Senior HVAC Technician

Senior HVAC Technician

$35 - $44 per hour | Columbus, OH | On-site | Permanent

Our client is a quality-driven manufacturing organization committed to safe, reliable operations and continuous improvement. Their team values technical expertise, hands-on problem solving, accountability, and collaboration while maintaining critical plant systems and driving equipment reliability and efficiency.

Employees are offered a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support them and their families, including competitive pay, a 401(k) with profit sharing, Health Savings Account with a 2:1 employer match, paid time off, employer-paid life and AD&D insurance, medical, vision, dental insurance, and additional benefits.

• Safety First - A strong commitment to protecting employees and the surrounding community.
• Reliable High Quality - A dedication to exceptional quality and dependable performance.
• Adaptability - A flexible and resilient approach to new situations, priorities, and challenges.
• Continuous Improvement
  - An environment that encourages better processes, stronger skills, and innovative technologies.
• Integrity & Accountability
  - High ethical standards with employees taking responsibility for their actions and results.
• Collaborative Engagement
  - Strong relationships and teamwork that bring together customer feedback and employee expertise to achieve better outcomes.

Our client is seeking a Senior HVAC Technician to join its Shared Services Division at its McKinley Avenue location. The Senior HVAC Technician serves as the senior, hands-on HVAC/R craft resource responsible for diagnosing, repairing, maintaining, installing, commissioning, and improving industrial HVAC/R systems and related plant utilities. This role plans safe work, resolves complex equipment and control problems, coordinates contractors, verifies completed work, documents equipment condition, and mentors technicians.

• Perform advanced corrective, preventive, predictive, and emergency maintenance on industrial HVAC/R and environmental-control systems.
• Independently troubleshoot complex failures using operating history, alarms, inspections, measurements, and functional testing; identify root causes and confirm reliable operation.
• Maintain and repair chillers, condensing units, rooftop and split systems, heat pumps, boilers, cooling towers, air handlers, exhaust systems, pumps, fans, coils, and related equipment.
• Service refrigeration circuits, including compressors, heat exchangers, metering devices, piping, valves, filter-driers, oil-management components, and safeties.
• Troubleshoot authorized HVAC electrical and control systems, including motors, starters, relays, contractors, VFDs, sensors, actuators, safeties, and low-voltage circuits.
• Operate and troubleshoot building automation systems using trends, alarms, schedules, setpoints, interlocks, and sequences of operation.
• Read and interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, equipment schedules, sequences of operation, electrical diagrams, control schematics, manuals, and specifications.
• Plan complex jobs, including scope, hazards, permits, isolation, labor, tools, parts, lifting, contractor support, testing, and return-to-service criteria.
• Inspect equipment condition and recommend repairs, replacements, preventive maintenance changes, or reliability improvements.
• Perform and verify scheduled maintenance on filters, belts, lubrication, coils, drains, electrical connections, controls, water-side components, and protective devices.
• Install and repair authorized refrigerant, hydronic, steam/condensate, gas, compressed-air, and drain piping; fit, braze, support, insulate, pressure-test, and inspect completed work.
• Install, connect, start up, and commission HVAC/R equipment in collaboration with Engineering, Operations, contractors, and manufacturers.
• Use authorized electrical, refrigeration, leak-detection, airflow, pressure, temperature, humidity, and vibration test instruments.
• Coordinate assigned technicians and contractors; communicate expectations, monitor safety and quality, resolve technical issues, and report status.
• Inspect completed work for scope, manufacturer, site, and code compliance before returning equipment to service.
• Estimate labor, materials, equipment, and contractor needs; prepare parts…