Service Mechanic (FT, Evening - Danbury)

Northwell Health; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 60,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health is seeking a Plant Services professional at Danbury Hospital to maintain all operating systems including steam, electricity, air, heat, cooling, water and medical gases. You will respond to facility issues across the hospital and ensure patient and staff comfort and safety.

The role requires at least seven years in hospital or industrial settings, strong mechanical aptitude, and experience with air handling units, boilers, chillers and preventive maintenance.

Qualifications

• High school diploma and seven years or more job related experience.
• Experience operating air handling units, heating systems, cooling systems, boilers, chillers, and refrigeration equipment.
• Good mechanical aptitude and strong analytical thinking are required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain plant services systems including steam, electricity, air, heat, cooling, water and medical gases.
• Respond to hospital facility issues and monitor the building management system.
• Perform boiler water analysis and preventive maintenance on mechanical equipment.
• Round on equipment rooms, repair equipment during off shifts, and log defects.
• Ensure patient and staff comfort and safety by minimizing service interruptions.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Analytical thinking

Hospital environment experience

Manual dexterity

Education

HS Grad/Equivalent

Tools

Boilers

Chillers

Air handling units

Maintenance pumps

Job description

Description

Northwell is the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, serving residents of New York and Connecticut with 28 hospitals, more than 1,000 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians. Northwell cares for more than three million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Northwell is New York State’s largest private employer with over 104,000 employees — including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners — who are working to change health care for the better.

Northwell is the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, serving residents of New York and Connecticut with 28 hospitals, more than 1,000 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians. Northwell cares for more than three million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Northwell is New York State’s largest private employer with over 104,000 employees — including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners — who are working to change health care for the better.

Summary

Maintains all Plant Services operating systems to include steam, electricity, air, heat, cooling, water, vacuum, medical gases, etc. Provides emergency alternatives for the above in the event of failures. Responds to any and all Facility issues that may arise anywhere in the hospital.

Responsibilities

• Ensures patient comfort and safety by reducing impact of basic service interruptions.
• Ensures staff and visitor comfort & safety.
• Ensures equipment is operating efficiently, and safely. By both rounding of mechanical rooms and monitoring equipment through the building management system (BMS).
• Performs boiler water analysis and treatment.
• Corrects and reports hazardous conditions noted on rounds. Monitors boiler pressures, tank levels, various leaks etc. Responds to Code Reds.
• Reports and logs all defective equipment, particularly if it pertains to safety.
• Repairs equipment, including patient items, during off shifts.
• Makes routine rounds (nightly) to all equipment rooms and machine spaces.
• Answers all calls from the facilities dispatcher and responds to all computer alarms.
• Responds to elevator problems.
• Performs preventive maintenance on air handling equipment.
• Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education: HS GRAD/EQUIVALENT

Other Information

Required: Experience working in a hospital or industrial environment. Must have good mechanical aptitude, analytical thinking skills, and at least 7 years of working in a hospital or an industrial environment. Experience in operating air handling units, heating systems, cooling systems, boilers, chillers, and refrigeration equipment. Experience in performing preventive maintenance on mechanical equipment to include filter changes, greasing bearings on pumps and motors etc.

Minimum Experience

High school diploma and seven years or more job related experience.

License

Required OE-2, or S1, or S2.

Working Conditions

• Manual: significant manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity
• Occupational: Significant occupational risk
• Physical Effort: Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force
• Physical Environment: Some exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.
• Company: Danbury Hospital
• Org Unit: 247
• Department: Plant Services
• Exempt: No
• Salary Range: $28.78 - $53.45 Hourly