HVACR Installation Trainee — Paid Training & Growth

The Installation Technician Trainee reports to the Installation foreman and is responsible for performing a range of HVACR installation jobs for multifamily residential customers throughout New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Customer-based activities require an individual possessing trait of decisiveness, initiative, tact, judgment, integrity, dependability, and the ability to communicate in a technically credible manner. Job-related contact can occur with virtually all demographic groups, with the majority of working contacts being other trades, technicians, and the Installation foreman.

Benefits

• Paid Training
• Careers Advancement Opportunities
• Flexible Scheduling
• Competitive Compensation
• Year-Round Work
• Spiffs, Rewards, & Employee Contests

Representative duties include:

• Serving as a member of ad hoc Installation Department teams which are organized to conduct HVACR installation jobs in an efficient and timely manner.
• Performing supervised and unsupervised basic HVACR installation support activities (after having been shown all safety-related aspects of the role and the expected standards); e.g. fabricates simple fiberglass and sheet metal ducts and transitions, installs sheet metal and fiberglass components, hangs registers and grilles, stocks parts, installs refrigeration line sets including soldering and brazing, installs control wiring, assists Installation Technicians and Senior Installation Technicians.
• Performing progressively more difficult technical roles than noted in the preceding paragraph, under the direct supervision of an Installation Technician or Senior Installation Technician; e.g. measures and threads piping, uses basic test equipment, assists in start-up/charge/test/balance, performs rough-ins, installs residential units (gas, electric furnaces, air conditioners, and heat pumps).
• Conducting non-installation work in support of the Indoor Air Quality and Service Departments, as assigned.
• Performing related trainee duties as directed by the Installation Manager.

Job Qualifications:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Good verbal and reading skills, including the ability to read and apply manufacturers' instructions, and to clearly communicate with customers, suppliers, employees of other job-site contractors.
• Physical ability to perform all duties noted above under the conditions, circumstances and weather extremes. Examples include the ability to lift and carry a 50 lb. load (of the size and shape of an item encountered on an HVACR job) Must not have a fear of heights and high places (acrophobia).
• Interest and initiative in maintaining and advancing his/her HVACR skills through a combination of self-study, company training, manufacturers' workshops, and other professional development activities.
• Current (state) operator's license.
• Ability to work efficiently given time pressures, non-standard schedule, extreme weather conditions, varying customer needs and demands, and backlog constraints.