Senior HVAC Technician

Job Details

Salary: $35 - $44 per hour.

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.

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.

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.

• 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 lists and support critical‑spares decisions.
• Create clear work orders and job plans and document equipment conditions, refrigerant movement, measurements,…