Company Culture:
Dedicated to customer service, Joseph M. Day Company’s work environment encourages creativity and reliability. A highly responsive customer focus fosters an entrepreneurial spirit with a talented sales and field service staff that collaborates to provide the best solutions and consistent results for our customers. As a family owned business, the family’s core principles of honesty and integrity form the basis for superior boiler and combustion equipment sales, service and support.
Successful Joseph M. Day Company team members are reliable, responsible, hardworking and enthusiastic individuals with positive attitudes. We serve the local Great Lakes Bay region as well as the central and northern Michigan region boiler markets with extensive experience in boiler and combustion systems and application engineering provided through the company’s extensive resources.
The work is challenging and rewarding for all team members, we encourage each member to extend their skills beyond their immediate assignment and responsibility. Joseph M. Day Company offers employees the opportunity to grow personally and collectively to enhance the performance and growth of our boiler equipment sales and field service organization.
Job Description:
Service, diagnose, repair/replace malfunctioning components/equipment, adjust, and maintain boiler systems, burners and combustion systems, and ancillary equipment used in industrial/commercial boiler systems and fuel fired process heating applications.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Safety awareness. Safety and health in our business is paramount and part of every operation
- Startup, commissioning, troubleshoot, repair, and shutdown of boiler system and combustion related equipment
- Perform routine maintenance related to boiler and combustion systems
- Perform Annual ASME CSD-1 testing
- Ensure safe operation of equipment within limits established by the equipment manufacturer via monitoring meters, gauges, and computerized controls
- Check safety devices and operating controls, record data, and identify potential problems
- Service, troubleshoot, repair, and monitor systems with the use of specialized equipment and electronic test instruments
- Perform owner training relating to new equipment and systems
- Participate in continuing education throughout career; attend classes or seminars to learn about new equipment, procedures and technology; independent study related to the industry
Typical Equipment Serviced:
- Boilers
- Boiler Sequencing Controls
- Burners
- Water Level Controls and Indicators
- Pumps
- Variable Frequency Drives
- Motors
- Blow Down Separators
- Control Valves
- Parallel Positioning Combustion Control
- Surge Systems
- Fuel Oil Equipment
- Deaerators
- Air Compressors
- Heat Exchangers
- Industrial Control Panels
- Economizers
- Ovens and Process Combustion Systems
Education/Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Formal apprenticeship or training programs, post-secondary or vocational training
- Minimum 3-5 years field experience
Areas of study and understanding should include:
- Combustion systems
- Industrial / electrical controls
- General mechanical pipe fitting
Skill Requirements:
- Hands-On mechanical aptitude
- Significant combustion aptitude and experience
- Electrical and Industrial control aptitude
- Proficient use of hand and power tools
- Manual dexterity
- Intermediate computer skills
- Able to clearly communicate verbally and in writing with office personnel and
co-workers, customers, vendors, partners and contractors
- Ability to perform work at elevations above 6 feet
- Capable of driving company service vehicle
