An immediate position is open to assist the School District Maintenance Department.  This is a full time 12 month position with all associated benefits.  

Position Summary

The HVAC Technician is responsible for performing repairs and maintenance to a variety of equipment including:  refrigeration air conditioning, electric motors, heating units, heat pumpsP, hermetic compressors, commercial furnaces, boilers, burners, intake and exhaust fans, economizers, humidifiers, capacity controls, semi-hermetic compressors, split systems, flame safeguard controls, air compressors, air driers, and packaged units throughout the district.

Duties and Responsibilities – Other duties may be assigned by the Facilities Manager or the Deputy Superintendent

• Analyze, Plan, and Perform Preventive Maintenance of HVAC System throughout the district.
• Plan shutdowns for maintenance and repair pumps including chill water, hearing water, and condensation pumps.
• Troubleshoot, repair and make modifications to HVAC System
• Adhere to all city, state, and federal regulatory statues.
• Order and maintain parts needed to repair and maintain HVAC Equipment.
• Manage relationship with all major vendor accounts.
• Properly maintain and safeguard district assets.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Special Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Able to read electrical schematics and mechanical blueprints.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to run copper piping and PVC
• Ability to organize work and meet deadlines
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to wire routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all unit of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Understands and has mastered the refrigeration cycles to include: identifying components in advanced refrigeration circuits, understanding how each component works, diagnosing and correcting problems in the refrigeration recovery, evacuation and charging, understands the installation and sizing of refrigerant piping.
• Understands refrigeration recovery, evacuation and charging, understands the installation and sizing of refrigerant piping.
• Understands and has mastered the heating cycle to include: identifying components in heating system, understanding how each component works, diagnosing problems in the heating system using a gas pressure test and other devices for routine maintenance and to troubleshoot and repair.
• Understands and has mastered electron theory, how electricity travels, AC and DC currents, single phase and three phase circuits, and series and parallel circuits. Ability to read advanced wiring diagrams, knowledge of Ohms Law.  Ability to use multi-meters to read voltage, current and resistance values.  Must be able to troubleshoot advanced electrical circuits. 

    Understands and has mastered all types of HVAC systems and how each component within the system operates in conjunction with the other components and how that impacts the overall operations of the system as a whole.  These systems include but are not limited to air cooled, water cooled, and hot water systems, chilled water systems, VAV systems, steam heating