Senior Air Conditioning Installer - Eastern Suburbs

Ideal Air Melbourne Pty; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work vehicle provided

Sign-on bonus

Uniform furnished

Paid training days

Birthday leave

Job summary

Ideal Air Melbourne Pty is seeking a Senior Air Conditioning Installer for Melbourne's eastern suburbs. You will lead installations, perform fault-finding, and coordinate with the office for scheduling and ordering.

The role offers a senior, autonomous position with a strong diagnostic component and customer-facing duties, servicing both residential and commercial sites. A full trade qualification and local driver’s licence are essential.

Qualifications

• Trade qualification in air conditioning and refrigeration.
• Experience with residential and commercial systems.
• Ability to lead and manage installations.

Responsibilities

• Take a installation from site inspection through commissioning with crew and office support.
• Attend site, determine needs, measure, and explain to customer clearly.
• Fault-find accurately; utilise diagnostic practices and AI-assisted tools.
• Collaborate with customers and crew across residential and commercial sites.

Skills

Fault-finding

Diagnostic skills

Customer communication

Site supervision

Education

Full trade qualification in air conditioning and refrigeration

Tools

Hand tools

Job description

Senior Air Conditioning Installer - Eastern Suburbs

$50 to $60 per hour plus incentives | Vehicle | No on-call | No weekends

We're building up our team in Melbourne's eastern suburbs and are looking for an experienced technician who already lives out that way. Bayswater, Boronia, Ferntree Gully, Ringwood, Croydon, Wantirna, Vermont, Knoxfield and surrounding areas.

We schedule as close to home as we sensibly can. When a breakdown or service call comes in near you, you're the first person we look at. Installations work differently. Those run as a team, and the team goes where the work is, which is mainly in the South Eastern suburbs.

This is a senior role. We're looking for someone who can take charge of an installation and run it properly, but is just as comfortable turning up to a diagnostic callout when the answer isn't obvious.

The work

We work across residential and commercial air conditioning: ducted and multi-head systems, VRV and VRF, splits and commercial plant.

There's a genuine mix of installation, service and fault-finding. If you've had enough of doing the same thing every day, you'll find plenty of variety here.

What we're looking for

Someone who can:

Take an installation from site inspection through to commissioning, with the crew alongside you and the office behind you

Attend a site, work out what the job actually needs, take measurements and explain it to the customer in plain language

Fault-find properly. A lot of our work is diagnostic and we'd rather have someone who digs in than someone who guesses. Your diagnostic work is now supported with AI to make the process faster, easier and more accurate than ever before.

Work well with customers and the crew across both domestic and commercial sites

Trade background

A full trade qualification in air conditioning and refrigeration is the obvious fit.

We'll also talk to:

Dual-trade plumbers with solid air conditioning experience

Experienced electricians holding a split system installation certificate or Certificate II in split systems who have spent real time working in air conditioning installation

What matters to us is the depth of your air conditioning experience and how you fit with our crew, not only which certificate you started with.

You’ll also need:

Current Australian driver's licence and full rights to work in Australia

Your own hand tools. We supply everything else

What you get

$50 to $60 per hour, depending on experience, plus incentives on work you generate

$500 sign-on bonus

Your own work vehicle, and you may get to pick a new one

Superannuation, long service leave, work phone or allowance, uniform and paid training days

An extra paid day off on your birthday

The opportunity to join our charity projects in Vanuatu and Fiji from time to time. We cover the full cost for anyone on the team who wants to come. It's entirely optional and only when we're able to run them.

You’re not out there on your own

You'll have real autonomy over your jobs and we'll expect you to take charge of them.

But you'll also have a full office behind you handling scheduling, equipment and materials ordering, plus a team who actually answer the phone when you call.

You run the job. We make sure you have the support behind you to do it properly.

Where this can go

Our Operations Manager has been in the trade for more than 30 years and is starting to think about winding back.

Over the next few years, there's a genuine opportunity for the right person to move towards site inspections, quoting larger installations and eventually helping run the operation.

We're not promising that simply because you take the job. It has to be earned, and that direction won't suit everyone. But the opportunity is real for someone who wants to keep progressing.

About Ideal Air Melbourne

Ideal Air Melbourne is a well-established heating and cooling business working across Melbourne (and a branch in Brisbane). We care about professional development, work-life balance, doing good work, looking after our customers and giving our technicians the support and autonomy to do their jobs properly.

If you're an experienced air conditioning technician in Melbourne's eastern suburbs and this sounds like the kind of role you've been looking for, we'd like to hear from you.