Commercial Kitchen Equipment Service Technician - Construction
OTG ManagementAbout the role
Job Title: Refrigeration Technician
Location: IAH Airport
Compensation: $35 - $47 per hour
Reports to: Senior Management
Who We Are
On the Go (OTG) has elevated the dining and retail experience for travelers by bringing together world-class hospitality, award-winning dining concepts, and forward-thinking technology. With more than three hundred unique dining and retail locations across North America’s busiest airports, we are fueled by a passion for creating exceptional guest experiences—made possible every day by our incredible Crewmembers. At OTG, people truly come first. We invest in our teams and foster growth in an exciting, challenging environment where everyone can shine.
How We Do Business
How we work is just as meaningful as what we accomplish. Our values—Care, Continuous Improvement, Quality, and Teamwork—guide the way we show up for our guests and for each other. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, safe, and dynamic workplace where individuals feel empowered to contribute and grow.
Why This Job is a Big Deal
An OTG Commercial Kitchen Service Technician troubleshoots and fixes restaurant equipment. In this career, you repair a kitchen appliance and perform regular maintenance. Responsibilities include communicating with other food industry professionals and ensuring cooking appliances operate properly. A Commercial Kitchen Service Technician will also keep a lot of repairs and needed services, install new kitchen equipment, maintain a neat and orderly workstation, and provide excellent customer service to restaurant professionals.
In this role, you will….
Install new commercial kitchen equipment to include dishwashers, conveyers, ovens, stoves, kettles, fryers, steamers, and ice machines.
Diagnose commercial cooking equipment performance through observation, testing, and setup.
Disassemble and reassemble equipment to perform troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and repair
Operate hand tools, power tools, gauges, and measuring equipment to perform service on the unit.
Lift, carry, pull, and push components and/or equipment to test, set up, or maintain equipment.
Give and take written and verbal instructions.
Complete documents to verify work performed.
Work flexible hours as required.
Qualifications
High school or equivalent
Burn and fire watch certificates a Plus
Knowledge and experience with plumbing, electrical and copper work as it pertains to the new installation
Diagnostic ability as demonstrated through a minimum of 2 years’ experience and/or training in commercial cooking equipment such as fryers, grills
Ability to competently use a variety of meters, measuring instruments, torches, and hand tools.
Ability to effectively communicate with the customer.
Ability to work independently, under pressure, and without close supervision; willing and able to consistently work the schedule required by job demands.
Ability to exert up to 100 pounds of force (pulling, pushing, lifting, carrying, etc.) regularly and up to 50 pounds of force frequently.
Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, twist, grasp to perform essential job functions.
Ability to tolerate environmental conditions consisting of extreme heat, cold, noise, vibration, fumes, dust, and poor ventilation.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.
YOUR NEXT OPPORTUNITY IS NOW BOARDING:
Join OTG as the Commercial Kitchen Equipment Service Technician now and drive a new type of hospitality. Explore career opportunities in a unique hospitality environment with some of the industry's best compensation and benefits, including PTO, Healthcare, and a competitive 401k match.
WHAT IS OTG?
OTG has revolutionized the hospitality industry by pushing the boundaries of excellence. With more than 300 in-terminal dining and retail locations across 10 airports, OTG and its 5,000+ Crewmembers serve millions of travelers each year.
WHY OTG?
By joining our team, you’ll discover endless opportunities to explore, learn and realize your greatest potential in some of the most exciting hospitality environments around. Our people drive our experiences, so we offer our crewmembers some of the best compensation and benefits in the industry.
We transform airport experiences. You drive it.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Position Summary:
An OTG Commercial Kitchen Service Technician troubleshoots and fixes restaurant equipment. In this career, you repair a kitchen appliance and perform regular maintenance. Responsibilities include
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