Job Description Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Installs, connects, and adjusts thermostats, humidistats, and timers, using hand tools.
- Repairs or replaces defective equipment, components, or wiring.
- Joins pipes or tubing to equipment and to fuel, water, or refrigerant source, to form complete circuit.
- Fabricates, assembles, and installs duct work and chassis parts, using portable metal-working tools and welding equipment.
- Tests electrical circuits and components for continuity, using electrical test equipment.
- Disassembles system and cleans and oils parts.
- Assembles, positions, and mounts heating or cooling equipment, following blueprints.
- Tests pipe or tubing joints and connections for leaks, using pressure gauge or soap-and-water solution.
- Installs auxiliary components to heating-cooling equipment, such as expansion and discharge valves, air ducts, pipes, blowers, dampers, flues, and stokers, following blueprints.
- Adjusts system controls to setting recommended by manufacturer to balance system, using hand tools.
- Inspects and tests system to verify system compliance with plans and specifications and to detect malfunctions.
- Discusses heating-cooling system malfunctions with users to isolate problems or to verify malfunctions have been corrected.
- Repairs & Troubleshooting to Chillers, Cooling Towers, RTUs
- Inspects inoperative equipment to locate source of trouble.
- Studies blueprints to determine configuration of heating or cooling equipment components.
- Lays out and connects electrical wiring between controls and equipment according to wiring diagram, using electrician's hand tools.
- Reassembles equipment and starts unit to test operation.
- Measures, cuts, threads, and bends pipe or tubing, using pipe fitter's tools.
- Cuts and drills holes in floors, walls, and roof to install equipment, using power saws and drills.
Apprentices shall perform all duties listed above under the guidance of a journeyman mechanic combined with on-the-job training and any additional schooling as required.
Requirements:
- High school education/G.E.D. with schooling in trade industry.
- Universal CFC certification required.
- At least 4 years of experience in the HVAC industry.
- Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions and deal with problems involving machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance.
