Operating Engineer II

King County’s Facilities Management Division (FMD) seeks an experienced Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Engineer to join our crew. The HVAC Engineer performs day‑to‑day operation, inspections, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of facility heating, ventilation, and air‑conditioning systems and related building controls. This role works in the Building Operations Section of FMD and reports to the HVAC Engineer Foreman.

• Monitor, maintain, and repair direct digital controls (DDC).
• Monitor and repair heating and air‑conditioning equipment using computerized console controls.
• Make adjustments necessary to compensate for temperature change or equipment failure.
• Inspect and adjust water levels, steam pressures, lubricants, coolants, drive belt, and bearing operation, filters, etc., to ensure proper equipment operation.
• Perform preventative maintenance on large commercial heating and cooling systems and controls for those systems.
• Adjust and calibrate large commercial heating and cooling systems and controls for those systems.
• Conduct refrigeration maintenance and service.
• Timely and accurate documentation of work in maintenance management system.

• Grade Three Steam Engineer License
  , Refrigeration Operating Engineer’s License
  , and Universal EPA Technician Certification (required).
• Two years of experience in operating, troubleshooting, and repairing large‑scale industrial HVAC equipment, including boilers and DDC control systems.
• Experience in solving customer service issues with tact and diplomacy, and ability to work with a broad and diverse customer base.
• Knowledge of the products, materials, equipment and tools related to the industry.
• Knowledge of applied mathematics.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Experience in reading and interpreting blueprints.
• Experience evaluating and troubleshooting electrical and mechanical problems.

• This position has been designated as a FIRST RESPONDER in the event of a proclaimed emergency.
• A valid Washington State driver's license is required, or the ability to travel throughout King County on company vehicles.
• Final appointment is contingent upon successfully passing a federal and county background investigation and a pre‑employment physical examination.
• This position may be relocated to other King County facilities such as the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
• Shifts:
  
  Swing (3:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.) or Grave (11:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m.).
• Employees are paid on a bi‑weekly schedule, every other Thursday, and the work schedule is a 40‑hour workweek.
• The position is required to be on a paid rotating standby list for non‑duty days such as weekends and holidays.
• Incumbents are represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 286.

King County is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer. No person is unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other protected class. Our EEO policy applies to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, selection for training, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.