HVAC Technician

We are seeking a skilled Journeyman HVAC Technician to join our team at PremiStar. As a key member of our maintenance team, you will be responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in our Merrillville, IN facility.

• Monitor and evaluate the condition of operating equipment and controls to ensure safe operation and life cycle performance.
• Perform routine repairs to pump seals, bearings, and other mechanical components.
• Inspect and test systems to verify compliance with plans and specifications or to detect and locate malfunctions.
• Determine customer concerns with their current HVAC systems and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Comply with all applicable standards, policies, and procedures, including safety procedures and the maintenance of a clean work area.
• Discuss heating-cooling system malfunctions with customers to isolate problems or to verify that malfunctions have been corrected.
• Record and report all faults, deficiencies, and other unusual occurrences, as well as the time and materials expended on work orders.
• Test pipe or tubing joints or connections for leaks.
• Adjust system controls to settings recommended by the manufacturer to balance the system.
• Recommend, develop, or perform preventive or general maintenance procedures, such as cleaning, power-washing, or vacuuming equipment, lubricating parts, or changing filters.
• Install auxiliary components to heating-cooling equipment, such as expansion and discharge valves, air ducts, pipes, blowers, dampers, flues, and stokers, following blueprints.
• Assist with other work in coordination with repair and maintenance teams.
• Install, connect, and adjust thermostats, humidistats, and timers.
• Generate work orders that address deficiencies in need of correction.
• Connect pipes or tubing to equipment and to fuel, water, or refrigerant source, to form complete circuits.
• Assemble, position, and mount heating or cooling equipment, following blueprints.

• High School diploma or equivalent and 5 years of HVAC level operation, maintenance, and repair experience in the HVAC and refrigeration trade.
• Knowledge of HVAC repairs, maintenance, and installation techniques, electrical circuits and wiring, operating principles of motors, and local electrical codes.
• Effective communication skills to interact with internal teams and customers.
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
• Diagnose and resolve problems, follow written and verbal instructions, read and interpret blueprints, diagrams, schematics, and written reference material, and perform math.
• Ability to use hand and power tools.
• Valid driver's license.

This position requires physical ability to operate a variety of machinery and equipment, including electronic and diagnostic tools, recovery equipment, and various other HVAC equipment. The employee must be able to use body members to work, move, or carry objects or materials. This position requires stooping, kneeling, crouching, climbing, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, seeing, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions. The employee must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently.

This job operates primarily alone on HVAC and boiler equipment in all environments, including extreme cold or heat depending on the time of year. Vehicles are used as the base of operations.

Reasonable accommodation will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions unless doing so presents an undue hardship on the Company's business operations.