Instrumentation Technician - Austin Industrial Decatur, IL BIO

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities

• Install, test, calibrate, troubleshoot, overhaul, and repair electrical, controlling, indicating, and measuring instrument devices to ensure specified operating performance using hand tools, testing and calibrating instruments, and precision measuring instruments.
• Read and understand manuals, wiring or instrumentation schematics, and testing specifications.
• Troubleshoot electric motors, install wiring to circuits, and work with electrical schematics and PLCs.
• Layout, fabricate, and install tubing and tube trays.
• Apply knowledge of mathematics to instrumentation (e.g., ratio and proportions, powers of 10, algebra equations, English-to-metric conversion, inches of water to PSI, inches of mercury to PSI).
• Read blueprints, schematics, and loop drawings, and prepare job reports.
• Assemble and disassemble all types of electronic process controls, pneumatic controls, and hydraulic systems and components.
• Calibrate equipment using common calibration procedures and interpret related documentation.
• Understand the principles of pH and redox, including equipment needed to measure and control them.
• Work with Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Law, diodes, capacitors, and other electrical components.
• Understand steam properties and reactions (e.g., saturation properties).
• Apply principles of chemistry and physics in instrumentation (e.g., specific gravity, density, mechanical advantages, melting/freezing/boiling points).
• Troubleshoot and check out electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems using proper test equipment.
• Understand fundamental instrumentation loops and the function of each component in the loop.
• Understand common chemical plant process equipment (e.g., distillation columns, heat exchangers, boilers, turbines, compressors).
• Apply procedures for measuring pressure, level, flow, temperature, weight, density, heat flux, humidity, and moisture.
• Maintain a current electrician's license or identification card to meet state regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of Journeyman-level experience.
• No minimum education requirements.

Schedule

This is a full-time maintenance position working 40 hours per week with some overtime. There is no per diem, relocation funding, or hotel allotment for this position.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance.
• Matching 401K plan.
• 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP).