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Install mini-splits in homes across NYC. Full-time, salaried, $60,000–$80,000 to start.

Sunny is a licensed Brooklyn contractor installing ductless mini-splits in homes across the city — single-family houses up to a maximum four-family building. We're hiring full-time technicians, on salary, to install them.

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Name, phone, and a few words about your experience. That's the whole start.

A Sunny crew of three technicians installing a ductless mini-split on a Brooklyn brownstone at golden hour, working together and smiling.

Why techs stay

Why a good tech wants to work here.

At Sunny you install the whole system, start to finish, and you take the time to do it right. It's steady install work for techs who care about the job they leave behind. If that's you, you'll fit here.

01 — The work

You'll be installing systems, not just swapping filters. Indoor heads, outdoor condensers, line sets routed through real NYC buildings.

02 — The shop

Licensed and insured. NYS Clean Heat Participating Contractor. Con Edison rebate partner. Every install comes with a 10-year parts warranty and a 1-year workmanship guarantee, so the work gets done right the first time.

03 — The pay

Full-time and salaried, $60,000–$80,000 to start. Not feast-or-famine. We're a licensed shop growing with the Clean Heat wave, so there's steady work and room to move up.

4.9★
27 Google reviews
10yr
parts warranty standard
3
boroughs & growing
2024
est. · Brooklyn

The role · HVAC technician

Install and service ductless mini-splits across the city.

This is hands-on field work in NYC homes — most days you're on a residential install, start to finish, with a crew that knows the buildings. Here's what the job actually looks like.

  • Install ductless mini-split systems in NYC homes — indoor heads, outdoor condensers, and line sets routed through single-family houses up to a maximum four-family building.
  • Braze copper joints clean and leak-free.
  • Pull vacuum, weigh in charge, and commission systems to manufacturer spec.
  • Mount, wire, and start up equipment — and verify it's running the way it should before you leave.
  • Service and diagnose existing systems when a call needs it.
  • Leave the home cleaner than you found it. You're representing Sunny in someone's living room.

You'll work alongside techs who care about the same things you do. Questions get answers, and good work gets noticed.

A Sunny technician on site finishing a ductless mini-split head install in a Bed-Stuy apartment.

What we're looking for

If this sounds like you, you're who we're hiring.

We care about what you can do on a job site, not how your résumé reads. Here's the honest bar.

  • 6+ months of hands-on HVAC field experience. Real time on real jobs.
  • You can install a ductless mini-split. Comfortable taking a system from boxes to running.
  • Solid copper brazing. Clean joints you'd stand behind.
  • EPA 608 certification. Required to handle refrigerant — bring it, or get certified before you start.
  • OSHA 40 safety certification. Required on our job sites. Don't have it yet? We'll help you get there.
  • English, Chinese, or bilingual. Any one works. Bilingual? Even better — our crews and our customers are too.
Hit most of these and unsure about the rest? Apply anyway and tell us where you're at. We'd rather hear from a good tech than miss one.

Pay & the deal

$60,000–$80,000 to start. Full-time, salaried.

We don't hide the number until the interview. You start somewhere in this range based on your experience and what you can do on day one — full-time and salaried, not gig work.

$60–80k
starting salary
Full-time
salaried
NYC
residential installs
Licensed
& insured

Full-time, salaried work with a licensed shop that's growing. You get a steady paycheck, not hours that swing month to month.

Starting pay is $60,000–$80,000 per year, set within that range based on experience and skills. Final compensation is discussed and confirmed during hiring.

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The deal, plainly

Starting pay
$60,000–$80,000 per year
Type
Full-time · salaried
The work
Residential mini-split installs across NYC
The shop
Licensed & insured · growing with NYS Clean Heat

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Tell us about your experience. It takes a couple minutes.

No cover letter, no runaround. Give us the basics and a few words about the work you've done, and a real person at Sunny will read it.

This is a longer application than most, and that's on purpose. We'd rather read how you think than quiz you across a table. Take the scenarios at your own pace — there's no clock and no trick. If you know this work, this is your chance to show it in your own words.

First, the basics

Let's start with who you are.

The quick version — who you are and how to reach you. The next part is where you get to show us the work.

As you'd like us to call you.

The fastest way to reach you. We'll text or call.

Short is fine. We just want to picture the work you've done.

Which languages do you speak?

Pick any that apply. Speak more than one? Even better.

Show us how you work

Ten situations from real jobs. Tell us how you'd handle them.

These are real problems off real ductless installs and service calls — the kind of thing that comes up in a brownstone on a Tuesday. There's no trick and no single right answer. We want to read how you think a problem through. Write as much or as little as each one needs; a few honest sentences beats a textbook. If you've hit one of these in the field, tell us what you actually did.

0 of 10 answered 10 to go
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Scenario 1 of 10
Scenario 01 / 10

You're installing a single-zone wall unit and the only practical route puts the outdoor condenser about 45 feet of line-set away from the indoor head, with a couple of stories of lift. The system shipped with a factory charge rated for a shorter run.

Scenario 2 of 10
Scenario 02 / 10

A helper on the crew brazes up a set of copper joints fast, no nitrogen flowing through the line while he does it. The connections look clean from the outside. Six weeks later that system is having problems.

Scenario 3 of 10
Scenario 03 / 10

You've finished brazing and you're pulling a vacuum on a new install. The pump's been running a while, but when you valve off the system and watch the micron gauge, the reading climbs back up and settles instead of holding low.

Scenario 4 of 10
Scenario 04 / 10

A system you commissioned two weeks ago is now low on charge. The customer says it was cooling fine and now it's weak. You suspect a leak somewhere in the install.

Scenario 5 of 10
Scenario 05 / 10

You're making up the flare connections at the indoor head. One feels like it's snugging up but you're not sure it's right, and you don't want a callback for a slow leak at that joint.

Scenario 6 of 10
Scenario 06 / 10

A new install powers up but the indoor head and outdoor unit won't talk — you're getting a communication fault and the system won't run. Power is present at both units.

Scenario 7 of 10
Scenario 07 / 10

You're mounting an indoor head in a third-floor room of an older Brooklyn brownstone. There's no easy gravity path to drain the condensate to the outside, and the customer doesn't want a visible line running down the front of the building.

Scenario 8 of 10
Scenario 08 / 10

The install's done, the system's running, and it's blowing cold. The customer's happy and ready to sign off. But you haven't confirmed the system is actually charged and commissioned to the manufacturer's spec.

Scenario 9 of 10
Scenario 09 / 10

You get a service call on a two-year-old inverter mini-split that keeps shutting down. It runs for a while, then throws a fault code and stops. The customer's already had someone "look at it" who replaced a part and it didn't fix anything.

Scenario 10 of 10
Scenario 10 / 10

A customer complains their fairly new mini-split cools unevenly and the unit keeps cycling on and off in short bursts in one room — never seems to settle. The install looks clean and the system holds charge.

Last thing

Optional. Skip it if you've said your piece — this won't count against you.

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