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Duke University

Private research university in Durham, NC

HVAC Mechanic

Full-TimePosted on 8/31/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Raleigh, NC, USA
In Person
Building TradesHVAC & Building Systems

About the job

Requirements
  • Work requires an educational background normally equivalent to high school with coursework in skilled crafts.
  • EPA CFC certification is required.
  • Work requires 4 years of broad-based experience charging small refrigeration appliances, changing compressors, belts and valves, and adjusting and calibrating temperature and humidity controls, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
  • Ability to work with blueprints, schematics, and sketches.
  • Knowledge of HVAC maintenance and repair.
Responsibilities
  • Perform journeyman-level work installing, maintaining, modifying, overhauling, servicing, and repairing all types of air-conditioning and refrigeration systems and equipment.
  • Install, maintain, adjust, modify, and perform major overhaul and repair of refrigeration and air-conditioning systems by interpreting blueprints, manufacturer specifications, and written and verbal instructions.
  • Make initial settings and final adjustments of refrigeration and air-conditioning systems and modify existing installations to obtain required results.
  • Install, troubleshoot, repair or calibrate, and maintain reciprocating and centrifugal chillers, cooling towers, direct-expansion systems, electric blast coils, immersion coils, pumps, fans, starters, pneumatic and electric controls, electrostatic filters, domestic refrigerators, laboratory ultra-low-temperature boxes, walk-in coolers and freezers, fountain equipment, and ice makers.
  • Check and adjust complete air-conditioning and refrigeration systems after installation.
  • Charge all types of refrigeration equipment.
  • Follow a predetermined preventive-maintenance schedule and make recommendations regarding major system overhauls.
  • Provide technical guidance and direction to lower-level personnel.
  • Perform other related duties incidental to the described work.

About the company

Duke University is a research university offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional education alongside interdisciplinary research and health care.

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