Lead HVAC & Refrigeration Foreman – Travel

Climate Pros; Naples (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Florida travel opportunities

Job summary

Climate Pros in Naples, FL is seeking an experienced Construction Foreman to lead commercial refrigeration and HVAC crews on site. You will coordinate daily work, ensure safety, monitor progress, and maintain project documentation while delivering projects on time and within budget.

You will mentor field technicians, read mechanical drawings, and coordinate with project managers, customers, and other trades. This is a hands-on, working-foreman role requiring travel across Florida.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of verifiable HVAC, refrigeration, or mechanical-construction experience, including demonstrated crew-leadership responsibility.
• Advanced ability to read mechanical drawings and specifications and apply installation methods, code requirements, safety practices, scale, and field layout.
• Working knowledge of labor planning, material management, job costing, progress tracking, field reporting, quality control, and construction coordination.
• Hands-on experience with commercial systems and components such as RTUs, VAVs, fan-powered boxes, fan coils, split and VRF systems, hydronic systems, chillers, boilers, piping, ductwork, controls, air handlers, exhaust systems, supports, line sets, insulation, and startup activities.
• Ability to lead while performing productive field work. This is a hands-on, working-foreman position.
• Strong coaching, communication, organization, conflict-resolution, decision-making, and practical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accurate documentation, and hold the crew accountable without compromising safety or quality.
• Professional conduct, integrity, adaptability, growth orientation, and a consistent commitment to doing the work safely.

Responsibilities

• Lead, guide, teach, mentor, and work alongside assigned field employees while maintaining accountability for safety, quality, productivity, conduct, and daily progress.
• Plan daily and weekly work; establish clear production expectations and adjust labor, materials, tools, and installation sequence to maintain milestones and budgets.
• Complete and maintain job hazard analyses, toolbox talks, spot inspections, daily reports, progress documentation, labor information, field measurements, and required photos.
• Read and interpret mechanical drawings, specifications, schedules, submittals, and installation details; transfer drawing scale accurately to field layout and equipment locations.
• Perform accurate material takeoffs and maintain organized inventories of onsite materials, equipment, tools, and consumables.
• Coordinate work with project managers, customers, general contractors, subcontractors, refrigeration technicians, electricians, pipefitters, case setters, and other trades.
• Identify drawing conflicts, scope gaps, schedule risks, material shortages, safety concerns, and potential change conditions; communicate them promptly through the appropriate process.
• Fabricate or direct fabrication of sheet-metal transitions and offsets when required to maintain safe and productive field progress.
• Monitor workmanship and inspect installations for compliance with approved plans, specifications, codes, manufacturer requirements, and Climate Pros standards.
• Support installation, startup, and turnover of commercial HVAC and refrigeration equipment and systems while maintaining a clean, secure, and professional jobsite.
• Communicate project status, constraints, decisions, and customer needs clearly and professionally to field teams and project leadership.
• Follow all company, customer, OSHA, environmental, site-specific, and applicable collective bargaining requirements.

Skills

Crew leadership

Reading drawings

Labor planning

Communication

Problem solving

Safety focus

Time management

Education

High school diploma or GED

Universal EPA certification

OSHA 10

First Aid & CPR

OSHA 30 (preferred)

Job description

Climate Pros in Naples, FL is seeking an experienced Construction Foreman to lead commercial refrigeration and HVAC crews on site. You will coordinate daily work, ensure safety, monitor progress, and maintain project documentation while delivering projects on time and within budget.

You will mentor field technicians, read mechanical drawings, and coordinate with project managers, customers, and other trades. This is a hands-on, working-foreman role requiring travel across Florida.