Commercial Service Tech Needed- Boston Metro

[hvac_czar]

Hi Fellas,

One of New England’s largest Mechanical Contractors is seeking a seasoned commercial service tech to join our growing HVAC Service Department. Must be experienced and currently working in the field. Our service portfolio includes Institutional, Office, Lab, and Health Care clients. We offer highly competitive wages, a generous benefits package, and a great working environment. Position is available now, please reply with resume and cover letter.


Email in my profile, open shop, respond via email please as I don't make it back here as often as I used to.

[hvac_czar]

Where have all the techs gone? I have added 2 service techs in the last 6 months and with the department growing I need another but the pool of qualified applicants just is not there. We have tried expensive print ads, all kinds of internet ads including some of the more expensive options, word of mouth... Nothing. I have plenty of pizza delivery guys, landscapers, and tech school students applying but no solid guys with a few years under their belts. If I get one more resume from a pizza guy sporting an email address like "bong_hitzzz_2001@gmail.com" I will shoot myself! Any ideas, where have all the good techs gone? Position starts in the high 20's to low 30's for the right guy, potential into the low 40's with tenure, insurance $50 a week for family, newer truck, 401K, low stress with nobody doggin' you all day... Just need someone we don't have to babysit who wants to put in a little effort, is that too much to expect these days?

Rant over, thanks for listening!

[KnewYork]

Just need someone we don't have to babysit who wants to put in a little effort, is that too much to expect these days?

Yes, I believe it is...unfortunately.

[market-tech]

Unfortunately the pool of qualified technicians is shrinking rapidly. Us old dinosaurs are leaving the trade faster than the younger replacements are coming in.

We hired a person about 18 months ago. 25 years old, right out of college, worked as an electricians "gopher" while in college. Schooled and has a degree as an English Teacher!!

Will be a leader in supermarket refrigeration in the future. Took to supermarket refrigeration like a duck to water. Awesome work ethic, excellent critical and logical thinking. I'd take a dozen of them. He is the exception rather than the rule.

Good luck with your search!!

[hvac_czar]

Thanks fellas... The trades have been awesome for me, I know the trades are still an awesome career choice... I guess the times have changed.

[ReferYankee]

Id love to move back to MA and come work on some boilers again, but these 65 degree winters have stole my heart! If hurricane season is as bad as they are predicting, ill see you in the fall!

[meplumber]

Same problem up here Czar. I just recently hired a guy out of tech school. He appears to be the exception to the rule, because he actually shows up to work on time everyday and does whatever we tell him. I went through some real losers on the way to him. It is sad the state of the upcoming trade generation. They don't want to work. They want top pay right out of the gate and they think the world owes them something. Pitiful.

Good luck.

[Joehvac25]

Wish I was looking to relocate, sounds like a good gig. If you want to talk get ahold of me at bonghit420@baked.com! Just kidding I almost spit up my pepsi when I read that.

[hvac_czar]

Id love to move back to MA and come work on some boilers again, but these 65 degree winters have stole my heart! If hurricane season is as bad as they are predicting, ill see you in the fall!

If you do, look me up... Will be our busiest Winter ever on the construction side and service always follows construction here.

[hvac_czar]

Wish I was looking to relocate, sounds like a good gig. If you want to talk get ahold of me at bonghit420@baked.com! Just kidding I almost spit up my pepsi when I read that.

Got to have a little humor!

[blitz]

well, I'm not attached to anything in canada, wouldn't mind getting my hand into commercial refrigeration. The process to get work visas and stuff may take a while and whatever licensing req to work in MA

[Mike19]

Its a shame you're in Boston and not around here. I'd love a nice commercial job that wasn't 50% working on refrigeration and hot side in dirty kitchens.

[timebuilder]

Its a shame you're in Boston and not around here. I'd love a nice commercial job that wasn't 50% working on refrigeration and hot side in dirty kitchens.

I don't think you could pay me enough to live up there.

Open a shop in Philly, and I'm your new foreman.

[DLZ Dan]

Where have all the good techs gone?

Sounds like a song parody. (where have all the cowboys gone?)

[blitz]

I don't think you could pay me enough to live up there.

Open a shop in Philly, and I'm your new foreman.

is boston expensive place to live? it seems to be an expensive place to live being historic and university town and such? I've been there in the summer, it's jammed pack with tourists.

[coolwhip]

And all the streets are one way and go in circles.

Sounds like a good job offer OP, hope you find someone.

Curious that a pizza dude would apply for such a job...I don't see the connection.

[coolwhip]

You need this dude!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7gzmoqmL7g

[lancerbomb08]

email sent

[hvac_czar]

"is boston expensive place to live? it seems to be an expensive place to live being historic and university town and such? I've been there in the summer, it's jammed pack with tourists."




Compared to many places, yes. I live around 8 miles south, most of our work is on the periphery of Boston, you have to be way way outside the city (Western MA, NH) before housing is "affordable" by most measures. But like I say, the trades have been very good to me and I can afford to own a home close in.

[hvac_czar]

And all the streets are one way and go in circles.

Sounds like a good job offer OP, hope you find someone.

Curious that a pizza dude would apply for such a job...I don't see the connection.

Thanks Coolwhip,

True about the streets! All of them old cow paths!

Still looking for the right tech...

Lots of kids here go to "for profit" tech schools (ITT Tech, etc.) and find on graduating there are few entry level jobs available... they end up mowing grass, delivering pizza, etc while trying to catch a break into the trade. We already have our trainee that graduated tech school last year but knows very few of the required skills... (nice way of saying that the learning does not start till you are in a van).