Jesse Brown VA Blood Lab
Blind crane picks for roof-mounted air handlers, steam and hot water piping while the lab stayed operational, and eight-story exterior duct risers in downtown Chicago.
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Careers
Build serious mechanical work with Roberts.
Union service techs, sheet metal workers, pipefitters, project managers, service sales representatives, and construction project executives all have a place in the next chapter.
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Mechanical work worth doing, at a company that has been doing it since 1949.
Roberts started as a refrigeration and heating service company in 1949 and was incorporated as Roberts Environmental Control Corp. in 1973. Fifty years on we self-perform commercial and industrial mechanical construction, fabrication, service, and controls — union, in four states.
We are straightforward about what we want: people who know the work, respect the craft, and will hold a standard when nobody is watching.
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Self-perform, not brokered
Sheet metal, piping, controls, and service are done by Roberts people, out of a Roberts shop.
The Work
What you would actually be on.
Not a stock photo of a jobsite. These are Roberts projects, and the kind of scope our crews are handed.
Jackson Park Hospital Boilers
A 350-HP mobile steam boiler kept the hospital in service while a new plant went in — boilers craned through the roof.
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High-pressure steam plant replacement in Wisconsin, with temporary boilers and SCADA controls holding the campus through the changeover.
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Where people fit at Roberts.
These stay open whether or not a specific job is posted. If you are good and the timing is close, talk to us anyway.
Union Service Techs
Commercial HVAC, boilers, chillers, controls, and diagnostics — hospitals, schools, plants, and occupied buildings, including emergency calls.
Troubleshooting is the job. You are often the only Roberts person on site and the one the customer talks to.
Union Sheet Metal Workers
Duct systems from the shop to the field, tied to our own 30,000 SF fabrication floor rather than whatever shows up on a truck.
Shop and field both. Layout, fabrication, rigging, and install on commercial and industrial systems.
Union Pipefitters
Steam, hydronic, process, chilled water, and equipment piping — including high-pressure steam plants and work in live facilities.
Welding and rigging on systems that cannot simply be shut off while you work.
Project Managers
Scope, schedule, coordination, submittals, and the customer relationship on mechanical construction and retrofit projects.
You own the plan and the communication. Field experience is respected here, not a footnote.
Service Sales Representatives
Maintenance agreements, repairs, retrofits, and facility assessments for owners planning years ahead, not just the next call.
Technical enough to size up a mechanical room, commercial enough to build the relationship.
Construction Project Executives
Leadership across complex mechanical construction — delivery, risk, and the customer outcome.
For people who have run the work and want a larger portfolio of it.
Where
Union, in four states.
Roberts works out of Tinley Park and travels for the right project. Our craft comes through these halls.
Chicago, IL
Sheet Metal Local 265 · Pipe Fitters Local 597
Wisconsin
Steamfitters Local 601
Albuquerque, NM
UA Local 412
Amarillo, TX
UA Local 404
How We Work
Less paperwork. Better information.
Roberts invests in the systems behind the work so the day is spent on the mechanical problem, not on chasing drawings or filling out forms twice.
Dispatch and work tickets on your phone
Scheduling, job details, and documentation are digital. No carbon copies, no calling the office to find out where you are going.
Drawings where you need them
The Roberts Plan Room puts current drawings and submittals in reach instead of on someone's desk.
Equipment history at the unit
What was done last time, what failed, what was ordered — so you are not diagnosing the same thing twice.
Coordination done before the field
In-house BIM and 30,000 SF of fabrication mean fewer surprises when it reaches the jobsite.
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Start the conversation.
Tell us the trade, where you are, and what you have run. If you are between jobs, in your last year of an apprenticeship, or just seeing what is out there, that is a fine place to start.