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General Information

Work Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 6:30am - 3:00pm
Posted Date
06/17/2025
Salary Range: $62.01 - 62.01 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
indefinite
Job #
25123

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Serving at UCLA Health will give you the opportunity to use your specialized abilities to help improve the lives of our patients, their families, and your fellow UCLA Health team members. You’ll provide critical support that makes healing happen. We’d love to have you join us.


Under general supervision, Service Engineer operates, maintains, repairs and inspects heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration equipment and associated water systems; tests, adjusts, and calibrates boiler and air conditioning system mechanical, electrical, and electronic controls; maintains, inspects, analyzes and makes emergency repairs to steam and heating and cooling water piping distribution systems; regularly uses features of building automation systems to diagnose and troubleshoot problems in HVAC systems while optimizing energy usage; monitors building automation systems data and makes adjustments as appropriate; performs service calls with a high level of customer satisfaction focus; maintains logs of maintenance and repairs using manual and computerized record-keeping systems; and may instruct and lead semi-skilled or unskilled assistants.  Additionally, incumbent may be assigned to alternate work schedules, including weekends.


Salary Rate: $59.62/hourly

Job Qualifications

  • EPA approved "Universal" Certification in refrigerant usage.
  • Five or more years of journey level experience in the operation, maintenance, and repair of heating,
  • ventilating and air conditioning equipment.
  • Ability to perform duties in compliance with all safety practices and regulations.
  • Ability to perform preventative and planned maintenance.
  • Ability to use an energy management system.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to provide excellent customer service in a diverse working environment.
  • Ability to use standard office equipment (e.g. desktop computer), standard office software (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat Reader), and the Internet 
  • Commitment to maintaining a welcoming and inclusive work environment with diverse colleagues and constituents including faculty, students, staff, and members of the community.
  • Ability to safely move up to 50 pounds in a variety of work environments.
  • Ability to wear personal protective equipment as necessary.

Preferred

  • Completion of an apprenticeship program leading to journey-level HVAC technician or operating engineer