Job Description

Salary: $53,222 - $90,090

Position Grade: 39T

Department: Multiple Departments

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1081

Location: Multiple Locations - St. Louis, MO

Applicants who meet the minimum experience and training requirements will start at $53,222 annually. Applicants who have successfully completed a bona fide apprenticeship program registered with the Department of Labor and obtained journeyman status will start at $60,060 annually.

Incumbents in this position are responsible for supervising and participating in installing, maintaining and repairing heating, ventilating and air conditioning and refrigerating equipment and systems within City buildings and facilities.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

● Providing documentation to support corrective and disciplinary actions Signing performance plans and appraisals.

● Resolving informal grievances or formal grievances at the first step. Starting the hiring process, interviewing applicants and recommending hires, transfers or promotions.

● Organizes, assigns and directs the work activities of subordinate staff to realize the unit’s work goals and to ensure the consistent application of unit and/or technical policies, procedures and guidelines.

● Confers with and counsels subordinate staff to exchange information and/or explain work policies, procedures and guidelines; and identify work-related problems, problem characteristics, impact and formulate possible solutions.

● Reviews and compares work performance and/or products of subordinate staff with established standards to determine employee production levels, training needs and to determine for recommendation to agency management appropriate personnel actions such as promotions, disciplinary actions, status changes, separations and grievance dispositions.

● Trains subordinate staff in the work principles, policies and or procedures to maintain and/or improve the production levels of employees in accordance with established work performance standards.

● Repairs, maintains and installs HVAC and refrigeration systems and equipment.

● Completes time sheets and work activity logs. Isolates and secures hazardous materials.

● May order parts, supplies and materials. Ensures compliance with work safety regulations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

● Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.

● Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide first line supervision. Ability to persuade, convince, and train employees. Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as leak detection equipment, volt/ohm meter, common hand and power tools, sheet metal tools, cutting torch, HVAC equipment controls, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as purchase orders, work orders, time sheets, work logs, employee leave requests, discipline reports, work safety City of St. Louis HVAC Foreman June 2000 Page 3 regulations, EPA regulations, material safety data sheets, diagrams, schematics, technical operating manuals, procedures and guidelines.

● Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, fractions and decimals; calculate surface area and volume; may require the ability to perform mathematical operations involving basic algebra and geometry.

● Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.

● Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

● Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, odors, wetness, humidity, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, electric currents, toxic/poisonous agents.

● Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, push and pull objects weighing over one hundred pounds such as HVAC and refrigeration equipment. Requires the ability to stoop, crouch, climb, balance, bend and twist to install HVAC and refrigeration equipment. Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes, sounds and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks. Incumbents are required to recognize and identify odors to detect chemical leaks, and sounds to detect equipment malfunctions. Requires the ability to distinguish object clearly at close and far range.

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