Become an HVAC Technician in Just Six Months
Get ready to launch your future
Discover how our program can help you qualify for a job in the HVAC field.
Enroll in our three-month HVAC tech course. This is the fast track to learning the foundational principles and practices of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration.
More than technical training.
Employers hire for skills and promote for work ethic. You’ll learn both.
Hands-on skills: real tools and real systems in our lab.
Work ethic training: we’re the only trade school in North Carolina authorized to teach the mikeroweWORKS Foundation’s S.W.E.A.T. Pledge curriculum.
Job-placement support: interview prep and connections to local employers who are hiring.
Fundamentals in HVAC course includes:
Principles of HVAC
Learn heat, temperature, and refrigeration principles. Understand hand and power tool use and basic safety. - Get introduced to basic electricity, components, and wiring.
- Cover valves, tubing, brazing, and piping, air distribution, air quality, and troubleshooting.
Hands-on Learning in the Lab
- PPE, lockout/tagout, gauges, refrigeration cycle boards, temperature/pressure relationship exercises.
- Multimeter safety, voltage, continuity, and resistance measurement, series/parallel circuit boards, electrical safety drills.
- Soft soldering, brazing with nitrogen purge, flaring and swaging, leak-free joint practice, sequence of operation testing, heat pump cycle comparison lab, fault tracing.
Advanced HVAC Principles
- Learn advanced refrigeration cycle, electrical diagnostics, motors, compressors, controls, heat pumps, and gas furnaces.
- Dive into residential heating and A/C systems, including air distribution basics and indoor air quality and filtration.
- Understand electrical theory, Ohm’s Law, basic circuits, relays, contractors, transformers, and wiring diagrams.
Advanced Hands-on Learning in the Lab
- Learn about recovery machine operation, charging, control board troubleshooting, high voltage fault simulations, transformer testing, combustion analysis, and more.
- Practice full-system airflow balancing, ESP troubleshooting, communication fault diagnostics, duct leakage testing, and evaporator/condenser operation.
- Residential system buildout, wiring full-control circuits, multi-fault systems, service call simulations, and more.
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Our HVAC program helps you get employed
Each course in our HVAC program includes job-placement components. You’ll learn to craft a winning resume, prep for interviews, interact with customers and supervisors, and land the offer. No need to sign up for—or pay for—additional courses. Everything is built into the program.
Our HVAC courses help you get ahead
You don’t need to become a licensed HVAC tech to have a successful HVAC career. But becoming licensed creates more opportunities. You can earn more, supervise others, or start your own HVAC business, depending on which license you get.
North Carolina offers multiple licensing options. Most licenses take years to earn, but training at the School of Skilled Trades gives you a head start on the process.
For the latest information on licensing options and qualifications, please visit the State Board of Examiners website.
Our Program Helps You Get There Faster
Complete our three-month training to earn 250 hours toward the HVAC Tech License—one of several licenses available in North Carolina.
Accelerate Your Path to Licensing with Training from the
School of Skilled Trades
- Our HVAC Technician certificate program gives you 250 hours of essential classroom and hands-on training. Every hour you earn at the School of Skilled Trades counts toward the hours North Carolina requires before you can sit for the state licensing exam.
- With a strong emphasis on in-lab learning, you have the opportunity to master basic and advanced skills in HVAC.
- North Carolina offers multiple licensing opportunities. For the latest information on exam requirements, please visit the State Board of Examiners website.
We’re here to help you get empowered, get equipped, and get employed. All you have to do is take the first step. Fill out the form, and we’ll schedule a quick call to help you get started.
The School of Skilled Trades is a non-profit school, meaning we invest in helping you learn, not in making a profit. We’re licensed by the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges, so you learn valuable skills from qualified instructors with years of field experience.