**Description** **About Austin Industrial** Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial . **Austin Industrial** is currently seeking a **HVAC Technician** to join our staff located at **Franklin, VA.** They must be able to perform installs, repairs and maintenance to a variety of equipment including: refrigeration, air conditioning, electric motors, heating units, heat pumps, hermetic compressors, commercial furnaces, boilers, burners, intake and exhaust fans, economizers, humidifiers, capacity controls, semi-hermetic compressors, split systems, flame safeguard controls, air compressors, air driers, and packaged units throughout the district. Other duties may be assigned. **Specific Duties and Responsibilities:** + Diagnose, repair, and install plant mechanical systems in pulp and paper manufacturing industry. + Perform preventative maintenance on equipment like conveyors and presses + Read mechanical prints and diagrams (including HVAC systems) + Other duties as assigned. **Physical Demands** : + The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. + Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. + While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. + The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. + The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. + Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. **Qualifications:** + Experience – 5 years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment. + Critical thinking; predictive and preventative maintenance, finding root cause of failure. + Work positively with maintenance and operations teams to troubleshoot and solve problems. + Excellent teamwork, cooperation and problem-solving skills. + Ability to work alone, with a partner, or as a member of a team maintaining safety, quality & productivity. + Engage in preventative maintenance processes through facility. + Willingness to cross train and learn new skills in other technical areas to enhance capabilities. + Able to work with computer system for maintenance processes, stores and work order **Requirements** **:** + High school diploma or equivalent required. + Valid Driver's License + HVAC Certification required + Meet physical demands as listed above + Ability to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed by the assigned location + Ability to operate power tools and heavy equipment + Applicants must be legally able to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visa for this position. **Benefits & Compensation** We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. **We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)!** To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100-employee-owned. **Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.** _See_ the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRightsSp6.12.pdf) . **No Third-Party Inquiries Please** This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( _i.e._ , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company. **Accessibility Note** If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the **People Services Team** at **(877) 831-1217.** Equal Opportunity Employer This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.