Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
Picture yourself brightening someone’s day. When you join our Hotels team, that’s exactly what you’ll do every time you come to work! As a HVAC Technician, you’re not just maintaining the hotel’s physical safety and functionality – you’re spreading the light and warmth of hospitality by delivering memorable experiences that make the stay for every guest.
ResponsibilitiesHere's what you'll do during a typical day:
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, repair, and maintain single-phase and three-phase refrigeration systems, electrical circuits, and control components.
- Fabricate, install, modify, repair, and maintain HVAC duct work and associated mechanical systems in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, and safety standards.
- Demonstrate practical knowledge of sheet metal selection, including galvanized iron (GI), aluminum, stainless steel, and other suitable duct materials.
- Carry out duct cladding, insulation, lagging, sealing, and weatherproofing to minimize heat gain, condensation, air leakage, and energy losses.
- Install, inspect, and maintain air distribution systems, including supply and return air ducts, exhaust systems, diffusers, grilles, dampers, plenum boxes, flexible connectors, and duct accessories.
- Perform duct routing, air diversion, resizing, retrofitting, and system modifications to improve airflow, resolve distribution issues, and accommodate building changes.
- Maintain and service commercial refrigeration equipment, including reach-in/upright single- and double-door refrigerators and freezers, chest freezers, blast freezers, undercounter refrigerators, ice-making machines, ice cream machines, and other refrigeration appliances.
- Inspect and maintain compressors, condensers, evaporators, fans, thermostats, pressure switches, solenoid valves, expansion devices, and associated refrigeration components.
- Demonstrate working knowledge of electric motor starter connections, including direct-on-line (DOL) starters, contactors, overload relays, control wiring, and motor protection devices.
- Troubleshoot refrigeration and HVAC control systems, including temperature controllers, sensors, timers, relays, contactors, and basic electronic control circuits.
- Carry out preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, performance checks, temperature monitoring, and operational testing to ensure equipment functions within specified parameters.
- Identify refrigerant leaks, abnormal operating pressures, electrical faults, poor cooling performance, and compressor or motor failures; perform repairs and refrigerant handling in accordance with applicable safety and environmental requirements.
- Support the maintenance of ice-making and ice cream machines, ensuring proper operation, hygiene, and compliance with food safety requirements.
- Maintain accurate maintenance logs, equipment service records, fault reports, and spare-parts inventories.
- Respond promptly to equipment breakdowns, particularly in kitchens, food storage facilities, restaurants, and other critical hotel operational areas.
- Coordinate with the engineering team and external service providers while minimizing disruption to hotel operations and guest services.
- Comply with hotel procedures, electrical safety standards, lockout/tagout requirements where applicable, and permit-to-work systems.
- Assist in the operation and maintenance of AHUs, FCUs, ventilation fans, exhaust systems, refrigeration equipment, and associated HVAC&R components.
- Operate, inspect and troubleshoot two 800TR and two 400TR water cooled Trane chiller plants connected to three BAC cooling towers through distribution pumps and piping network.
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
- Minimum of 2 years of practical experience in HVACR involving ductwork, domestic and commercial refrigeration maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair.
- Technical certificate, diploma, apprenticeship, or vocational training in refrigeration and air conditioning, mechanical/electrical engineering, or a related discipline is an advantage.
- Good understanding of single-phase and three-phase electrical systems, motor starters, refrigeration circuits, and HVAC controls.
- Practical familiarity with commercial refrigeration equipment used in hotels, restaurants, kitchens, and cold storage facilities.
- Hands-on experience with HVAC ductwork.
- Ability to use electrical testing instruments, refrigeration gauges, and service tools safely and effectively.
- Strong fault-finding, problem-solving, record-keeping, and teamwork skills.
Commitment to safety, equipment reliability, hygiene, energy efficiency, and five-star hospitality service standards.
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
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