Instrumentation Technician

Major Job Duties

• Plans, develops, and directs the work activities of staff.
• Support project maintenance and construction.
• Prepares and reviews field and special reports, including instrument calibration and maintenance reports.
• Prepares work orders to request systems maintenance and verifies work completion.
• Dispatches field operator crews to remote systems in response to operational difficulties.
• Makes appropriate informational contacts.
• Ensures operational needs are met with the systems and instrumentation availability.
• Supports the project supervisors or managers during bidding projects by providing quotations on instrumentation and control systems.
• Supports the designs of projects.
• Verifies the configuration of process control strategies.
• Reviews and recommends process control strategies.
• Responds to emergency conditions/support customers.
• Adjusts system control parameters to accommodate major maintenance and construction.

Qualifications

• Requires a high school diploma or its equivalent.
• May be required to complete an apprenticeship and/or formal training in an area of specialty.
• Requires a minimum of 10 years of experience in the field or a related area.
• Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Successful completion of coursework in basic principles of electricity, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
• Certification with ISA (levels I, II, or III).
• Experience with PLCs, SCADA systems, DCS, Radio Networks, and UPS.
• Completion of an appropriate sequence of courses in distributed process control from a recognized training provider or completion of a plant operations apprenticeship is a plus.

Knowledge

• Of the operation, layout, and uses of computerized process control consoles and peripheral equipment.
• Various types of instruments, including field and bench calibration of devices.
• Distributed process control systems.
• Fresh water or wastewater transmission, collection, pumping and treatment processes, characteristics, and major equipment.
• Characteristics and operation of electrically controlled pumps.
• Graphical process control display information Human Machine Interface.

Skill

• In Effective oral and written communication.
• The use of a variety of computer input devices, process control, and peripheral equipment.
• The use of telecommunications devices.

Ability

• To organize, supervise and direct training of personnel.
• To operate a personal computer.
• To interact effectively with all staff levels, and internal and external customers.
• To acquire additional skills and knowledge through study and training.
• To speak clearly to give instructions and information over a variety of telecommunication devices.

LICENSE AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• A valid State of Michigan driver's license.