Air Quality Technician

Air Quality Technician 2 – ,

Warren Correctional Institution – 5787 State Route 63, Lebanon, OH 45036

Works under general direction and requires thorough knowledge of air conditioning, refrigeration and heating technology and its processes and blueprint reading.

• Serves as lead worker over lower-level air quality technicians and/or incarcerated individuals engaged in installation, preventative maintenance, maintenance and repair of HVAC systems
• Perform highly skilled maintenance and installation work on HVAC equipment
• Periodically inspect operation of equipment; performs preventative maintenance schedules as assigned
• Repairs air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating systems
• Replaces or repairs pumps, fan motors, thermostats and filters
• Welds metal
• Inspects and tests installed equipment for proper assembly of components and checks for needed repairs
• Determines and completes materials needed, cost estimates, and submit requests to purchase
• Reads blueprints and/or schematic diagrams
• Maintains inventory of HVAC supplies
• Maintains tool count of tools used by incarcerated individuals (e.g., completes tool control forms daily, maintains strict inventory of tools)
• Performs other maintenance and/or miscellaneous duties (e.g., performs semi-skilled carpentry, painting, electrical, sheet metal, HVAC)
• Ensures compliance with security regulations
• Serves on institutional committees
• Attends training, seminars and/or meetings
• Performs security functions as required (e.g., man-down, shakedown, inmate movement)
• Performs other duties as assigned (e.g., snow and ice removal and grass cutting)

As a full‑time employee of the State of Ohio, you are eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical coverage
• Free dental, vision and basic life insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, adoption, and foster care leave
• Education and development opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public retirement systems such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS
• Optional deferred compensation (Ohio Deferred Compensation)

• Appropriate type (Type I, II, III or Universal) of certification as technician issued by an EPA‑approved certifying organization per Section 608 of the Clean Air Act; 6 months verifiable experience in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration maintenance, repair and installation; 1 course or 3 months experience in blueprint reading; 1 course or 3 months experience in hand and power tool operation;
  
  1 course or 3 months experience in minor welding operation.
• –Or 6 months experience as Air Quality Technician 1, 52291; appropriate type (Type I, II, III or Universal) of certifications “technician” issued by an EPA‑approved certifying organization per Section 608 of the Clean Air Act.
• –Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment noted above.

Job

Skills:

General Maintenance, Trade, Building Maintenance, Trades, Problem Solving, Flexibility, Time Management.

All final applicants tentatively selected for this position will be required to submit to urinalysis to test for illegal drug use prior to appointments. Testing will also be performed for the presence of marijuana. An applicant with a positive test shall not be offered employment unless the applicant submits medical documentation of legally prescribed medications or a recommendation for medical marijuana.

The final applicant selected for the position will be required to undergo a criminal background check. An individual assessment of an applicant’s prior criminal convictions will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

• Individuals under a federal or state weapons disability if the position requires firearms certification or recertification and use.
• Individuals who have engaged in sexual abuse in a prison or other confinement facility; have been civilly or administratively adjudicated, or convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by…