HVAC Lead (1199 SEIU)

Leads and coordinates activities of workers engaged in setting up, installing, repairing, and maintaining machinery and equipment and in fabricating metal parts and tools.  

• Directs workers in electrical, electronic, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment. Assists workers in diagnosing malfunctions in machinery and equipment. Directs workers engaged in dismantling, assembling, and installing industrial machinery.
• Requisitions and keeps supply of spare parts. Studies production schedules and estimates worker hour requirements for completion of job assignment.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations. Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shop, department or work crew.
• Interprets specifications, blueprints, and job orders to workers, and assigns duties.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules. Recommends measures to improve maintenance methods, equipment performance, and quality of operations.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems. Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals. Maintains time and production records.
• Confers with manager to coordinate activities of individual departments. Performs activities of workers supervised.

Education Requirement:

The individual must have a high school diploma or equivalent GED certification. Also it is preferred the individual possess a 2 year or more technical degree. 

Licenses or Certification:

The individual must have a refrigeration license and a refrigeration license. Also, the individual must possess an EPA certification.

Technical/computer skills: Equipment operation

Prior years experience:

The individual must possess five or more years of experience in the HVAC field.

Other skills/requirements:

The individual must be able to read and write English. The individual must be able to speak and understand English.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear.  The employee must regularly lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 75 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental demands:

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts.  The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.