Lead-HVAC Refrigeration Mechanic

About the Role

Ensure safe and proper supervision, monitoring, operation, and maintenance of assigned facilities and equipment. Perform HVAC Refrigeration Mechanic duties in addition to lead duties. Review designs, provide recommendations, and oversee proposed facility modifications, additions, and expansions.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive technical service and support, ensuring safe and proper supervision, monitoring, operation, and maintenance of applicable facilities and related equipment.
• Lead preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repairs, adjustments, calibration, and testing of equipment campus-wide; maintain accurate records for all systems and work.
• Review designs, provide recommendations, and oversee proposed modifications, additions, and expansions.
• Act as a liaison with different departmental teams within the institution.
• Understand and use relevant facilities management procedures and processes to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Supervise cleanliness throughout the facilities and maintain accurate records.
• Ensure a safety-focused mindset in all aspects of the position; deliver exceptional customer service.
• Ensure all building automation system monitoring, operations, and maintenance comply with policies, procedures, and federal, state, and local regulatory agency requirements.
• Train and guide team members on complex activities within your area and address escalations or deviations.
• Perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Successful completion of a Refrigeration training program or equivalent.
• 6+ years of experience in A/C Refrigeration in a hospital or related environment.
• Experience applying a comprehensive range of principles, concepts, and practices concerning mechanical equipment, facility, and service operations.
• Strong experience monitoring and utilizing relevant facilities maintenance tools and equipment (e.g., pumps, gearboxes, motors, refrigerators, HVAC).
• Experience leading and coordinating facility maintenance, repairs, and renewals.
• Strong experience with Computer Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) preferred.
• Strong experience with Building Automation Systems (BAS) (e.g., Metasys); good understanding of applicable building systems (e.g., steam, chilled water, compressed gases, heat exchangers, HVAC).
• Basic proficiency in MS software and end-user proficiency in CMMS software.
• Proficient in hospital policies and departmental procedures, preferred.

Qualifications

• EPA Refrigerant Recovery Certification required.
• Refrigeration Engineer First Class License from Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement required.
• Steam Engineer First Class License from Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement required.

Skills

• Breaks down complex problems into elements, prioritizes, and works on them in an organized way.
• Willing to challenge existing assumptions where relevant.
• Consistently generates innovative approaches to address needs and problems.
• Good knowledge of standards, guidelines, and regulations pertaining to facility operations and maintenance.
• Performs a wide variety of duties in support of operations and maintenance of facilities.
• Demonstrates physical fitness and ability to work in a stressful environment.
• Uses active listening skills to encourage two-way communication.
• Able to present complex technical information to a mixed audience effectively.
• Proactively connects with cross-functional peers and superiors with purpose, effectiveness, and sensitivity.
• Promptly and effectively responds to customer queries and requests.
• Explores creative and well-researched solutions for customer needs.
• Prioritizes responses to customer queries; escalates or redirects effectively for quicker resolution.
• Clarifies responsibility and accountabilities for delivery of complex deliverables or processes.
• Clearly articulates scope, activities, resources, timing, and contingencies while remaining flexible in the face of unforeseen issues.
• Focuses on ways to improve quality and efficiency within the area.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently required to talk or hear and taste or smell.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• Must move about the workspace to access work surfaces and shelves, cabinets, drawers, and equipment at, below, or above the work surface.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $29.00 - $50.50 per hour.

Benefits

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