Principal Functions

The General Manager directs the daily operations of the HVAC Department by successfully performing the following tasks, duties, and responsibilities:

• Schedules, directs, and provides technical support for technicians to meet service demands and customers’ expectations
• Interviews, hires, and trains technicians as required to meet workload demands, and company or customer expectations and requirements
• Supervises and directs the technicians to effectively perform the functions of equipment repair, installation, start-up, operation, and other duties as required to ensure customer satisfaction
• Reviews technicians’ work to ensure quality meets established standards, techniques and safety requirements; makes recommendations as requirements to improve quality and productivity
• Responsible for technicians’ performance appraisals, reviews and for setting improvement goals per company requirements
• Establishes and maintains a regular training program to ensure that technicians are properly trained on the latest service techniques and safety procedures for equipment and general working conditions
• Conducts group and one-on-one meetings with technicians as required for training, evaluation, and general communication; participates and/or conducts regularly scheduled departmental safety/informational meetings
• Communicate regularly with dispatch to ensure that personnel are being scheduled properly by skill level, efficiency and training requirements
• Communicates daily with dispatch reporting on project information, estimated time to complete jobs, labor hours, and parts or materials used
• Maintains communication with vendors and factory personnel concerning warranty issues, product recall notices, operational problems with products, premature failures and other issues as they apply to products and equipment sold and serviced
• Develops and monitors budgets, goals, and objectives to ensure departmental profitability
• Reviews work orders, invoices, and time reports for accuracy, and to ensure timely cash flow and maintain minimal account receivables
• Specifies and makes sure that required parts are ordered in a timely fashion to ensure work deadlines are met
• Ensures that all company/department policies are being followed by all technicians
• Oversees assigned service vehicles, monitors vehicles to ensure they are being maintained and operated as required and used according to company policy
• Monitors service vehicles to ensure they are in an acceptable condition to allow technicians to efficiently work out of the vehicle, and that an adequate inventory of parts and materials are maintained
• Keeps current with the latest training on current products, coordinates technician training, and maintains training records to ensure personnel maintain proficiency in preventive maintenance, start-up, troubleshooting, and repair of supported equipment
• Generate sales leads; and promotes and develops maintenance/service agreements; estimates and generates bids for contract projects/work
• Manages larger installation, start-up and commissioning projects; coordinates and directs a team of technicians and/or installing contractors; performs prestart-up inspections and completes turnover of equipment to owner
• Work with other departmental managers to meet company and departmental goals and objectives
• Other tasks and responsibilities as required to maintain efficient department operations