Experienced or Entry Level Heating / Cooling (HVAC) Technician
Are you dependable and conscientious? Do you like fixing things and do you enjoy a challenge? Do you take pride in a job well done? Are you a quick learner? Can you read and understand an instruction manual? Are you enthusiastic and well-liked by most everyone you meet? Can you work independently, yet be part of a team? Do you see the glass as half full rather than half empty? Can you handle difficult people as easily as water runs off the back of a duck? Do you have a good driving record and are you drug free?
Prominent Sussex County Company has a fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Heating & Cooling (HVAC) Technician / Professional Driver. You’ll want to apply for this position if you have experience and are looking to work for a great company or if you don’t have experience and are anxious to learn a trade which offers worldwide opportunity. For additional information call our 24 hour job hotline 877-714-3320. Hart & Iliff Fuel and Energy Systems, 4 Hampton Street, Newton, NJ 07860
How does this sound?
- Excellent pay ($50,000 and up, once fully trained)
- Work independently without someone looking over your shoulder
- Great benefits
- Challenging and rewarding work
- Opportunity to continually learn and grow
- Tremendous job security
- Respected professional
- Worldwide employment opportunities
- Complete training program
So what’s the catch?
To be hired for this position, you’ll need to take several assessments which will demonstrate to us whether you’ve got:
- Superior mechanical ability
- The ability to read and understand an instruction manual
- Good people skills
- A good attitude and work ethic
- Strong references from previous employers
We are located in Newton, New Jersey so make sure you live within 30 miles of Newton before applying.
Experience:
Experience is a plus, but is not a necessity because of our extensive training program which is explained in detail below.
What the job entails:
This is a full time position including vacation, sick/personal time, medical benefits and a 401(k) profit sharing plan.
We’ll enroll you in our Registered Apprenticeship Training Program and teach you everything you need to know about heating and air conditioning (HVAC) to ultimately becoming a Licensed New Jersey Certified Master HVACR Contractor. You’ll also get your Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and learn how to drive a fuel truck and make deliveries to our customers. Depending upon the time of year and our workload, you may be asked to flip back and forth between being a heating & cooling technician and a professional driver.
Once you are fully trained as a heating & cooling technician you’ll be provided with a company van and all the equipment you need to install, service and repair heating and air conditioning systems for our customers. Most times you’ll be working on your own but other times you’ll be working as part of a team.
Every day you have a chance to be a hero. You’ll be keeping our customers warm in the winter and cool in the summer and they’ll love you for it. They’ll give you sincere appreciation, tips and if you’re lucky, on occasion a piece of apple pie hot out of the oven.
We’re serious about providing our customers with outstanding service. So you’ll be expected to have a great attitude and the technical proficiency (see training below) to make outstanding service happen. Once you’re fully trained and working on the heating & cooling side of things, one of your responsibilities will be to participate in a rotation with our other technicians to handle emergency calls in the evenings and on weekends.
This will allow you to receive a number of significant benefits:
- Use of the company van to commute to and from work each day.
- Extra “stand by” money for each day you are on call.
- Time and one-half for all emergency calls.
Job Security:
Are you tired of worrying about being laid off or losing your job? All professions are affected to some degree by the health of the economy. However the heating/cooling industry is affected much less in an economic downturn than other industries. When recessions occur, people will cut back on discretionary expenditures. However, they will always need to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Because heating & cooling systems are necessities, heating/cooling (HVAC) professionals and CDL drivers enjoy unusually good job security.
Worldwide Opportunity:
Industrialized countries around the world use central heating and air conditioning systems in both residential and commercial buildings. These systems run more than the average automobile. Whether you are freezing in Alaska, sweating in Florida or chilling in California, heating and air conditioning systems need annual maintenance and if they breakdown, need to be repaired quickly and efficiently. Anyone who is skilled in this field can go anywhere in the industrialized world and get a high paying job. We know of a heating/cooling (HVAC) technician who moved to the United States from South Korea. Although his English was iffy, he had no trouble finding work.
Challenging and rewarding work:
There are 3 basic types of heating systems, warm air, hot water (hydronic) and steam. Within these categories there are many different types of equipment. Air conditioning can be totally separate or, in some cases, incorporated into the heating system. New systems are constantly being developed which operate more efficiently and in a more environmentally friendly way. Keeping up with these changes assures you’ll never get bored.
If you like working with your hands, enjoy learning, are up for a challenge and like to see people with a smile on their face, this may be the job for you.
Training Program:
If you’ve taken courses or have experience in the HVAC field, great. If not, don’t worry. As long as you have the aptitude and attitude to excel in the field, we’re prepared to train you. Why are we willing to take the time and spend the money to do this? The answer is that there is a national shortage of CDL drivers and good heating/cooling (HVAC) technicians. Our willingness to find, hire and train great people gives us an advantage over our competitors.
In 3 months, our training program will teach you as much as you’d learn if you went to school at night for 18 months. First, we send you out with an experienced technician so you become familiar with the major parts of an HVAC system, learn some terminology and get a feel for what heating/cooling (HVAC) technicians do on a daily basis. After dipping your toes into the water, we move into the second phase of the training which takes approximately 9` weeks.
You’ll receive a mix of formal classroom training combined with practical experience in the field. We’ll send you for 4 weeks of classroom training. Additional formal training will be provided through HVACRedu.net, the largest online HVAC training provider. The field experience comes from working with one or more of our experienced technicians. This mixture of theory combined with field experience accelerates the learning curve. Once you finish the formal training program, we start to send you out on your own and slowly bring you along. Our training program qualifies as a US Department of Labor approved HVACR Apprenticeship program, which will put on track to ultimately become a licensed New Jersey Master HVACR Contractor.
During the training period, we pay your salary and all costs associated with the training program. We will be making a big investment in you and the only way we can get a return on our investment is if you work for us for a while. Therefore, we will ask you to sign a reimbursement agreement, which lasts three years, and covers a portion of the costs associated with the training. Reimbursement agreements are standard practice in industry and are routinely used by police departments when they train new officers. The purpose of the reimbursement agreement is to insure we get a reasonable return on our investment. If you take a job with another heating/cooling (HVAC) contractor, they will be getting the benefit of the training we gave you and should be expected to pay for part of the cost.
We’ll also send you out with an experienced professional driver so you can get your CDL and learn how to deliver heating oil to our customers.
Qualifications:
There are no specific educational requirements. However, to be successful you will need to possess the following skills and qualities:
- Superior Mechanical Aptitude
- Good people skills
- Positive attitude
- Good work ethic
- Enjoy working with your hands
- Take pride in a job well done
- Strong technical reading comprehension
- Be dependable and conscientious
- Have a good driving record
Applying for the job and joining our team:
Our philosophy in running our business is that we have two main assets, our customers and our employees. Since we can’t keep our customers happy without good employees, we view our employees as our most important asset. Consequently, we have low turnover, are very good to our employees and hiring the right ones is extremely important to us. Should you be invited to join our team, you’ll receive extensive training that will allow you to gain the knowledge and skills needed to develop a career, earn licenses, move up the ladder and make more money. This is truly a great opportunity for the right person.
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