HVAC Technician Jobs in Northern Virginia, VA
CRAC and CRAH units, chillers, air handling and containment. The largest data center market in the world, with colocation vacancy around 0.3 percent.
Demand tracks directly with megawatts brought online.
Base range for this role is $65,000 - $115,000, before per diem. Work in this corridor clusters around Ashburn, Sterling, Leesburg, Dulles.
What gets you hired
EPA 608 universal, plus manufacturer training on CRAC and CRAH units and the chiller line in use on the project.
When this trade is needed
Mechanical fit-out through load bank testing, then straight into the service contract once the hall is handed over.
Why Northern Virginia specifically
Loudoun County is the densest concentration of data centre capacity anywhere, and the constraint here stopped being land years ago. It is now substation capacity and the queue to get connected, which is why schedules slip at the power stage rather than the build stage.
Controls and BAS specialists carry the longest backlog in the country here, around eight months. If you hold a platform certification, this is the market where it is worth the most.