Senior Commercial Refrigeration Startup Technician (Travel)

Climate Pros; Fort Myers (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Climate Pros in Fort Myers, FL, is seeking an experienced Construction Start-Up Technician to provide journeyman-level support for pre-start, startup, commissioning, and turnover of commercial refrigeration systems. You will work with rack systems, display cases, walk-in coolers, and microprocessor controls, ensuring safety, leak-free operation, and design intent before handoff.

Expect statewide travel to Florida projects (~80%), with a strong emphasis on safety, quality workmanship, and ongoing

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of supermarket or commercial refrigeration and freezer experience, including rack refrigeration and startup or commissioning responsibility.
• Advanced knowledge of refrigeration electrical, mechanical, piping, controls, pressure-testing, evacuation, charging, leak-detection, and troubleshooting practices.
• Demonstrated experience with energy‑management controls and rack‑refrigeration platforms.
• Ability to read blueprints, schematics, and commissioning documents.

Responsibilities

• Provide knowledgeable, professional workmanship and technical oversight during pre-start, startup, commissioning, and project turnover activities.
• Review project drawings, specifications, sequences of operation, manufacturer requirements, and startup documentation before energizing equipment.
• Complete pre-start inspections and verify piping, electrical connections, controls, sensors, valves, refrigerant circuits, equipment readiness, and required safety devices.
• Start, test, adjust, and fine-tune single and parallel rack refrigeration systems, display cases, walk-in systems, compressors, condensers, controls, and related components.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, refrigerant-flow, microprocessor-control, communication, and sequence-of-operation issues.
• Configure and troubleshoot energy-management and refrigeration-control platforms, including Novar, CPC, Danfoss, Micro Thermo, RDM, and comparable systems.

Skills

Refrigeration experience

Startup/commissioning

Troubleshooting

Education

High school diploma or GED

EPA Universal Certification

Tools

Novar

CPC

Danfoss

Micro Thermo

RDM

Job description

Climate Pros in Fort Myers, FL, is seeking an experienced Construction Start-Up Technician to provide journeyman-level support for pre-start, startup, commissioning, and turnover of commercial refrigeration systems. You will work with rack systems, display cases, walk-in coolers, and microprocessor controls, ensuring safety, leak-free operation, and design intent before handoff.

Expect statewide travel to Florida projects (~80%), with a strong emphasis on safety, quality workmanship, and ongoing