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Air Conditioning Equipment Operator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 12 days ago
On-site Augusta, GA $27.9 – $32.6/hr Apply by Sep 16, 2026 Air Conditioning Equipment Operating ISTP Operations
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The Air Conditioning Equipment Operator serves within Engineering Service and is responsible for the operation, monitoring, adjustment, maintenance, and minor repair of facility utility systems. Duties include operating steam boilers, centrifugal chillers, cooling towers, pumps, and associated equipment to support safe, reliable, and efficient medical center operations.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include; but are not limited to: Operates and performs minor repairs on gas/oil-fired steam boilers, boiler feedwater pumps, condensate transfer pumps, centrifugal water chillers, cooling towers, chilled-water pumps, condenser-water pumps, and associated equipment.
- →Starts, stops, and regulates boilers, chillers, pumps, and associated equipment in response to facility load demands.
- →Operates and adjusts the medical center's centralized energy management system and associated field components controlling heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and smoke-control systems.
- →Monitors gauges, meters, instruments, and operating conditions to calculate system flow and identify potential or developing equipment problems.
- →Responds to plant trouble calls, evaluates equipment problems, performs repairs within assigned capabilities, and coordinates additional maintenance support when necessary.
- →Analyzes water samples and chemically treats boiler, chilled-water, and condenser-water systems to maintain required treatment levels.
- →Performs scheduled preventive maintenance, maintains operating and maintenance records, and assists mechanics with major equipment repairs and off-season overhauls.
- →Performs minor equipment repairs, including replacing mechanical seals, bearings, valves, pipe fittings, and motors, and repairing insulation, valve packing, piping, and seals.
- →Detects equipment malfunctions, locates and troubleshoots problems, and determines appropriate corrective action to maintain safe and reliable plant operations.
- →Performs required boiler safety-device testing and follows established plant safety procedures.
- →Maintains accurate plant operating logs and communicates operating conditions, shift activities, alarms, and other pertinent information to appropriate personnel.
- →Work Schedule: Rotating and/or permanent 8- or 12-hour shifts are required to support 24-hour, 7-day-per-week plant operations.
- →Specific work hours will be determined based on operational needs.
- →Position Description Title/PD#: Air Conditioning Equipment Operator/PD11462A Physical Requirements: Work requires regular walking tours of the plant to inspect equipment and involves lifting, kneeling, standing, climbing, and stooping.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 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 dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary 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, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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