Title: Air Conditioning Technician
Duration: 12+ months Contract
Pay rate: $16.00/hr. on w2
Location: Nashville, TN 37212
Shift: Flexible
BG/DT required: Yes
Roles and Responsibilities:
- The incumbent(s) will assist Veteran Affairs (VA) operators and work independently once trained to maintain facility needs.
- The incumbent(s) will operate a multi-zone air conditioning plant consisting of several centrifugal chillers with a capacity of approximately 3,000 tons and two reciprocating chillers with a capacity of 175 tons each, 4 computer room air conditioning units with a total capacity of 40 tons, and other air conditioning components such as condenser water systems, chilled water circulating systems and large air handling units that provide heating, ventilation, filtering, humidification and cooling to the entire medical center.
- The incumbent(s) must be able to start, stop, and adjust all the air conditioning equipment needed to maintain required conditions of special areas such as clinical labs, research labs, bone marrow transplant unit, operating rooms, decentralized hospital computer equipment rooms, MRI, telephone and communication equipment, etc.
- The incumbent(s) is required to make hourly inspections of all operating equipment and records all findings such as compressor pressures, refrigeration temperatures, water temperatures, oil pressures, volt and amp readings and other information pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of the equipment.
- The incumbent(s) must also check and adjust room temperatures and air handling unit temperatures as needed and address any alarms.
- The incumbent(s) are required to respond to emergent situations relating to the malfunction of all building service equipment in the medical center such as plumbing, electrical, medical equipment, nurse call system, medical air systems, vacuum system, etc.
- The incumbent(s) are to maintain the cleanliness of all the Fan Rooms such as removing Trash and sweeping the floors.
- The incumbent(s) are to complete weekly and monthly (PM's) Preventative Maintenance in all the Fan Rooms.
- The incumbent(s) is responsible for relaying all information in the A/C Operations logbook located in the boiler plant.
- At the end of each shift the incumbent will be required to have a hand-off meeting with the person relieving them to discuss items not corrected from the previous shift.
Required knowledge:
- 12 months of commercial Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and building operations experience.
- Air Conditioning Equipment Required Knowledgeability - 12 years of qualified experiences.
- Air Handler Units.
- Cooling Towers.
- Chillers - Starting and stopping.
- Pumps.
- Motors.
- Exhaust Fans.
- Refrigerators.
- Ice Machines.
- Walkin Coolers.
- Pneumatic Tube System.
- Basic plumbing.
- Basic electricity.
- Siemen Desigo Computer System - Building Automation System 1 year of experience utilizing system.
- REES System.
- Viewpoint.
- Notifier fire alarm System.
- Contracted employees will be required to work on Federal Holidays should the schedule fall provided by the COR upon successful completion of training for both trades is on said federal holiday. List of Federal Holidays is below.
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