heating technician
Code 7126.4
Heating technicians install and maintain gas, electric, oil, solid-fuel and multiple fuel heating and ventilation equipment as stand-alone heating and ventilation systems or build into machinery and transport equipment. They follow instructions and blueprints, perform maintenance on systems, perform safety checks and repair the systems.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- fuel gas
- combined heat and power generation
- electric heating systems
- domestic cooling systems
- thermodynamics
- types of heat pumps
- types of fuels
Skills and competences
- consult technical resources
- design heating and cooling emission systems
- design an electric heating system
- install heating furnace
- install radiators
- install heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration ducts
- integrate biogas energy in buildings
- read standard blueprints
- perform a feasibility study on heat pumps
- perform a feasibility study on electric heating
- operate welding equipment
- operate soldering equipment
- conduct routine machinery checks
- perform maintenance on installed equipment
- record test data
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- perform test run
- use testing equipment
Transversal competences
- use measurement instruments
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences