Refrigeration Mechanic (Infrastructure Asset Management Services) - Atherton

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service; Atherton; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service is seeking a Refrigeration Mechanic to support Infrastructure Asset Management Services in Atherton. The role focuses on maintaining and installing refrigeration systems within a live health service environment, ensuring safety and continuity of clinical operations.

The successful candidate will perform gas evacuation/charging, high-quality soldering, and work within policies and standards to support facility maintenance across CHHHS assets in

Qualifications

• Experience installing air conditioning and refrigeration systems in a live health service environment.
• Ability to evacuate and charge gas circuits to high quality standards.
• Proficient in safe handling and soldering of refrigeration components.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of capital projects in a live health service delivery environment ensuring no adverse impacts on clinical service delivery, patients, visitors, and staff.
• Install air conditioning and refrigeration systems and sub-components with emphasis on evacuation and charging of gas circuits and silver soldering.
• Comply with policies, procedures, Regulations and Standards including Workplace Health and Safety and Equal Employment Opportunity policies.

Skills

Refrigeration systems

Gas evacuation

Silver soldering

Job description

Refrigeration Mechanic (Infrastructure Asset Management Services) - Atherton

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service – Atherton QLD

Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) provides planning, construction, operation and maintenance of all Health Service physical facilities, engineering systems, plant and equipment to meet strategic objectives within a quality environment. IAM is staffed with professional, trade operational, and administrative staff. Trades include electrical, fitting, plumbing, carpentry, refrigeration, trade assistants and apprentices.

The unit is accountable for facility maintenance and asset management in CHHHS and ensures all clinical and administrative buildings are compliant with statutory checks and inspections necessary to comply with Acts, Regulations, Codes of Practice and Australian Standards. IAM provides 24-hour corrective maintenance and breakdown service for the facilities around the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

Our values were developed by our staff, patients and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About your opportunity:

In this position you will….

• Support the delivery of capital projects in a live health service delivery environment ensuring no adverse impacts of on clinical service delivery, patients, visitors, and staff.
• Install air conditioning and refrigeration systems and sub-components with specific emphasis on evacuation and charging of gas circuits with the ability to conduct high quality silver soldering to effect same.
• Comply with and utilise policies, procedures, Regulations and Standards which impact upon the position, and practices such as Workplace Health and Safety, Equal Employment Opportunity and Anti-Discrimination Policies.

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.

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