Senior Air Conditioning Mechanic - Environmental Services Department

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About the Department

The Environmental Services Department (ESD) is a national leader in pollution prevention, watershed protection, utility service provision, and climate action. Together, ESD employees positively impact every resident and business in San Jose.

Our department is an exceptional place to start or grow your career. We have a supportive leadership team, numerous professional growth opportunities, and an inclusive workplace culture that is welcoming of your talents! We offer an array of meaningful career paths and value flexibility - offering hybrid work and alternative work schedules in select roles. Additionally, the City offers excellent health and pension benefits , as well as 15 paid holidays!

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Position Duties

The Environmental Services Department is seeking to fill a vacant Senior Air Conditioning Mechanic position. This position is responsible for managing the HVAC maintenance duties at Buildings located at the Regional Wastewater Facility.

Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead HVAC maintenance crew, equipment maintenance, maintenance program administration, and computer-controlled systems operation.
• Operate, maintain, and repair a wide range of historic and state-of-the-art pumping, heating, refrigeration, ventilating and cooling systems and related equipment found in industrial facilities and laboratory environments.
• Must have knowledge of modern Building Automation Systems.
• Must have knowledge and experience with Industrial HVAC Systems.
• Maintain and troubleshoot low pressure boilers.
• Respond to and resolve HVAC mechanic personnel issues.
• Assess problems, devise quality solutions, and provide budgetary estimations for resolution.
• Review work performed by HVAC mechanics, facility repair workers and support contractors performing air conditioning related work.
• Specify, plan, review and inspect work by contracted mechanics and controls specialists to ensure adherence to plans and specifications.
• Manage preventative maintenance schedules for HVAC and related equipment. Interact and communicate tactfully with staff, customers, and the public.
• Manage multiple assignments, prioritize and reprioritize work when resources are not available.Plan, assign, and supervise work of subordinate personnel engaged in the operation, maintenance, and repair of mechanical equipment in City buildings.
• Make periodic inspections of all stationary building equipment, diagnose malfunctions, supervise services by subordinate personnel and insure compliance with preventive maintenance schedules.
• Supervise and participate in major overhaul work involving low pressure boilers, chillers, packaged A/C units, combination units, furnaces, heating units and large ventilation fans.
• Estimate necessary repair work, requisition supplies, materials and parts. Supervise emergency repair work.
• Maintain cooperative relations with building occupants, receive complaints, and make adjustments, when appropriate.
• Ensure that equipment rooms and adjoining areas are kept clean and orderly. Prepare reports and keep records.
• Take and record all temperatures and pressures throughout the system, purge air from the machines, check condenser coils for fouling, measure specific gravity of solution and refrigerant, check all operational and safety controls on chillers.
• Reconfigure computer control strategy for building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple positions in this, or other divisions or departments. If you are interested in employment in this classification, you should apply to ensure you are considered for additional opportunities that may utilize the applicants from this recruitment.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of training and experience equivalent to completion of high school and four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in the operations, repair and maintenance of heating, ventilating, refrigeration and cooling systems which are common to large buildings.

Other Qualifications

Minimum Knowledges, Skills and Abilities

Knowledge of low pressure boilers.

Knowledge of the installation, operation, maintenance and repair of a wide variety of pumping, heating, refrigeration, ventilating and cooling systems and related

equipment normally found in larger offices of public buildings.

Knowledge of automatic air conditioning controls.

Knowledge of fundamentals of air distribution.

Knowledge of safety codes and regulations as it pertains to air conditioning trade.

Knowledge of various building trade skills required in building maintenance work.

Knowledge of supervision principles and practices.

Knowledge of computerized HVAC systems.

Ability to supervise the maintenance, repair and overhaul of large and small stationary equipment and related fixtures.

Ability to diagnose operating difficulties and take appropriate corrective action.

Ability to read and interpret plans, drawings and specifications.

Ability to estimate the cost of material and labor involved in making repairs.

Ability to plan and supervise preventative maintenance schedule.

Ability to deal tactfully with others.

Competency Knowledges, Skills and Abilities

Knowledge of requisitioning, procedure and ability to requisition supplies, parts and equipment.

Ability to supervise, assign work, plan a group of air conditioning mechanics and to assign helpers.

Ability to oversee and inspect the work of contractors.

Ability to set, adjust, and repair automatic air conditioning controls.

Ability to estimate repair work.

Ability to operate computerized HVAC systems.
Competencies
The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies, as demonstrated in past and current employment history. Desirable competencies for this position include:

Job expertise- Experience maintaining large AC systems including cooling towers, chillers, pumps, water treatment, VAVs, etc.; experience with computer software, modern building automation systems and related software.

Communication Skills- Communicates and listens effectively and responds in a timely, effective, positive and respectful manner; written reports and correspondence are accurate, complete, current; well-organized, legible, concise, neat and in proper grammatical form.

CustomerService-Demonstrates the ability to anticipate customer’s needs and delivers services effectively and efficiently in a timely manner; accurate, respectful, and friendly manner. Understands stakeholder perspective to seek the most reasonable and effective resolution to issues.

Leadership Skills- Leads by example; serves as appropriate role model, demonstrates high ethical standards. Remains visible and approachable and interacts with others on a regular basis; promotes a cooperative work environment, encourages and rewards risk-taking, allowing others to learn from mistakes.

Problem Solving- Approaches a situation or a problem by defining the problem or issue; determines the significance of the problem(s), collects information, uses logic and intuition to arrive at decisions or solutions to problems that achieve the desired outcome.

Teamwork & Interpersonal Skills- Demonstrates a positive attitude and flexibility along with the ability to develop effective relationships with coworkers and supervisors by helping others accomplish tasks and using collaboration and conflict resolution skills.

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple positions in this, or other divisions or departments. If you are interested in employment in this classification, you should apply to ensure you are considered for additional opportunities that may utilize the applicants from this recruitment.

Selection Process:

The selection process will consist of an evaluation of the applicant's training and experience based on the application and responses to all the job specific questions. You must answer all questions to be considered or your application may be deemed incomplete and withheld from further consideration. Only those candidates whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to proceed in the selection process. Additional phases of the selection process will consist of one or more interviews.

If you have questions about the duties of these positions, the selection or hiring processes, please contact Chris Caruthers at chris.caruthers@sanjoseca.gov.

Additional Information:

Employment Eligibility: Federal law requires all employees to provide verification of their eligibility to work in this country. Please be informed that the City of San Jose will NOT sponsor, represent or sign any documents related to visa applications/transfers for H1-B or any other type of visa which requires an employer application.

Please note that applications are currently not accepted through CalOpps or any other third party job board application system.

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple positions in this, or other divisions or departments. If you are interested in employment in this classification, you should apply to ensure you are considered for additional opportunities that may utilize the applicants from this recruitment.

Please allow adequate time to complete the application and submit before the deadline or the system may not save your application. If your online application was successfully submitted, you will receive an automatic confirmation email to the email address you provided. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE THE CONFIRMATION, please email CityCareers@sanjoseca.gov and we will research the status of your application.

The City of San Jose offers a wide range of core health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Disability, and Savings Plans. Please visit the City's benefits pagefor detailed information on coverage, cost, and dependent coverage.

For information on the City’s Retirement Plan(pension for full-time employees), please visit the Office of Retirement Services website. You will be able to view information based on different Sworn/Federated job classification.

In additional to the benefits above, there is an additional perks siteto explore further benefits of working for the City of San Jose like paid leave, educational reimbursements, and holiday pay are specific to the job classification and union membership.

Closing Date/Time: 11/21/2024 11:59 PM Pacific

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