u/andrewb_16

Hello everyone! Hope all is well! Been in the trade for a little over 3 years now, and I’m on the service team for one of the big companies.

Today I had the pleasure of going out to one of my sites and working side by side with one of our best chiller mechanics. The guy is very meticulous with his work, and makes it look like art when he has to take a chiller apart for repairs.

He suggested that energy efficiency would be a great thing to put under my belt, and I’m curious how many people have certifications in that realm. Would you suggest taking a course or getting certified? What certifications from which organizations would you recommend? I didn’t go the college route so I have licenses, but I know some organizations want college degrees.

Hey everyone, I hope all is well. I’ve been on the JCI service controls team for a little over 3 years now, and started my controls career here. My ultimate goal is to get into sales, and one of the sales AE’s mentioned it took him 15 years to get to sales, and suggested to learn how to engineer. I guess he started as a systems tech, and then went to systems engineering and became one of those actual high level engineers you want on a job.

To the people currently a systems engineer at JCI or other companies, how do you like your job? How’s the work life balance? Is the pay “worth it”… all the service guys on my team say systems doesn’t make as much money. I admire the amount of knowledge the systems engineers have in programming systems, setting up jobs, designing as-builds, and it intrigues me. Me being in service I don’t find it often that I’m doing custom programming.