HVAC Mechanic Journeyman - Vanderbilt University Hospital

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

18h•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt Health is seeking a full-time HVAC Mechanic Journeyman to join the HAR Facilities team at their downtown Nashville hospital locations. This role involves the inspection, routine maintenance, and repair of various systems and equipment within the medical center. The position may require weekend and after-hours work as needed. Vanderbilt Health is a large, comprehensive academic health system dedicated to providing world-class care, education, and research, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment where expertise is valued and professional growth is encouraged.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED
3 years of relevant work experience

Nice To Haves

Provides inspection, routine maintenance and repair to systems and equipment for which the HAR Shop has responsibility.
Weekend and after-hours work may be required as needed.
Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.
Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.
Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Responsibilities

Installation, repair and maintenance of all aspects of the medical center, including supply, exhaust, and return air systems (e.g., Fan Walls, centrifugal fans, vane-axial fans).
Maintenance of water movement systems (excluding non-potable and non-drinking water systems).
Maintenance of life safety systems and equipment safeties that control or are controlled by listed systems.
Maintenance of air volume control systems (e.g., variable frequency drives, inlet vanes, variable sheaves, motors).
Maintenance of air temperature control systems (e.g., heat transfer coils, heat exchangers, electric resistance heating).
Maintenance of air humidity control systems.
Maintenance of direct expansion heating and cooling equipment.
Maintenance of chilled water systems and associated piping, valves, and fittings (e.g., chillers, cooling towers, control valves).
Maintenance of process water chemical treatment systems serving listed systems.
Maintenance of process steam systems.
Maintenance of building automation control systems (e.g., electronic DDC controls, pneumatic controls).
Maintenance of medical gas bulk storage systems (e.g., oxygen, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, helium, carbon dioxide, compressed air).
Maintenance of medical air and medical vacuum production systems.
Maintenance of low-temperature refrigeration systems.
Maintenance of environmental control chambers systems (e.g., cold rooms, environmental growth chambers).
Maintenance of steam distribution systems (e.g., pressure reducing equipment, piping, valves, converters, condensate pumps, steam traps).
First responder to medical center elevator service calls.
First responder to weekend and after-hours patient care television service calls.
First responder to non-HAR service calls when other trades journeymen are not on site.