HVAC job descriptions

Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 21 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the field. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.

Leadership 4

  • Chief Executive Officer

    An HVAC chief executive officer decides where a heating and cooling company is going and lines up the money, people and partners to get there.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    An HVAC chief operating officer makes sure the whole company can deliver the work it sells, from service calls and installs to tune-ups, dispatch and the warehouse.

  • Chief Financial Officer

    An HVAC chief financial officer runs the money side of a heating and cooling company: cash, budgets, forecasts, lenders and risk.

  • General Manager

    An HVAC general manager runs one heating and cooling business or branch day to day.

Managers 8

  • Field Supervisor

    An HVAC field supervisor checks the work of techs and installers on site, solves the problems a crew can't, and enforces safety on the job.

  • HR Manager

    An HVAC HR manager hires and keeps techs and office staff, and runs new-hire and safety training.

  • Marketing Manager

    An HVAC marketing manager keeps the phones ringing with repair, tune-up and replacement calls.

  • Office Manager

    An HVAC office manager runs the front office of a heating and cooling company.

  • Operations Manager

    An HVAC operations manager runs the field side of a heating and cooling company: service, installs, dispatch, the warehouse and the trucks.

  • Production Manager

    In residential HVAC, the production manager runs the install side of the business.

  • Sales Manager

    An HVAC sales manager runs the team that sells heating and cooling replacements in customers' homes.

  • Warehouse Manager

    An HVAC warehouse manager runs the stockroom that keeps a heating and cooling company working.

Office and sales 6

  • Customer Service Representative

    An HVAC customer service representative answers the phone when a furnace quits or an air conditioner stops cooling.

  • Dispatcher

    An HVAC dispatcher assigns heating and cooling calls to technicians, plans their routes, and keeps customers posted on arrival times.

  • Bookkeeper

    An HVAC bookkeeper keeps the books for a heating and cooling company.

  • Inventory Specialist

    An HVAC inventory specialist keeps parts, equipment and refrigerant stocked in the warehouse and on every service truck.

  • Sales Representative

    An HVAC sales representative visits homeowners whose heating or cooling system is failing or old.

  • Rehash Specialist

    An HVAC rehash specialist follows up with homeowners who got an estimate for a new system or a big repair but didn't buy.

In the field 3

  • HVAC Apprentice

    An HVAC apprentice learns the heating and cooling trade by working beside your techs on service, tune-up and install calls.

  • HVAC Technician

    An HVAC technician finds and fixes problems with furnaces, air conditioners and heat pumps in customers' homes, and runs your maintenance plan tune-ups.

  • Lead HVAC Technician

    A lead HVAC technician takes the hardest heating and cooling calls, the ones other techs couldn't solve or that keep coming back.

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