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Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 63 days ago
On-site Beckley, WV $31 – $36.2/hr Apply by Jul 23, 2026 Air Conditioning Equipment Mechanic ESTPISTP OperationsHealthcareTrades
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The position is located within the Facilities Management Service Line (FMSL), Maintenance and Operations (M&O) Team at the Beckley VA Medical Center. The purpose of this position is to perform work installing, troubleshooting, and repairing, modifying and relocating complex heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment tracked by the Building Maintenance System (BMS) to provide specific and critical climatic condition throughout the Beckley VA Healthcare System.
What You'll Do
- →Principal Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Responsible for maintaining, repairing, installing and modifying complex HVAC equipment and systems.
- →The HVAC systems throughout the MC are controlled by the Siemens Energy Management System (EMS) and all related controls, which is a complex, computerized central environmental monitoring and control system.
- →Operates, maintains and modifies this system to optimize efficiency and energy savings, while maintaining environmental functions, i.e., temperature, humidity, ventilation and fire & smoke dampers at proper levels for patient care and other facility operations.
- →Operates stand-alone control units (SCU); Powers 600 Siemans Controls using both analog and digital control (DCU) modules; Turbocore 1.35 for the Daikin chillers installed at the Beckley VAMC.
- →Uses the BMS dedicated computers to store operating parameters and initiate adjustments that allows temperature set-backs for cooling/heating in unoccupied areas with direct digital controllers.
- →Responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, and replacing these devices.
- →Locates and corrects problems, calibrates equipment, and uses various precision measuring instruments, adjusts and makes improvements to various systems in the performance of duties.
- →Reviews and interprets construction plans in order to cut, braze and solder piping, wiring and circuit boards.
- →Works with journeyman, maintenance mechanics or helpers, and engineering staff to accomplish repairs or preventative maintenance (PMs).
- →Provides expertise and innovative ideas to reduce energy usage through awareness of energy conservation measures.
- →Performs preventive and corrective maintenance and acts as technical specialist to other employees and station management staff as assigned by the supervisor.
- →Makes recommendations or suggestions to the supervisor for final approval and action.
- →Makes data entries in the Automated Engineering Management System/Medical Equipment Reporting System (AEMS/MERS) work order system.
- →Inputs and closes out work orders.
Requirements
- ✓In accordance with Section 608 of the Clean Air Act, this position requires a current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved Universal Certification.
- ✓Applicants who do not meet this requirement are ineligible for further consideration.
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Pre-employment physical required Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 7760f98e-f426-47f0-a805-80b5d3860375
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