HVAC​/Refrigeration Tech

Responsibilities

• Install, maintain, operate, calibrate, repair, troubleshoot refrigeration, air conditioning, and air volume equipment and associated control systems.
• Ensure compliance with operating procedures, regulations, and cGMP while maintaining highest product/service quality.
• Perform HVAC maintenance across work groupings as needed; may support significant maintenance business systems (e.g., CMMS data, planning, procurement, scheduling) and help assign/coordinate work.
• Install/repair/overhaul/operate AC & refrigeration components (compressors, pumps, evaporators, expansion/solenoid valves, controls, condensers).
• Troubleshoot HVAC/BAS systems; respond to alarms; maintain logs and daily labor records.
• Monitor/measure HVAC filter pressure drop; replace as needed; clean coils/coils/evaporators/condeners.
• Maintain lyophilization/manufacturing/research environment systems using BAS; follow change control.
• Operate refrigerant recovery/recycling/reclaiming equipment; obtain required certifications.
• Support training, HAZOPs/Kaizen/lean six-sigma initiatives, estimates, spare parts/tool recommendations, and safety permits.

• Work with tools/equipment including oxyacetylene torch, cleaning equipment, gauges, measuring devices, radios, vacuum pumps, rigging tools, and BAS leak detection/recovery/recycling systems.
• Read refrigeration/HVAC drawings and control schematics; upload/download BAS programs; mechanical aptitude.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Universal Refrigerant Certification.
• Plus one pathway: HVAC/R refrigeration trade school (6 months/650 hrs) + 3 years recent full‑time experience; OR approved apprentice program; OR equivalent military training + 3 years; OR prior company HVAC/R mechanic role within last 7 years; OR shorter trade program (3 months/325 hrs) + 5 years; OR no formal education + 10 years.
• Must be able to interface with automated building/refrigeration control systems; experience servicing 20‑Ton HVAC/Refrigeration and/or low‑temperature systems.

• Vendor training (HVAC/Refrigeration/DOC/DDC), centrifugal chiller/cascade/screw compressor/DOC experience; testing/adjusting/balancing proficiency; HVAC instrumentation calibration.

• Business systems, chemical cleaning, commercial refrigeration, leak detection systems, maintenance management/planning software, maintenance processes, quality management, refrigerant, safety procedures.