Heating Plant Technician
About The Position
The Heating Plant Technician maintains heating operations at development locations, operating heating and domestic hot water boilers and monitoring heating equipment. The role maintains, adjusts, repairs, inspects, and tests boilers, industrial oil burners, heating and domestic hot water equipment, and associated auxiliary systems. Duties also include standing watch and firing low-pressure boilers, assembling or dismantling heating equipment, scheduling tank inspections, responding to heating and hot-water service disruptions, troubleshooting heating matters, and keeping required logs and reports. When assigned to a roving team in the Operations area, the technician responds to emergency dispatches and performs minor repairs to heating systems and related equipment to address alarm conditions, particularly abnormalities involving steam and hot water. The technician drives to assigned and emergency work locations throughout the five boroughs, transports necessary equipment, checks the assigned vehicle's operating condition, reports routine servicing needs, and completes equipment and activity reports. Work shifts rotate and include nights, weekends, and holidays.
Requirements
- Six months of full-time satisfactory experience operating and maintaining low- and/or high-pressure boilers and related equipment; alternatively, the posting lists one year of satisfactory education or training in an approved trade school, vocational high school, or technical school, with a major course of study in boiler operation and maintenance combining classroom and boiler-room instruction; or satisfactory completion of the "Fundamentals of Heating Plant Operations" training course given by organizations approved by the New York City Housing Authority.
- Ability to work rotating shifts that include nights, weekends, and holidays.
- A driver's license is not specified, although the roving-team assignment requires operating a motor vehicle.
Responsibilities
- Maintain heating operations at development locations and operate heating and domestic hot water boilers.
- Tend to and operate heating equipment and monitor CHAS equipment.
- Maintain, adjust, and repair boilers, industrial oil burners, heating and domestic hot water equipment, and auxiliaries.
- Stand watch and fire low-pressure boilers.
- Assist with inspections and testing of boilers and related equipment.
- Dismantle or assemble heating equipment and requisition parts as needed.
- Conduct and schedule tank inspections.
- Respond to heating and hot-water service disruptions.
- Repair boilers, burners, and distribution systems.
- Troubleshoot heating issues and provide technical expertise.
- Assist skilled trade administrators in reviewing skilled trade tickets.
- Follow up on heating issues at assigned development locations.
- Keep logs and prepare required reports.
- When assigned to a roving team, respond to emergency dispatches and perform minor repairs to heating systems and related equipment, especially to address steam and hot-water abnormalities.
- Drive to assigned and emergency work locations throughout the five boroughs and transport needed equipment.
- Check the assigned vehicle's operating condition, report routine servicing needs, and complete equipment and activity reports.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
