With a demand increasing daily for workers and an aging workforce, it’s no doubt that students with skills that prepare them for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) industry are in hot demand.
Just how hot that demand is will be on display at Capital Region BOCES on Thursday, April 11, as area employers seek to recruit Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical School (CTE) adult and high school HVAC/R students.
The career fair will start at 3 p.m. and feature more than a dozen employers.
Some of the firms are looking to hire technicians for full-time positions, others for summer spots. Still others will be on hand to provide a learning experience for the students.
In previous years, nearly two dozen high school and adult students have been hired through the job fairs.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects employment of HVAC/R technicians will grow 6% by 2032.
The job outlook is particularly strong for students “familiar with computers and electronics and those with good troubleshooting skills…as employers continue to have difficulty finding qualified technicians to work on complex new systems,” federal labor officials have reported.
The HVAC/R program at the Albany campus of the Capital Region BOCES CTE gives students a solid career foundation in the HVAC/R industry. In a state-of-the art classroom, students learn about ventilation, piping, refrigerants and refrigeration, furnaces and boilers. Upon completion of the program, students have the technical and employability skills employers seek.
Scheduled to recruit BOCES students at the event are
- Apollo Heating
- Walters Co. Air Conditioning
- Mohawk Heating Co. Inc.
- The Walters Company Air Conditioning
- Pride Commercial Appliance Service
- Thermal Environment Sales Inc.
- LaPan’s Precision Air Conditioning,
- Heating and Refrigeration
- ABC Refrigeration & HVAC Inc.
- Long Energy
- Adams Heating & Cooling Co. Inc
- VP Supply Corporation
- Walters Co. Air Conditioning
- RJ Murray Co. Inc.
- Colonie Mechanical Contractors, Inc.
- UA Local 7, Plumbers and Steamfitters
- Northeast Heating, Cooling & Refrigeration