Stationary Engineer Hospital

To construct, repair or recognize impending problems by visualizing and analyzing, using gathered data, experience, instrumentation and applied sciences to make decisions and determine urgency for repair or outage of building equipment, including, but not limited to absorption, centrifugal, reciprocating water chillers, fans, pumps, heat exchangers, compressors, automatic temperature controls HVAC equipment, boilers and steam operated equipment and preventive maintenance and maintenance of mechanical rooms. Knowledge of equipment to minimize the time required to diagnose problems and declare corrective action. Knowledge of tools, hoisting, rigging and equipment necessary to isolate, remove, repair, replace and safely startup. Perform other duties as assigned.


Trade School graduate. A current validated Philadelphia Class "A" Engineers license. A minimum of (5) five years experience in the operation and maintenance of high pressure boilers and auxiliary equipment, including de-aerators, feed-water pumps, forced draft fans, steam lines and traps, water softeners, air compressors and other job related equipment. A broad range of General Building operation and or maintenance of; fans, pumps, air compressors, operating large tonnage air conditioning units, boilers and steam operated equipment. Additional General Building maintenance and repair of building heaters and central air conditioning equipment. Boiler Room maintenance and repair skills surrounding building and all related Boiler Room equipment. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Required Skills and Abilities:
*Familiarity with Federal, State and local laws and regulations pertaining to equipment operation and repair.
*Preventative maintenance procedures to minimize repairs and reduce outages.
*Capable of assembling a complete list of parts necessary to facilitate repairs or installations.
*Ability to evaluate the thoroughness and quality of vendor repaired equipment and their use of parts.
*Trouble-shooting equipment and systems and coordinate with other trades, such as: electricians, instrument tech, etc.
*Skills to communicate recommendations to supervisor.
*Perform test to measure, to list a few, air velocity, air temperature, line temperatures and pressures, etc.
*Capable of welding, cutting, bracing and soldering whether antimony or silver.

Preferred:
*Completion of a union apprenticeship program.

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