HVAC Mechanic

Salary\: $52,286 - $78,416

Position Grade\: 210T

Department\: Multiple Departments

Job Type\: Full-time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1192

Location\: St. Louis, MO

This position is selected for the Hiring Incentive Program. The incentive shall be in the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1500.00). The hiring incentive will be paid (if funds are available) by the Department/Division which appoints the applicant. The hiring incentive is not available to current City employees.

Incumbents in this position install, maintain and repair heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Installs, maintains and repairs HVAC equipment including air conditioning units, furnaces, exhaust fans, boilers, chillers, and air handling equipment.

● Installs, maintains and repairs refrigeration units and ice making equipment.

● Assembles and connects piping and refrigeration lines; installs, adjusts and maintains controls; tests equipment; recharges refrigeration systems; examines systems for leaks.

● Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose.

● Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as equipment controls, electrical meters, gauges, vacuum pump, hand and power tools, refrigerant recovery equipment and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as work orders, equipment operation logs, schematics, blueprints, parts catalogs, technical operating manuals, equipment installation manuals, material safety data sheets, procedures, guidelines and nonroutine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate surface area, percentages, fractions and decimals; perform mathematical operations involving basic algebra and geometry.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objective.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as wetness, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents or toxic/poisonous agents.

● Physical Requirements\: Tasks involve the regular and sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling moderately heavy objects and materials, twenty (20) to one hundred plus (100+) pounds.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors to identify color coded wires, shapes to clearly distinguish objects, sounds and odors to detect malfunctioning equipment.