About the role
Location: Southeast, FL (serving tri-county area) About Us Air Force HVAC has been a trusted name in South Florida for over 5 years, delivering reliable residential HVAC service, installation, and maintenance across Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. Our slogan, “Your Home, Our Mission,” guides everything we do.
We are on track to grow 8x year-over-year at the top line as we expand our technician team, client base, and service offerings. To achieve this ambitious growth, we are seeking a hands-on Field Service Manager to help us scale with excellence, develop leaders, and ensure operational discipline.
Speed, craftsmanship, and consistency are non-negotiable in this position.
Primary Accountabilities
* Perform complex commercial HVAC service, diagnostics, repairs, commissioning support, preventive maintenance, and installation support. * Serve as the escalation point for difficult technical calls and validate diagnoses through measurements, operating data, schematics, and sequence of operation. * Mentor developing technicians, reinforce proper diagnostic methodology, and identify recurring training or performance gaps. * Coordinate professionally with property managers, building engineers, facility teams, general contractors, and commercial clients. * Maintain complete job documentation, equipment data, readings, photographs, parts requirements, * recommendations, and job-status communication. * Maintain company vehicle, tools, test instruments, and field resources in professional, job-ready condition. * Commercial Systems Competency * Strong field competency is expected across multiple commercial system categories, including: * Packaged rooftop units (RTUs) and commercial split systems * Water-source heat pumps (WSHP) and condenser-water-loop systems * VRF/VRV systems and variable-capacity commercial equipment * VAV systems, commercial air distribution, outside air, ventilation, and economizers * Chilled-water fan coils, air handlers, hydronic heating/cooling systems, pumps, and control valves * Cooling towers and associated condenser-water systems * Commercial electrical systems, controls, VFDs, sensors, safeties, and BAS/DDC fundamentals
Technical Standard Candidates must demonstrate the ability to distinguish equipment-level failures from broader building-system conditions. Diagnosis should integrate refrigeration, electrical, airflow, controls, water flow, heat transfer, and manufacturer operating data rather than rely on assumption or unnecessary component replacement.
* Refrigeration: pressures, saturation temperatures, superheat, subcooling, temperature split, metering, compressor performance, and heat-transfer conditions. * Electrical/Controls: high- and low-voltage circuits, transformers, relays, contactors, motors, safeties, sensors, transducers, VFDs, control boards, communication circuits, and wiring diagrams. * Hydronic/Water-Side: entering/leaving water temperatures, water flow, strainers, valves, pumps, condenser-water loops, chilled-water systems, and cooling-tower interaction. * Airflow: static pressure, blower performance, VAV operation, duct restrictions, ventilation, outside air, and air-balancing fundamentals.
Required Qualifications
* 10+ years of hands-on HVAC field experience with meaningful commercial service exposure. * Demonstrated independent troubleshooting and diagnostic capability. * EPA Section 608 certification and valid driver's license. * Ability to read electrical schematics, technical literature, and sequence-of-operation documentation. * Comfort with digital field-service platforms, mobile documentation, photographs, work orders, and electronic communication. * Ability to work safely in rooftops, mechanical rooms, high-rise/commercial environments, and other field conditions. * Bilingual communication skills strongly preferred; English/Spanish proficiency is highly desirable for South Florida commercial operations and customer coordination. * Must possess and maintain the minimum professional hand tools and HVAC diagnostic instruments required to independently perform commercial service and troubleshooting; company-provided specialty equipment may be supplied as applicable.
Preferred Qualifications
* Manufacturer training is valued, but transferable commercial-system competency is more important than any single brand. * VRF/VRV, WSHP, RTU, VAV, chilled-water, hydronic, cooling-tower, BAS/DDC, and VFD experience. * High-rise, multifamily, hospitality, healthcare, institutional, or commercial retrofit experience. * Track record of mentoring technicians or leading commercial installations and commissioning.
Success Profile The right technician diagnoses before replacing, measures before assuming, understands sequence of operation, knows when a problem belongs to the equipment versus the building system, uses technical resources intelligently, takes ownership through completion and can teach another technician the reasoning behind the repair.
Compensation &; Benefits Base Salary: $65,000–$85,000, based on demonstrated experience and technical capability. Benefits include health, dental and vision coverage; PTO and sick time; company vehicle where applicable; company technology and field resources; performance-based opportunities; and advancement within a growing commercial operation.