Instrument Technician

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains, repairs, tests and inspects a wide variety of equipment common to regulators, odorizers and telemetric systems.
• Makes calculations of electrical and pneumatic systems to assure their proper functioning.
• Installs telemetric and recording gauges at various locations within the system, changing charts and changing batteries in clocks on a schedule.
• Prepares various daily, periodic or occasional reports on work performed, condition of equipment or status. Factual and accurate reporting is required.
• Inspects, sets, refills, installs and otherwise adjusts and maintains odorizers. May be required to compute flow rates and evaluate consumption of odorant.
• Performs shutdowns of various stations and equipment, coordinating the efforts of construction and Maintenance and System Control.
• Responsible for maintaining proper truck stock, work material, tools and supplies.
• All other duties as assigned

Essential Characteristics

• Supervisory Responsibilities: None specified

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

• High school diploma or the equivalent.
• Must have a technical academic background, which includes satisfactory completion of courses named Physics and Algebra.
• Applicable trade school certificate.
• Valid Class E or chauffeur’s driver’s license

Required knowledge, skill and abilities

• Must pass the validated work test applicable to this position.
• Must maintain a valid driver’s license with appropriate classifications.
• Must be physically fit, sound, active and capable of performing heavy manual labor.
• Must be able to read mechanical or electrical blueprints and sketches.
• Must be able to use wide variety of hand and automatic tools required for installing and servicing associated equipment and routine test instruments.
• Must be able to pass medical clearance for respirator use.
• Wears PPE when required or appropriate

Physical demands, environment and schedule

• Work at various plants, locations and stations including central office, vaults, customer premises and under various schedules.
• Normal work schedule is five over seven and subject to call out under the terms of the Labor Agreement