Are you ready for a career that offers heaps of variety, constant challenges and exciting opportunities?

As a Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technician, or fridgie, you’ll be working in an active job solving different problems every day, protecting the environment and using new and developing technologies that have a real impact on day-to-day life.

Keeping refrigeration and air conditioners working in food storage facilities, hospitals, hotels and office buildings is important work. As well as supporting and maintaining systems, fridgies manage the use and disposal of refrigerant gases in equipment, which has a positive impact on the ozone layer and the environment.

Career Profile

Be the future of climate control

CHOOSE YOUR SECTOR

Join a network of licensed refrigeration and air conditioning technicians and specialists working in different industries all around Australia.

Aviation: Service and repair air conditioning in aircraft ranging from small single engine planes through to helicopters or passenger jets. The sky’s the limit for fridgies in this sector.

Manufacturing: Spend your days assembling electrical boards, following electrical schematics and even doing a bit of sheet metal assembly work. You’ll also keep busy wiring refrigeration components like compressors and condenser fans.

Marine: As a fridgie in the marine and shipping industry, you’ll repair and service refrigeration systems and marine air conditioners, and troubleshoot mechanical and electrical issues.

Mining: Out on a mine site, you’ll do essential work installing, maintaining and repairing systems, often working independently on a fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) roster.

Stationary: Most buildings have some form of heating, cooling or refrigeration. Think houses, supermarkets, laboratories, hospitals, restaurants or even underground train stations. You’ll become a specialist in installing, testing, servicing and repairing systems.

Automotive: Install and repair air conditioning units in various types of vehicles and machinery. You could find yourself working on top-of-the-range cars in the city, out in regional Australia maintaining huge farm vehicles or installing systems into new trains as they roll off the production line.

Resources

"Food & Drink Business" - Train the cold chain

Australia’s food cold chain is embracing the latest refrigeration technologies for the benefit of the environment and to control operating costs, investing heavily in equipment and staff. 

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