Commercial Refrigeration Technician
Seattle, WAJob$48.7–65.8/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Commercial Refrigeration Technician provides equipment, refrigeration, and HVAC maintenance, repair, and support for assigned service calls. The role includes preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, equipment repairs, and support for other technicians. The technician also communicates with store personnel, maintains service documentation and parts inventory, and coaches and trains technicians.
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Full job description
Position Summary:
Provide equipment, refrigeration and HVAC maintenance, repair and support to assigned service calls. Assist with the development of technicians' knowledge, skills and abilities. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Drive independently to stores on a daily basis as assigned.
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Perform various preventive maintenance tasks and procedures, including audits.
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Perform repairs to systems.
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Maximize optimum performance of equipment by utilizing the applicable instrumentation or data.
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Navigate and investigate electronic controls interfaces.
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Assist with and perform various preventive maintenance tasks and procedures to buildings and equipment.
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Troubleshoot issues and repair equipment.
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Perform compressor, large motor and component replacement.
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Maintain an accurate and organized inventory of parts.
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Operate equipment, vehicles, powered industrial trucks and aerial lifts safely.
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Clean and maintain company service vehicles, if one is assigned.
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Orally communicate with store personnel regarding the proper use of equipment as it relates to repeat calls and overtime.
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Utilize company email system to send and receive messages.
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Properly complete all repair, labor, parts purchasing and usage documentation in a timely fashion.
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Comply with all department and company policies and procedures.
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Provide input to supervisor and management towards maintenance best practices.
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Audit registered store equipment identification lists.
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Assist other skilled trade technicians in repairs as requested.
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Provide feedback on performance reviews.
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Coach, mentor and train other technicians.
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Physical demands include, but are not limited to, high aptitude for standing and walking endurance, sitting while driving to various stores, lifting and carrying up to 70 pounds, pushing and pulling climbing ladders of various types, bending, squatting, and kneeling, and working in different temperatures inside and outside the store.
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Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
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Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
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Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
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Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
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Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
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Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
QUALIFICATIONS
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Experience reading engineering drawings, manuals and schematics
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Supervisory experience
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High school diploma or equivalent
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7+ years proven refrigeration/HVAC experience and satisfactory overall performance
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EPA Type 2 Certification
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Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office
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Advanced technical training or related technical certifications
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Ability to use and instruct others in the use of control manufacturer software
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Must hold and maintain a valid drivers license
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Ability to work a flexible schedule, including nights, weekends, holidays and overtime when necessary
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Demonstrated mentoring and training experience
$48.70 - $65.80 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 1,328 open HVAC Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$48.7–65.8/hr
- Washington median$36–66/hr24 hourly ranges
- US median$29–42/hr577 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $57.25/hr, is 21% above the Washington median midpoint ($48/hr) — in the top quarter of HVAC Technician hourly ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 34 open HVAC Technician jobs in Washington and 1,328 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- MacDonald-Miller11 open
- CBRE8 open
- Kroger Family of Companies (this employer)4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four HVAC Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 848 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 580 of the 1,328 open HVAC Technician jobs (44%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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