Maintenance - Electronic HVAC Technician 1st shift

Chromalloy•Orangeburg, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Performs all the duties of a Licensed HVAC including repairs, installs, and replace equipment in Facility and Property. This role involves working with various systems including safety devices, rigging, ventilation, blueprints, schematics, technical drawings, chemical handling, refrigerant recovery, asbestos awareness, installation of various HVAC components, soldering, understanding and calibrating controls (thermostatic switches, humidistats, DDC, microprocessor controls, etc.), operating central and auxiliary computers for energy management systems, understanding various valve and evaporator types, compressor characteristics, condenser types, air conditioning principles, testing and charging systems, installation and servicing of oil and gas burners, and general troubleshooting and maintenance of shop tools and equipment. The role also requires maintaining repair records, improving the preventive maintenance program, and keeping a clean and orderly maintenance shop. Soft skills include being self-disciplined, a problem solver, proactive, team-oriented, and eager to learn. Hard skills include OSHA safety awareness, confined space certification, blueprint interpretation, troubleshooting, preventative maintenance, LOTO safety, asbestos awareness, and knowledge of national, state, and local codes.

Requirements

Must have a Journeyman NY License.
Must Hold a NY State License.
Candidates need to be able to work on any shift including 3rd shift.
Must be authorized to work in the United States.
Must be a US person (U.S. citizen, U.S. naturalized citizen, U.S. permanent resident, holder of U.S. approved political asylee or refugee status).

Nice To Haves

Confined Space Certification
Asbestos Awareness

Responsibilities

Performs repairs, installs, and replaces equipment in Facility and Property.
Utilizes safety devices and practices including staging, ladders, rigging, and ventilation.
Properly uses and cares for all tools connected with the trade.
Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and technical drawings.
Performs rigging and material handling, including safe unloading of material and use of ladders, scaffolding, power lifts, and personnel lifts.
Handles, stores, and disposes of chemicals and refrigerant drums.
Understands and works with relief valves, high pressure temperature switches, fusible plugs, and low pressure temperature switches.
Familiarizes with electrical equipment and circuits, proper groundings, short circuit protecting fusing, starter and contactor overloads, and motor characteristics.
Recovers chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant gases.
Identifies potential in-place asbestos material and follows procedures for avoidance and notification of certified Asbestos Handler.
Installs equipment, including setting and mounting, hanging methods, fittings, tubing, pipe, vibration elimination, evacuation, venting, insulation, welding, soldering, brazing, tanks, piping, and heat recovery systems, air and water filters.
Solders piping systems, including soft soldering, hard soldering, and brazing.
Understands and works with controls such as thermostatic switches, humidistats, analog controls, Direct Digital Controls (DDC), microprocessor controls, solid-state controls, starters, contactors, relays, safeties, pneumatic systems, damper, and oil burner controls.
Calibrates controls and balances air distribution systems to maintain proper air temperature.
Operates central and auxiliary computers to monitor, test, control, and operate boilers, auxiliary systems, and energy management systems.
Understands and works with valves including expansion valves, capillary tubes, solenoid valves, evaporator-liquid compressor regulating valves, and service valves.
Understands and works with evaporators, including gravity forced air, low side float, high side float, flooded/dry, low temperature, high temperature, fin type, plates, water cooling, and double refrigerant types.
Understands and works with compressors, including rotary, reciprocating, semi-sealed belt drive, and their characteristics with various refrigerants.
Understands and works with electric motors, including their characteristics, lubrication, valve adjustment, shop repair, and overhaul.
Understands and works with condensers, including condenser-received, installation and service, air-cooled, water-cooled, and water towers.
Understands air conditioning principles, including aerodynamics, distribution, airflow, sizing, cleaning, dehydrating, cooling, heating, insulating valves, heat recovery, motors, fans, pumps, compressors, air purification, and humidifiers.
Tests, charges, starts, and adjusts systems, including testing for leaks, cleaning and drying, charging with refrigerant, making charging connections, and preparing and charging secondary refrigerants.
Starts and adjusts systems by installing necessary gauges and instruments, adjusting refrigerant metering controls, and adjusting condensing medium controls.
Installs and services oil and gas burners, including high-pressure gun burners, low-pressure atomizers, rotary burners, vaporizing burners, gas burners, and combusting testing.
Services, tests, and adjusts nozzles, ignition, pumps, regulating valves, and addresses issues related to smoke, soot, noise, and excessive fuel consumption.
Familiarizes with machine shop tools and methods, characteristics of general circuits, and general troubleshooting.
Maintains familiarity with all tools, equipment, and replacement parts used in repair and service.
Maintains a clean and orderly maintenance shop.
Maintains repair records through FIIX and/or Velocity.
Constantly improves the Preventive Maintenance Program for the facility and provides documentation to the Facility Manager.
Follows all Local, State, and Federal Rules.
Maintains Valve Backflow Prevention Program, documents, and provides EH&S documentation.