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CG2, if they are having trouble filling that, with what appears a reasonable rate for the area, my guess would be that not many tech's, overall, are able to work on low pressure chillers. When I was in the Navy, the AC workhorse throughout the fleet was the 400 ton centrifical chiller, but, relative to the number of hermetic and semi hermetic AC's and reefer etc, not nearly as many techs have experience with chillers. Even though centrificals were our workhorse, only a few of us passed all the sections for the EPA test, and low pressure was the section people would miss. I don't know the name that company has with the local techs, or if they tend to have a high turnover rate, yet, the pay appears to be about average for that area. I'ld actually consider that if the company is stable. They aren't promising the moon, which is what would alarm me. I use to hate it when I first retired from the service, companies would email me with promises of $30.00 or more an hour. I knew the going rate was between $18.00 and $22.00, and no business was going to start me, even coming with experience, as high as $30.00 an hour unless the job required me to fix AC's and reefers in Saudi Arabia.

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Originally Posted by fitzyfitta

Bearfromobx, what is a California loop?

It's a common water source HP loop with boilers to add heat when solution temp goes too low and cooling towers or other heat rejection systems to get rid of heat when solution temp gets too high. The California Loop has the advantage of reusing the building's heat taken from the heat pumps in cooling mode by the heat pumps operating in heating mode during moderate outdoor temperatures.

Originally Posted by Ammonianite

That company is always posting for an HVAC supervisor at that site as well. Don't know whether they cannot find anyone or can't keep any that they do find. I figure something must be up with this company if they are always posting for techs and supervisors.

Most of the contracts are underbid or bid so tight that their hands are tied as supervisors. Stay on budget or be fired, period. They are not scared to send someone home. Turnover is really bad. They had a site in Midland that I went to and was an absolute trainwreck....

Bearfromobx, what is a California loop?

That company is always posting for an HVAC supervisor at that site as well. Don't know whether they cannot find anyone or can't keep any that they do find. I figure something must be up with this company if they are always posting for techs and supervisors.

Sounds like a building I'm working on now... Plant Ops crew of about seven including one HVAC tech covering 20 floors of California loop connected WSHPs with water chemistry problems allowing parts breakdown and contamination along with (so far) four pages of immediate problems and a strong likelyhood of flow problems. Nothing like job security!

Originally Posted by timebuilder

If you read my post in the "are you a first round draft pick sitting on the bench?" post in this section, you will see that there is never a shortage of workers for the right pay under the given circumstances.

Yeah, the invisible hand

If you read my post in the "are you a first round draft pick sitting on the bench?" post in this section, you will see that there is never a shortage of workers for the right pay under the given circumstances.

They been posting this job here for ages. Finally they took out a half page ad in the paper, evidently without salary. My dad sees it all excited and says this might the job I been looking for! Had to calm him down gently

The couple projects I knew about the budget was extremely tight. They look for general maintenance types with an EPA universal card. The facility I was at was 135,000 square feet and the staffing plan was for one person....

Originally Posted by ryan1088

They don't do any of the repairs on the bigger machines there. They sub out punching tubes and overhauls. I went and covered for a site for 3 weeks and it certainly wasn't for me.

So they are looking for a phone operator? I don't understand these places. They will hire a super tech that can smooth talk and not hack it in the field. Super tech will touch things he shouldn't and in a couple of years have a good deal of everything f'ed up. Then contractors come in and "screw us" because lord knows super tech knew what he was doing, his resume said so. They should contract out with a company that knows what they are doing. They might save money over the life of equipment.

Originally Posted by Freightshaker

Dang that's a good gig. I get paid in bean soup, enough for my whole family! Every once I awhile boss flips me a shiny new nickel for doing a good job. I almost have a whole tube sock full!

TUBE SOCKS. That's funny. Haven't seen those in years.

They don't do any of the repairs on the bigger machines there. They sub out punching tubes and overhauls. I went and covered for a site for 3 weeks and it certainly wasn't for me.

Dang that's a good gig. I get paid in bean soup, enough for my whole family! Every once I awhile boss flips me a shiny new nickel for doing a good job. I almost have a whole tube sock full!

Job security! Some poor kid is going to jump on that. Dive in with no life jacket and make some one a lot of money to swim in and save them.

So you guys want me to call the VP and recommend you?

How do they come up with the .86?