How to write a HVAC and Refrigeration Technician CV in Tanzania

Opening profile

State your level, setting, and useful contribution

• Name the air conditioning, ventilation, cold-room, freezer, ice, controls, tools, and property settings you have actually worked with.
• Describe how you checked symptoms, readings, airflow, power, drains, filters, controls, components, testing, records, handovers, and next actions.
• Show the preventive work you performed and distinguish cleaning or component tasks from refrigerant, pressure, electrical, or specialist work you escalated.
• List HVAC or refrigeration training, certificates, licences, authorization, languages, and shift availability only when accurate and matched to the vacancy.

Experience section

Turn duties into evidence of work completed

• Receive the work order, confirm the room or equipment symptom, inspect power, controls, airflow, filters, drains, temperature, and visible conditions before deciding the next check.
• Diagnose air conditioning or refrigeration problems using approved test methods, readings, service history, and equipment information rather than guessing from a single symptom.
• Isolate electrical or mechanical energy before work where required, protect guests and stored products, and return equipment to service only after appropriate testing.
• Complete cleaning, filter, coil, drain, connection, component, or control work within training and authorization, and escalate refrigerant circuit, pressure, electrical, or specialist tasks outside that scope.
• Record readings, parts, actions, temperature concerns, temporary arrangements, and follow up needs, then hand over equipment that remains isolated, unstable, or awaiting a contractor.
• A redacted HVAC or refrigeration work order, temperature log, service checklist, or maintenance record showing symptoms, readings, action, testing, and handover.
• A supervisor reference describing your diagnosis, preventive service, equipment care, documentation, and response when cooling or refrigeration affected guests or operations.
• A specific example of tracing poor cooling, an icing issue, a blocked drain, a cold-room temperature change, or a repeat fault and escalating appropriately.
• HVAC, refrigeration, electrical, safety, or equipment training and authorization evidence only when completed and relevant to the vacancy's stated duties.

Skills and training

Keep the skills that belong to this role

• HVAC diagnosis that combines temperature, airflow, power, controls, drainage, noise, equipment history, and visible condition to narrow the fault.
• Safe electrical and mechanical isolation, equipment access, tool use, and protection of guests, food, stored products, and occupied areas.
• Preventive servicing for filters, coils, drains, connections, controls, seals, temperature checks, and other tasks named by the property or vacancy.
• Accurate recording of readings, set points, symptoms, parts, actions, tests, and conditions that still need specialist attention from the next technician or supervisor.
• Judgement to stop and escalate when work involves refrigerant handling, pressure, unfamiliar controls, unsafe equipment, or authorization outside your actual training.
• A property induction may cover room access, plant rooms, cold storage, temperature records, food protection, work orders, isolation control, emergency contacts, and contractor handovers.
• Refrigerant, pressure, electrical, or specialist HVAC work may require specific training, supervision, licences, or employer authorization, so applicants should state only the scope they hold.
• Refreshers in airflow checks, temperature recording, filter and coil servicing, controls, safe tools, and incident reporting can support duties when the property provides or requests them.

Before you send it

Tailor the CV to one specific vacancy