Commercial Refrigeration and HVAC Technician

Rite-Air Mechanical Services a Smart Care Equipment Solutions affiliate is a full-service HVAC / R contractor, specializing in commercial air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration services.

Rite-Air Mechanical provides energy-efficient services for the installation, maintenance, and repair of a wide range of heating, cooling, ventilation, and refrigeration systems.

We have an opportunity for an HVAC / R Service Technician we are growing our Team!

We work with the owners and managers of commercial buildings, multiunit retail enterprises including restaurants, stores, pharmacies, and banks, hospitals, and medical facilities, schools and universities, office complexes, industrial businesses such as factories and warehouses.

Rite-Air Mechanical Services has more than 50 trucks on the road in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania.

We answer emergency calls 24 / 7.

What’s in it For Our Service Technicians :

• Performs skilled mechanical maintenance duties
• Inspection, repair, installation and alteration of District heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems
• Repair and maintain related equipment and facilities
• Perform preventive maintenance and servicing of equipment.

What Service Technicians Will Do :

• Inspect, repair, modify and install HVAC equipment including refrigeration and air-conditioning compressors, receivers, condensers, chillers, water cooling towers, forced air converter units, pumps, automatic and hand valves, expansion valves and capillary tubes.
• Conduct regular preventive maintenance inspections of refrigeration units, isolated heating and ventilating units, including boilers, gas and electrically operated air-conditioning equipment, and make necessary adjustments or repairs;

service and repair evaporative coolers.

• Repair or replace defective parts in units and equipment and their controls, including thermostats, automatic switches, fan controls, log switches, damper motors, louvers, relays, filters, controls, belts, compressors, heat exchangers, high limit controls, pressure controls, safety valves, and automatic gas valves.
• Operate a variety of hand and power tools, welder torch, vacuum pump, test equipment utilized in the trade and a motor vehicle;

maintain equipment in effective and safe working condition; maintain parts and tool inventory.

• Repair and rebuild semi-hermetic reciprocating compressors and compressors for centrifugal refrigeration machines.
• Perform skilled electrical maintenance work in the repair, installation and alteration of HVAC equipment, components, timers, motors and wiring systems as needed;

connect motors to control panels.

• Lubricate and pack heating, ventilation, refrigeration, and air-conditioning motors, pumps, fans, and other equipment.
• Install and calibrate systems; install copper tubing and repair pipes and tubing as necessary; test joints and insulate pipes of refrigeration and air conditioning systems;

flush boilers, descale tubing; rebuild pressure and temperature safety valves and water pumps.

• Install, rebuild, replace or repair fans, motors, thermostats, fuses, filters, bearings, valves, controls, gaskets and other equipment as necessary.
• Maintain related records concerning time, labor and materials; maintain log of tasks performed and write reports as required

Physical Requirements :

• Work is performed while standing, sitting and / or walking.
• Ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing.
• Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching.
• Ability to lift, carry, push or pull medium weights, up to 75 pounds
• Requires activities involving being around moving machinery, exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity, and exposure to dust, fumes and gases.

Minimum Qualifications :

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Two years of HVAC journeyman level operation, maintenance and repair experience in the HVAC and refrigeration trade.
• Valid driver’s license and acceptable motor vehicle record
• Willingness and ability to be involved with the emergency on-call rotation that includes nights and weekends

Preferred Qualifications :

• Relevant technical training, licenses, and / or certifications (i.e. EPA,)
• Commercial refrigeration equipment repair experience
• Self-motivated with the proven ability prioritize and work independently with minimal direct supervision

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Smart Care Equipment Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities, as well as all other qualified individuals, are encouraged to apply.

About the Company

Smart Care is a national repair and service provider for commercial foodservice, refrigeration, and cold storage equipment.

Our offering of comprehensive mechanical services includes hot side cooking equipment, stand-alone refrigeration, specialty coffee and beverage, complex rack refrigeration and HVAC.