating principles of motors, and local electrical codes.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal teams and customers.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve problems, read and interpret blueprints, diagrams, schematics, and written reference material, and perform math.
• Ability to use hand and power tools.
• Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record.

Physical Demands

• Must be physically able to operate a variety of machinery and equipment, including electronic and diagnostic tools, recovery equipment, and various other HVAC equipment.
• Must be able to use body members to work, move, or carry objects or materials.
• Requires stooping, kneeling, crouching, climbing, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, seeing, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.
• Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently.
• Physical demand requirements are consistent with medium work.

Work Environment

This job operates primarily alone on HVAC and boiler equipment in all environments, which may include extreme cold or heat depending on the time of year. Vehicles are used as the base of operations.