Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What You Will Do
The HVAC Maintenance Technician performs skilled inspection, repair, installation, and preventative maintenance on HVAC, refrigeration, and cooling tower systems within an industrial manufacturing and engineering environment. Working under supervision, this role monitors building operations and utilizes cross-functional skills in plumbing, electrical, heating, and cooling to ensure continuous, efficient, and safe system operations.
Core Responsibilities
- System Maintenance: Monitor and maintain building HVAC, chillers, supply/return fans, ceiling fan coils, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors, coils, air filters, valves, dampers, and thermostats.
- Water & Air Management: Oversee open/closed-loop water treatments (heating, chilled, cooling towers) and manage air compressors with their proximate accessories.
- Inspections & Tours: Complete routine watch tours by walking, climbing stairs, and entering small or noisy spaces to inspect all building systems.
- Automation & Calibration: Calibrate, repair, and manage automated building systems by adjusting software parameters, set points, schedules, and start/stop functions.
- Troubleshooting & Repair: Diagnose mechanical, plumbing, and pneumatic or building automation control problems.
- Emergency Response: Respond to occupant comfort calls and emergency situations to mitigate hazards, minimize property damage, and effect physical repairs.
- Equipment Care: Clean and lubricate motors, drives, and moving machinery; repair or replace defective parts; safely maintain all assigned tools, keys, and tablets.
- Documentation & Blueprints: Read blueprints to diagnose system problems; record findings in log books; document time, materials, purchases, and completed maintenance.
Work Environment and Safety
- Compliance: Follow all published industry guidelines, health and safety regulations, and local/state building codes for HVAC, refrigeration, and boilers.
- Labor Relations: Ability to successfully work within a structured Union environment.
- Hazard Awareness: Report any unusual equipment conditions or unsafe workplace hazards immediately to management.
- Site Care: Maintain strict cleanliness and organization across all workspaces, shops, and storage areas.
Requirements And Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of eight (8) years of experience operating, maintaining, and repairing HVAC, refrigeration, ventilation, and power equipment in large commercial, industrial, or institutional buildings.
- Licensing: Valid EPA Refrigerant Reclamation License (Required).
- Technical Skills: Proficiency with building automation software, basic computer skills, and precise use of common hand/power tools.
- Communication: Ability to read blueprints and communicate effectively (orally and in writing) with supervisors, managers, security, and co-workers.
- Flexibility: Available to adjust to changing operational needs outside of the regularly scheduled work week.
At the Volvo Group, we strive for a clear, transparent, and straightforward compensation approach, motivating you to contribute to the company’s growth. The current starting pay rate for this role is $40.60. Pay progression and future increases will be governed by the collective bargaining agreement.
In addition to a solid package of compensation and benefits, plus you will enjoy:
- Competitive medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off.
- Competitive matching retirement savings plans.
- Working environment where your safety, health and wellbeing come first.
- Focus on professional and personal development through Volvo Group University.
- Programs that make today’s challenging reality of combining work and personal life easier.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Who We Are And What We Believe In
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join
Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
Trucks Technology & Industrial Division hire team players who are ready to create real customer impact. Our decentralized teams work close to our customers, with speed and autonomy, to build what they truly need.
Join us to collaborate on innovative, sustainable technologies that redefine how we design, build, and deliver value. Bring your curiosity, your expertise, and your collaborative energy, and together, we’ll turn bold ideas into tangible solutions for our customers and contribute to a more sustainable tomorrow.
