HVAC Technician

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Work type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Denver, CO
Categories: Facilities Management & Planning
Division: Facilities Planning & Management

With minimal or no supervision, this position repairs maintains, and installs heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration equipment, including but not limited to boilers, pumps, fans, compressors, cooling towers, chillers, air compressors, pneumatic and electrical controls and heat exchangers.

In addition to following the University of Denver’s policies and procedures, principal responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Performs daily rounds to check equipment in various mechanical rooms throughout campus to include, but not limited to
  • checks and maintains alignment of motors with pumps, compressors and V-belt drive equipment,
  • checks and maintains operation of electric controls and starters,
  • logs equipment temperatures, pressures, and amperage draw,
  • monitors all water columns, gauges, meters, thermometers, and other indicating equipment, and
  • performs chemical analysis and adds chemicals to equipment as needed.
• Diagnoses repair needs on all heating and cooling equipment and performs full corrective actions.
• Performs seasonal changeover of heating and cooling systems as well as seasonal shutdown and start-up of various systems.
• Cleans waterside equipment, cooling towers, condenser tubes, and pump strainers.
• Able to operate steam and hot water boilers, auxiliary equipment, transmission, and distribution systems.
• Reads and sketches control diagrams and schematics.
• Works with high-temperature solders, brazing methods, oxyacetylene, and electric arc welding.
• Keeps records and prepares analytical reports. Completes work orders distributed by the foremen on a daily basis and tracks time and material for each work order.
• Regulates and adjusts operating controls.
• Responds to call-outs for all shops and take appropriate action.
• This position will be part of an on-call rotation.
• Must have adequate computer skills to monitor building automation systems and to respond to alarms generated by the software.

• Must be able to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications and must be able to effectively communicate with supervisor, co-workers and other staff and faculty within the community
• Detailed procedures. Daily priorities are established by the employee. Employee responds to situations requiring immediate attention.
• Expert skills. Competency in electrical fields/functions.
• Ability to read and understand service manuals technical specifications, control diagrams, schematics and blueprints. Computer skills necessary.
• Must be knowledgeable of related OSHA and EPA regulations and able to take appropriate safety precautions.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot control circuits with and without printed schematics, using a multi- meter.

• A high school diploma or G.E.D.
• Journeyman skill level and minimum of 10 years experience in HVAC field
• Must possess a valid Colorado Drivers License and be insurable under University guidelines.
• Must be knowledgeable of related OSHA and EPA regulations and be able to effectively communicate regulations to others.
• Pass a pre-employment physical exam, and lift 100 lbs.
• Boiler Operators Class A license Supervisor
• Heating and Ventilation Class A Supervisor License
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to extreme heat, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The employee frequently moves near moving mechanical parts, in high precarious places, and in outside weather conditions and is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and fumes or airborne particles.
• The noise level in the work environment can be extremely loud.
• Unexpected interruptions often occur, and stress level is moderate to high.

• Moderate to strenuous physical effort required. This position demands frequent amounts of crouching, walking, standing, bending, reaching and repetitive motions of the hand-wrist and elbow-shoulder. The employee is occasionally required to climb and balance, talk and hear. Tasks involve being in cold and hot, noisy, possibly constricted spaces. Workers are required to push, pull, carry and lift objects of up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities demanded by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Should be able to wear approved OSHA respirators.

Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m.

- 4:30 p.m.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.

The salary grade for the position is 10.

The hourly range for the position is $34.77.

The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the…