Job Description
Performs skilled tasks in the diagnosis, mechanical repair, maintenance, and calibration of air conditioning, heating, refrigeration, and domestic hot water equipment and control systems. Incumbent exercises the use of independent judgment in the evaluation of HVAC systems and the recommendation of repairs.
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:
-Performs Preventive Maintenance tasks such as checking equipment operation, cleaning, lubrication, changing filters, adjusting, and repairing HVAC equipment and controls, etc., consistent with the Manufacturer’s Equipment Operation and Repair Manuals and contemporary standards of good practice.
-Responds to temperature complaints, diagnoses problems, identifies solutions, and makes necessary adjustments to assure adequate indoor air quality is maintained. Keeps constituents informed in a timely manner.
-Calibrate/adjust/repair/replace temperature, humidity, and air equipment and control devices such as chillers, boilers, pumps, cooling towers, evaporative coolers, condensing units, fan coil units, air handlers, exhaust fans, thermostats, sensors, humidistats, relays, timers, pneumatic controls, electric (digital) controls, electronic controls, damper motors/dampers, switches, air compressors, PE switches, traps, valves, EMS data gathering panels, fire stats, DDC devices, and other related control devices.
-Uses diagnostic equipment and line diagrams to troubleshoot problems and identify solutions.
-Advises supervision on upgrading/replacement needs of systems and related components and assists in the development of recommendations for their purchase.
-Installs new systems and system components.
-Responds to various maintenance complaints, troubleshoots problems, identifies solutions and resolves.
-Effectively plans and performs in a multi-task environment and meets self or pre-imposed objectives and deadlines. Exercise the use of independent judgment.
-Maintains an effective working relationship, both