Part-Time Refrigeration Maintenance Technician (Weekends)

Workstream; Kennett Square (Chester County); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Workstream is seeking an experienced refrigeration preventive maintenance technician to visit Dunkin’ locations and other sites in Delaware County and Northeast Philadelphia. You will perform weekly visits, 4–6 hours per site, on weekends, with a rotation planned eight weeks ahead.

You will clean, inspect, measure, and report on condensers, ice machines, walk-ins, reach-ins, and dispensers, ensuring failures are caught early.

Qualifications

• Required: hands-on commercial refrigeration experience — from an HVAC company, a supermarket chain, a restaurant group, or foodservice equipment service work
• Required: your own hand tools, coil cleaning equipment, gauges, thermometer and clamp meter
• Required: reliable transportation, valid driver's license, smartphone for photos and reports
• Required: you show up on schedule, every week, without being chased
• Preferred: EPA 608 certification
• Preferred: you live in or near Delaware County, Chester County, or Northeast Philadelphia

Responsibilities

• Condeners: pull covers, brush and vacuum the fins, wash where needed, verify clean airflow
• Ice machines: full teardown clean and sanitize per manufacturer schedule, water filter change on cycle, check water lines, harvest cycle and bin controls
• Walk-in coolers and freezers: coil and evaporator cleaning, defrost cycle check, drain lines clear, door gaskets, hinges, closers and sweeps, curtain strips, verify box temperature against setpoint
• Reach-ins and undercounters: condenser clean, gasket condition, fan operation, temperature check
• Beverage and frozen dispensers: condenser clean, seals, drip and drain check
• Readings: record suction and discharge temperatures, superheat where applicable, box temperatures, amp draw on compressors and fans
• Minor adjustments: belts, fan motors, thermostat calibration, door alignment, gasket replacement, filter swaps
• The report: a short written summary per visit, with photos, telling us what you cleaned, what you measured, what is starting to look wrong, and what needs a vendor before it fails

Skills

Hands-on refrigeration experience

Own hand tools

Reliable transportation

Punctual/schedule

EPA 608 certification

Tools

coil cleaning equipment

gauges

thermometer

clamp meter

Job description

We run three Dunkin' locations in Delaware and Chester County plus a beer distributor in Northeast Philadelphia. Every one of them lives or dies on refrigeration — ice machines, walk-in coolers and freezers, reach-ins, and beverage dispensers. When a compressor fails on a Saturday morning, it costs us real money.

We are not hiring someone to fix breakdowns. We have vendors for that. We are hiring one experienced person to prevent them.

You visit one store per week and give every refrigeration unit in that building a full preventive service — clean it, inspect it, measure it, write it up. Four locations in the rotation means each site sees you about once a month, year round. Same list, same checklist, every time.

The schedule

• One location per visit, roughly 4–6 hours depending on the site
• Weekends, on the day and start time that suits you
• You get the rotation eight weeks ahead so you can plan around your full-time job

What you will do at each location

• Condensers: pull covers, brush and vacuum the fins, wash where needed, verify clean airflow
• Ice machines: full teardown clean and sanitize per manufacturer schedule, water filter change on cycle, check water lines, harvest cycle and bin controls
• Walk-in coolers and freezers: coil and evaporator cleaning, defrost cycle check, drain lines clear, door gaskets, hinges, closers and sweeps, curtain strips, verify box temperature against setpoint
• Reach-ins and undercounters: condenser clean, gasket condition, fan operation, temperature check
• Beverage and frozen dispensers: condenser clean, seals, drip and drain check
• Readings: record suction and discharge temperatures, superheat where applicable, box temperatures, amp draw on compressors and fans
• Minor adjustments: belts, fan motors, thermostat calibration, door alignment, gasket replacement, filter swaps
• The report: a short written summary per visit, with photos, telling us what you cleaned, what you measured, what is starting to look wrong, and what needs a vendor before it fails

That last item matters most. The value of this job is catching the failure eight weeks before it happens.

What you will not do

• No emergency or after-hours calls
• No sealed-system work, refrigerant recovery or charging as part of the routine visit

If something is broken and you want to fix it on the spot, we are open to that as separate paid work, case by case. It is never an expectation of the weekly visit.

Pay

Hourly, based on experience. Paid weekly. We will talk about the number on the first call.

What we need from you

• Required: hands-on commercial refrigeration experience — from an HVAC company, a supermarket chain, a restaurant group, or foodservice equipment service work
• Required: your own hand tools, coil cleaning equipment, gauges, thermometer and clamp meter
• Required: reliable transportation, valid driver's license, smartphone for photos and reports
• Required: you show up on schedule, every week, without being chased
• Preferred: EPA 608 certification
• Preferred: you live in or near Delaware County, Chester County, or Northeast Philadelphia

Ideal fit: someone already working full-time in HVAC or refrigeration who wants steady, predictable weekend income with no on-call burden.

Locations in the rotation

Media, PA · Broomall, PA · Kennett Square, PA · Northeast Philadelphia (Linden Beer, Frankford Ave)

Qualified applicants get a call within two business days. The first visit is a paid ride-along at one location so both sides can see if it works.