Meet our Industry Person of the Week, Kyle Hatch, Installer / Field Supervisor for R&W Heating Energy Solutions.
Q: How did you get started working in your field?
Kyle: I spent lots of time during my childhood, school vacations and time off riding along with my father learning how to vaccum boilers and furnaces and carry his tools out. I started working in the HVAC trade officially in 2007. 3 years after my father and mother started a new business. R&W Heating. Today we have 16 team members!
Q: What do you love the most about your job? What are you most proud of?
Kyle: I love the people I work with and watching them grow as people and technicians. I’m most proud of having an impact on the next generation of the HVAC industry. Some days it’s teaching how to do something properly. Somedays it’s learning together how not to do or how to do something the hard way… I’m also proud to have had Ben Poole and his team give me the opportunity to Co- present the “Service Tech of the year “ award at the 2025 HVAC Tactical Award show in Orlando along side Matt Pryce and to be selected for the cover of the spring 2025 HVAC Tactical Magazine.
Q: What advice would you give to someone considering this line of work or new to the field?
Kyle: The more time and effort you put into yourself and your career outside of work the faster you will grow and excel. “He who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does” All the effort you put in that you “don’t get paid for” will travel with you through out your career. You are the one who ultimately benefits from the years of all that extra effort.
Q: Can you talk about a project you recently worked on?
Kyle: Recently I was able to be apart of the install of a 7 head 3 outdoor unit Fujitsu Ductless Heat Pump job at a local school with a team of our installers. This project has been over a year in the making and now provides the school with air conditioning where it had none and heating to replace and or supplement old oil furnaces.
Q: Anything else you would like to add?
Kyle: If you are going to take advice from somebody in life make sure that person has what you want for your own life, is who you want to become or has done what you want to do. Don’t follow somebody just because they are older than you or just because they say things with conviction and authority.
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THANK YOU, KYLE! WE LOOK FORWARD TO KEEPING UP WITH YOU THROUGH THE #PUMPTALK COMMUNITY!
