Maintenance Worker Heating Department

City of New York•New York, NY

2d•$35 - $36•Onsite

About The Position

This position is within the Heating Department and is responsible for the monitoring and repair of all heat and hot water related equipment. This includes boilers, tank rooms, pumps, motors, valves, and associated peripheral equipment to ensure continuous heat and hot water service to residents, in compliance with regulatory mandates. The role involves serving as the first responder to resident complaints regarding heat and hot water, maintaining records of all work performed, and reporting to supervisors. The job also includes operating the boiler plant with safety checks, fuel readings, minor repairs, and adjustments. Daily testing of boiler feed water chemicals, checking tank rooms and hot water tanks, and troubleshooting/repairing boilers and burners are key duties. The role requires preparing boilers and hot water tanks for annual inspections, including cleaning and re-assembly. Additionally, it involves conducting annual summer overhauls of vacuum tanks and F&T traps, servicing traps, and cleaning steam and return drip lines. The position also entails receiving fuel oil deliveries and preparing various daily reports.

Requirements

Three years of full-time satisfactory experience as a mechanic, journeyperson or helper in the electrical trades, the mechanical trades, or the construction or maintenance of buildings; or
At least two years of full-time satisfactory experience as described in "1" above plus sufficient full-time training or education in the electrical, mechanical or construction trades in a trade school, technical school or vocational high school to make up the equivalent of three years of acceptable experience. Six months of experience will be credited for each year of full-time acceptable training or education.

Responsibilities

Monitoring and repair of all heat and hot water related equipment in a boiler room, tank room and associated peripheral equipment such as pumps, motors, valves and the like to ensure continuous heat and hot water service is provided to residents in accordance with regulatory agency mandates.
Serving as first responder to all heat and hot water related complaints made by or on behalf of residents.
Reporting and keeping records of all work performed daily and providing this information to immediate supervisors.
Operation of boiler plant, which includes safety checks, fuel readings (gas/oil), feed water readings, minor repairs and adjustments to burners and boilers.
Perform daily testing of chemicals make-up of boiler feed water on each boiler.
Daily checking of all tank rooms and hot water tanks, which includes taking readings and making minor repairs to equipment in tank rooms.
Troubleshoot and make needed repairs to boilers, burners and related equipment.
Respond to all hot water and heat complaints made by residents.
Daily checking of developments house pumps and taking readings.
Prepare boilers for annual inspections, which consist of cleaning both water and steam side of boilers, disassembling and cleaning of mechanical safeties and burners; re-assembling boilers and burners after inspections are complete.
Prepare all development hot water tanks for annual inspection and cleaning; re-assembling and filling of hot water tanks after inspections are completed.
Conduct annual summer overhaul of developments' vacuum tanks, and F&T traps, which consist of testing and repairing vacuum tanks, motor pumps, servicing of all F&T traps and cleaning of all steam and return drip lines.
Receive all fuel oil deliveries.
Prepare several daily reports (tank Room, Boiler Room Fuel Oil, feed water Etc.).