Job Profile: HVAC Engineer - Hospital Project The HVAC Engineer for a hospital project is responsible for the coordination, installation, testing, commissioning, and validation of HVAC systems in compliance with healthcare standards, infection control requirements, and statutory codes. The role is critical to ensuring patient safety, indoor air quality, pressure control, and energy efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Coordination

- Review HVAC drawings, layouts, and calculations for hospital areas such as:

- Operation Theatres (OT)

- ICUs, NICUs

- Isolation rooms

- Wards, labs, pharmacies

- Ensure compliance with Applicable Standards and local health authority guidelines.

- Coordinate with architectural, electrical, medical gas, BMS, and fire-fighting teams.

- Validate air change rates (ACH), temperature, humidity, and pressure requirements.

- Supervise installation of:

- AHUs, FAHUs, PACUs

- Ducting, dampers, VAV/CAV systems

- HEPA filters, terminal boxes, exhaust systems etc.

- Ensure proper zoning for critical and non-critical areas.

- Monitor quality of workmanship and material compliance.

- Ensure correct installation of pressure cascades (positive/negative pressure areas).

- Ensure the compliance of cleanroom standards in OTs and critical care areas.

- Monitoring of sealing, insulation,



and leakage control in ducting systems.

- Ensure compliance with ICRA (Infection Control Risk Assessment) during execution.

- Witness for the commissioning for :

- Air balancing (TAB)

- Room pressurization tests

- Temperature & humidity performance tests

- Coordinating DQ, IQ, and OQ documentation where required.

- Ensure HVAC systems are commissioned as per hospital protocols.

- Support NABH / JCI audits.

- Monitoring the document maintained by contractor i.e:

- Method statements

- Inspection test plans (ITP)

- As-built drawings

- Operation & Maintenance manuals

- Maintain daily progress reports and coordination logs.

- Manage approvals from consultants and clients.

Qualifications & Skills

- 10 + Yrs.

Bachelors

Degree / 13+ Yrs. Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.

- 10 years of experience in HVAC systems (minimum 23 years in hospital projects).

- Strong knowledge of healthcare HVAC standards.

- Valuable coordination, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Mandatory Computer skills:

- MS Office, AutoCAD

Key Competencies

- Healthcare HVAC compliance expertise

- Attention to detail & quality control

- Cross-functional coordination

- Risk mitigation & infection control awareness

📌 HVAC Project manager (Surat)
🏢 SGS India
📍 Surat