The Instrumentation and Controls Technician is an hourly, non-exempt individual contributor responsible for installing, wiring, calibrating, and verifying instrumentation on prefabricated process cooling skids used in data center and critical infrastructure applications.
Compensation
Pay Range: $30 - $39 per hour
Responsibilities
Install and mount differential pressure, pressure, and temperature transmitters, RTDs, thermowells, temperature elements, flow meters, control valves, actuators, and positioners on prefabricated cooling skids per approved drawings and manufacturer instructions.
Route, secure, label, and terminate instrumentation wiring in conduit, cable tray, and flexible raceway; apply proper shielding, grounding, cable identification, and termination practices.
Assemble and wire junction boxes, terminal blocks, DIN rail, wire duct, cable glands, and seals to meet specified enclosure and workmanship requirements.
Calibrate and verify field instruments using HART communicators, process calibrators, dry blocks, pressure calibrators, multimeters, and other approved tools; document as-found and as-left results using traceable calibration standards.
Perform point-to-point continuity checks, applicable insulation-resistance tests, and 4–20 mA loop verification from instruments through junction boxes or control panels, using equipment-appropriate methods.
Provide technical expertise for proper operation and repair for all instruments, control systems and mechanical and electrical equipment in the power generation and associated industries.
Responsibilities
Assisting with various mechanical maintenance duties including predictive maintenance, replacement of filters, gaskets, valve packing, pump alignment, compressors, bearing repacking, and rigging
Wiring and disconnection of motors, replacement of thermocouples and fuses, pulling wire, and performing electrical checks
Operating and monitoring combustion turbines, 13.8 kV generators and electric generation balance of plant equipment, including start up and shut down of plant equipment
Understanding NERC regulations and guidelines when operating combustion turbines
Reading mechanical flow diagrams, electrical on-line and wiring diagrams
Requirements
Associate degree (A. A.) in electronics or equivalent from two-year college or technical school
Receive and follow instructions and directions to install, troubleshoot, repair, maintain, adjust, and perform preventive maintenance on electrical equipment, instrumentation, and analytical equipment.
Responsibilities
Install, troubleshoot, repair and perform preventive maintenance on electrical equipment, instrumentation and analytical equipment, following electrical code, manuals, procedures, schematic diagrams, P&IDs, blueprints, and other specifications.
Inspect instrumentation periodically and perform calibrations to ensure accuracy.
Locate defective components using test equipment such as pressure gauges, manometers, potentiometers, signal generators, pulse counters, oscilloscopes, HART communicators, ammeters, voltmeters.
Install power supply and signal wiring and cables, cable tray, and conduit for newly installed machines, electrical equipment, instrumentation, distributive control systems, signal interface cabinets, and telephone systems.
Use hand tools, power tools, and electrical/electronic test equipment.
Requirements
High School Diploma
Accredited formal training program in Process Instrumentation and Control and Electronics