HVAC Technician

HVAC Technician

This safety sensitive position (SS) purpose is to maintain heat and air functions in the Jonesboro city buildings.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Inspects and troubleshoots refrigerant equipment for proper operation and recharges equipment as required. This duty is performed daily.
• Tests and troubleshoots HVAC system malfunctions, repairs, and tests equipment prior to placing back into service. This duty is performed weekly.
• Troubleshoots and services and replaces all HVAC control systems including water valves and damper motors. This duty is performed daily.
• Installs both rigid and flexible ductwork. This duty is performed as needed.
• Participates in the design, layout and installation of office, public facility, this duty is performed as needed.
• Install heat and air systems, single and three phase up to thirty (30) tons, water chillers, both gas fired and electric, including motors and capacitors. This duty is performed monthly.
• Repairs and services gas and electric boilers. This duty is performed annually.
• Makes electrical repairs to all city buildings and facilities. This duty is performed weekly.
• Rebuilds electric motors. This duty is performed monthly.
• Services and rebuilds high and low pressure pumps for splash pads and pools. This duty is performed as needed.
• Services and repairs appliances. This duty is performed monthly.
• Operating a city vehicle is required for the essential functions.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and experience:

Knowledge of a specialized field (however acquired), such as basic accounting, computer, etc. Equivalent of four years in high school, plus night, trade extension, or correspondence school specialized training, equal to two years of college, plus 2 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Communication skills:

Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical skills:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Critical thinking skills:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of known variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram formats.

Required certificates, licenses, registrations:

Valid Driver License

Preferred certificates, licenses, registrations:

Master Electrician License, HVAC License preferred

Software skills required:

Basic: 10-Key

Initiative and ingenuity:

Supervision received:

Under direction where a definite objective is set up and the employee plans and arranges own work, referring only unusual cases to supervisor.

Planning:

Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work; may also occasionally assist in the planning of work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.

Decision making:

Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved, but would also affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.

Mental demand:

Close mental demand. Operations requiring close and continuous attention for control of operations. Operations requiring intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of handling situations regarding the organization's administration and operations; also to determine or select material and equipment where highly variable sequences are involved.

Analytical ability / problem solving:

Moderately structured. Fairly broad activities using moderately structured procedures with only generally guided supervision. Interpolation of learned things in somewhat varied situations.

Responsibility for work of others:

Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.

Responsibility for funds, property and equipment:

Occasionally responsible for organization's property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation would result in moderate damage or moderate monetary loss to the organization. The total value for the above would range from $5,000 to $150,000.

Accuracy:

Probable errors of internal and external scope would have a moderate effect on the operational efficiency of the organizational component concerned. Errors might possibly go undetected for a considerable period of time, thereby creating an inaccurate picture of an existing situation. Could cause further errors, losses, or embarrassment to the organization. The possibility for error is always present due to requirements of the job.

Accountability:

Freedom to act:

Generally controlled. General processes covered by established policies and standards with supervisory oversight.

Annual monetary impact:

None. Job does not create any dollar monetary impact for the organization.

Impact on end results:

Modest impact. Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.

Public contact:

Frequent contacts with general public, patrons, or other outside representatives, wherein the manner of handling these contacts has a bearing on the organization's position and operation.

Employee contact:

Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal course of performing duties. Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.

Use of machines, equipment and/or computers:

Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/cdl, etc.)

Working conditions:

Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time.

Environmental conditions:

The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock; frequently exposed to work in high, precarious places, extreme cold; and occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, wet or humid conditions, vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Physical activities:

The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

Moderate diversity, moderately physical. Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, taste or smell; and occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.

Additional information:

Not indicated.