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HVAC Specialist

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Boise State University
Location
Boise, ID

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution
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Job Details

Posting Code: 2982336
Work type: Classified
Location: Boise, ID
Categories: Facilities Maintenance

About Us:

Boise State University, powered by creativity and innovation, stands uniquely positioned in the Northwest as a metropolitan research university of distinction. Learn more about Boise State and the City of Boise at https://www.boisestate.edu/about/boise-and-beyond/. Boise State University is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty, staff, students, and academic program offerings and to strengthening sensitivity to diversity throughout the institution. Boise State University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and members of historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. We are a welcoming campus that supports diversity and inclusion.

Boise State's Campus Operations Division is dedicated to meeting the needs of our students while providing a quality campus experience. A division focused on the future, Campus Operations' mission is to provide a constructive, memorable and safe environment where students can pursue their educational goals. Our division oversees the grounds, facilities, campus services and operations, and strives toward constant improvement and attention to detail to create an exceptional atmosphere for our students. Additionally, we are entrusted with building an institution of higher learning, while helping students reach their futures.

Job Summary/Basic Function:

To perform journey-level installation, maintenance, and repair of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems; perform related work.

Level Scope:

Regularly works on tasks that are varied and complex. Applies full range and job knowledge; frequently adapts procedures, techniques, tools, materials, and/or equipment to meet specialized needs; may serve as lead; performs broad and/or focused assignments under general supervision; originality and ingenuity are often required to help establish procedures in functional area; relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish assigned tasks.

Essential Functions:

  • Journeyman HVAC 4 Mechanic shall have the skill set and experience to install, maintain, and repair heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems ranging from 1 to 500 ton equipment.
  • Monitors HVAC systems and operations, and ensures that routine preventive maintenance is performed according to established schedules and standards.
  • Responds to hot and cold calls, then troubleshoot and resolve issues.
  • Checks, repairs and/or replaces valves, motors, controls, switches, gauges, wiring, fans, pumps, compressors, condensers, cores, pipes and other functional components of the system.
  • Services Chillers, centrifugal, cooling towers, steam boiler, refrigeration and water and air distribution systems.
  • HVAC control systems including: Siemens, JCI, Automatic Logic, Watt Master.
    Laboratory Support Systems, Flume Hoods, Exhaust Systems, Compressed Air Systems and Vacuum Systems.
  • Performs all work in accordance with established safety procedures.
  • Inspects completed work for conformance with requirements of local building and safety codes.
  • Estimates time and material costs on HVAC projects.
  • Requisitions HVAC supplies and equipment.
  • Develops capital project scope and budget for equipment replacements and energy conservation opportunities.
  • Verify and implement preventive maintenance standards on all HVAC distribution equipment.
  • Document all work in the CMMS system.
  • Operate, maintain and program building automation systems.
  • Enforces all Boise State University safety and risk management policies and procedures; reports all accidents and injuries in a timely manner and identifies and corrects unsafe work conditions with management oversight.
  • Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as designated.
  • Participate in the "On-Call" rotation.
  • May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

    • Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

    Certifications:

  • Holds appropriate license/certification for the specific work to be done in the city and state in which the work will be done.
  • Minimum requirement is EPA CFC Universal Certificate

    • Minimum Qualifications:

    Experience: Charging, starting, and checking for proper operation of HVAC type equipment and related devices; troubleshooting and repairing digital electronic and pneumatic HVAC control systems; starting, stopping, and troubleshooting chiller operations and chilled water systems; modifying and/or installing natural gas and water piping; operating, maintaining, diagnosing problems, and repairing industrial type HVAC systems and control devices; performing basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and sheet metal work; welding and repairing material and brazing pipe; cutting, brazing and soldering high pressure refrigerant piping.

    Required Licenses: HVAC Journeyman Licensing AND Universal Refrigerant Licensing

    Preferred Qualifications:

  • High School diploma, GED or equivalent experience
  • HVAC Journeyman License for the State of Idaho
  • Universal EPA License
  • 10 or more years of related work experience
  • Large tonnage background: Commercial and industrial applications

    • Salary and Benefits:

    This position pays $24.65 an hour. Boise State University is committed to offering a benefits package that provides health and financial protection plans as well as resources to promote health and well-being. Our program provides flexibility so you can choose the benefits that are right for you and your family. Learn more about our benefit options at https://hrs.boisestate.edu/benefits/.

    Advertised: February 10, 2021
    Applications close: February 24, 2021

    Organization

    Working at Boise State University

    Boise State University has been named one of the most innovative national universities in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Our university is designated a doctoral research institution with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institution of Higher Education. We are home to more than 25,000 students from every state and more than 60 foreign countries.

    Points of Pride:

    Boise State University’s College of Education is among the top 30 public universities on the U.S. News and World Report 2020 best graduate schools list. The college has climbed in rankings every year for the last six years and offers two doctoral programs, two educational specialist degrees, 14 master’s degrees and 13 graduate certificate programs training Idaho’s future teachers and educational leaders.

     

    Boise State’s College of Business and Economics ranked 127 out of 220 national institutions for its part-time MBA program, jumping more than 40 rankings from its previous year’s ranking of 168.

     

    Boise State University’s College of Engineering has been recognized for its dedication to promoting diversity and awarded the Bronze Award for the 2019 ASEE Diversity Recognition Program by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The

     

    Bronze Award is the highest level that was conferred during 2019 and distinguishes colleges who are among the nation’s leaders in inclusive excellence.

     

    Boise State University School of the Arts will offer two new degrees in creative writing — a bachelor of arts and bachelor of fine arts — as well as a bachelor of fine arts in narrative arts beginning in fall 2018. Students at Boise State also now will be able to minor in creative writing.

     

    Boise State students can choose from more than 200 areas of study in seven academic colleges – including the nation’s only master’s degree in raptor biology.

     

    We’ve become Idaho’s largest graduate school through record-setting growth. A recent study showed that Boise State is one of just three universities in the nation that have ranked in the top 5 percent of graduate school growth in both of the past two decades.

     

    Expenditures for research projects at Boise State University reached an all-time high of more than $41 million in fiscal year 2018 – an 18 percent increase over the previous year and impressive 64 percent increase since fiscal year 2014, according to data tracked by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development survey.

    About Our Community:

    Boise State, Idaho’s largest public university, drove $667.2 million of the state’s economy in fiscal year 2015 and created 6,987 jobs across the state.  Our campus is located in one of the fastest growing high-tech cities in the nation and home to several corporate headquarters, state and federal offices, medical centers and media outlets. The city has garnered national recognition from U.S. News & World Report, Forbes and Inc. for being a great place to live, work and study, and has been dubbed one of the hottest cities for entrepreneurs. With stats like these, it’s easy to see why more than 46,000 graduates have chosen to live in the Treasure Valley after earning their degree from Boise State.

    See Diversity Profile here. 

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