HVAC Technician - Auxiliary

Title: HVAC Technician - Auxiliary

Employee Classification: HVAC Technician

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-VP Finance & Admin

Sub Division-Department: UNT-Facilities

Department: UNT-Facilities-Gen-152000

Job Location: Denton

Salary: $33,312

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

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We are the Auxiliary Maintenance Team within the Maintenance division of UNT Facilities. Our team performs the routine and preventative maintenance that is vital to the resident and dining experience within our resident halls, dining facilities and many of our Sorority chapter locations. We work in close coordination and cooperation with our partners within the Housing and Auxiliary Services Department to make residence life our number one priority.

Auxiliary Maintenance is a culmination of several trades including structural, plumbing, electrical, HVAC and access control. We currently maintain facilities across 15 resident halls, 6 dining facilities and 7 Sorority Houses plus the Center for Sorority-Fraternity Life and the UNT Welcome Center. Our goal is to provide the most reliable, efficient and outstanding service to our residents, who rely on our maintaining their living and dining spaces so they can focus on their education.

We take great pride in what we do, and strive for excellence in service daily.

This position is responsible for intermediate skilled craftwork that involves heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC/R) work. Duties include installation, maintenance, repair, and service of building systems and requires advanced skills in a primary craft and may require limited competency in a secondary craft.

Representative Tasks:

• Performs routine maintenance of building and electrical/mechanical support systems of the boiler systems.
• Troubleshoots and repairs HVAC/R systems including: AHU, reheat, coils, thermostats, and valves.
• Inspects equipment to detect excessive noise and heat; cleans carbon deposits, pitch and grease from fans, vents and ducts.
• Replaces and/or repairs minor problems, electric motors and related equipment, ice machine problems, minor steam systems, and pump problems.
• Adjusts valves to regulate temperature of lubrication oil and flow of water through system; moves controls to regulate speed of fans and to adjust vents and ducts.
• Records gauge readings, repairs completed, and time lost because of inoperative equipment.
• This position will primarily work in Residential and Dining buildings across campus.
• Performs daily routine inspections of building main mechanical room equipment.
• Troubleshoots, monitors, and makes minor adjustments to building automation controls.
• Other duties as assigned.
• May be assigned to the on call rotation.

** This position is considered to be essential personnel, and may require working overtime, which could include nights and weekends as needed. May be required to work specific weekend events a few times a year

High school diploma/GED equivalent and three years of experience in related maintenance/repair field. Substitution of education for experience allowed. Employees in this job may be responsible for conducting research on, working on, or having the ability to access critical organizational infrastructure and they must be able to maintain the security and integrity of the infrastructure related to this role.

• Knowledge of and skill in use of standard tools, equipment, materials, methods, and practices of general maintenance task.
• Knowledge of the hazards and safety precautions of general…