Job Description

Summary 

Employees and participates/executes installation, operation, service, repairs to residential and commercial HVAC systems by performing the following duties. Working at Central Piedmont Community College for ABM Industries. 

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:  

• Minimum 5 (five) years in HVAC and refrigeration repair and service in a similar type institution. Extensive knowledge of DDC / BACnet protocols as well as older pneumatic control systems is essential. One-year certificate from college or technical school or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: 

• Inspects HVAC systems and engineering plants and corrects campus-wide equipment control deficiencies.
• Operates & maintains HVAC central plant equipment, including but not limited to chillers, absorbers, diesel generators, boilers, and associated equipment. 
• Tours and monitors engineering plant and maintains required logs. Monitors pressure temperatures and other equipment parameters; performs preventive maintenance and repairs on HVAC systems and associated equipment.
• Performs preventive maintenance tasks to HVAC equipment.
• Answers general repair and temperature service calls for the facility. 
• Monitors troubleshoot and maintain control systems, including pneumatic, direct digital, and hybrid systems. 
• Make changes and monitor interior environments thru the use of building management computer systems.
• Repairs and maintains other mechanical and physical plant systems, including motors, pumps, valves, steam-operated equipment, compressors, etc. 
• Other duties may be assigned.

Performs other duties as assigned such as: 

• Lays out reference points for installation of unitary structural and functional components.
• Drills holes and installs mounting brackets and hangers into floor and walls of the building.
• Lifts or hoists and aligns HVAC components into position.
• Screws, bolts, rivets, welds, and brazes parts to assemble structural and functional components such as motors, controls, switches, gauges, wiring harnesses, valves, pumps, compressors, condensers, cores, and pipes.
• Cuts, threads, and connects the pipe to functional components and water or power system of premises.
• Pumps specified gas or fluid into the system.
• Starts system, observes operation, reads gauges and instruments and adjusts mechanisms such as valves, controls, and pumps to control the level of fluid, pressure, and temperature in the system.
• Dismantles malfunctioning systems and tests components.
• Replaces or adjusts defective or worn parts to repair systems.
• Insulates shells and cabinets of systems.
• Installs wiring to connect components to electric power and control sources.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• EPA Universal
• BAS Controls preferred
• Formal DDC Training and Troubleshooting Certifications plus
• Commercial Refrigeration or Operating Experience 
• Formal Trade School or degree 
• Current and Clean Driver’s License
• Familiarity with all types of HVAC equipment and advanced service and troubleshooting techniques. 
• Ability to read technical drawings and schematics. 

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. 
• The employee is frequently required to walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; sit; reach with hands and arms and taste or smell. 
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Visually inspect equipment. 

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. 
• The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; outside weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock. 
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; extreme cold; extreme heat and vibration. 
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Hours M-F 9am-5:30pm and participate in on call rotation. 

Charlotte, NC US (Primary)

ABM is an EOE: WE ARE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER(M/F/Vet/Disability/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation).

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