WHAT DOES AN INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN DO?

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Updated: Nov 03, 2025 - The Instrumentation Technician installs, maintains, calibrates, and repairs complex mechanical, pneumatic, and electronic instruments used in power generation and RDF processing. This role requires expertise in high-voltage systems, electrical and control equipment, and adherence to electrical codes and safety standards. The technician also interprets technical drawings, maintains detailed records, and ensures reliable plant operations.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Instrumentation Technician

1. Instrumentation Technician Duties

Vascular Testing: Performing high-quality standardized and routine diagnostic vascular testing of the extremities, cerebrovascular, and abdominal vasculature using diagnostic Ultrasound and Plethysmography equipment.
Vascular Ultrasound: Performing complex and non-routine vascular ultrasound procedures.
Specialized Testing: Performing additional testing, including evaluation of Arteriovenous Fistulas, Palmar Arch Studies, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome evaluation, and Ice Water Immersion.
Anatomy Knowledge: Applying knowledge of anatomy and physiology, including the location and function of major body organs and structures as they relate to vascular sonography.
Disease Knowledge: Applying knowledge of disease entities that impact the vascular system and their influence on the test results.
Procedure Compliance: Following departmental examination procedures and adapting testing for the patient's condition or disease process.
Physician Assistance: Assisting physicians with thrombin injections.
Record Management: Maintaining accurate and complete patient records and reports for examinations.

2. Instrumentation Technician Details

Safety Awareness: Recognizes safety hazards and follows safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public.
Environmental Knowledge: Knowledgeable of environmental rules and regulations, and effectively apply them to all work situations.
System Maintenance: Installs, calibrates, tests, troubleshoots, and maintains protective relays, computers, metering, monitoring, and control systems on boilers, turbines, generators, and plant auxiliary equipment.
Component Troubleshooting: Performs benchwork and component troubleshooting.
Diagram Interpretation: Reads and interprets electric generating plants’ P&IDs and CWDs to locate, identify, troubleshoot, and repair plant systems, interlocks, etc.
Equipment Usage: Uses test equipment (oscilloscopes, multi-meters, electronic bridges, loop calibrators) and hand tools (i.e., drills, screwdrivers) to troubleshoot and maintain devices and systems for the power plant.
Apprentice Training: Works with apprentice I/C technicians to teach proper, safe use of tools and maintenance procedures.
Record Keeping: Completes all written and electronic records (i.e., notifications, work orders, calibration sheets, time cards, material requests) required to document the work in progress and as it is completed.
System Knowledge: Continually updates knowledge of plant systems and instrumentation.
Decision Making: Makes decisions about how best to repair equipment and what resources (tools, time, equipment) will be needed.
Work Flexibility: Employee must arrange their own transportation to the work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company’s discretion.

3. Instrumentation Technician Responsibilities

Safety Compliance: Ensure all work undertaken is safe, and in compliance and accordance with statutory Health and Safety procedures, maintenance manuals, specific work instructions, safe systems of work (Control of Work/Permit to Work), and all recommended safe working practices
Risk Assessment: Actively participate in thorough pre-job risk assessments for all non-routine activities and confirm that they are accurately reflected in the resultant Permit to Work
Site Inspection: Actively participate in any pre-job site inspections/toolbox talks for maintenance activities
Safety Tours: Participate in IRIS and carry out safety tours
PPE Usage: Ensure all required personal protective equipment (PPE) is appropriately used
Emergency Preparedness: Ensure all work party members, especially third-party personnel, fully understand the purpose of, and can use, the required emergency response equipment
Work Awareness: Ensure all personnel in proximity of works are fully aware of planned works, associated risks and control/mitigation measures in place
Workplace Cleanliness: Ensure compliance with established clean workplace practices
Incident Reporting: Ensure all accidents, incidents, near misses and non-conformances are fully reported
Equipment Servicing: Undertake routine inspection, servicing and adjustment of equipment
Performance Monitoring: Support performance and condition monitoring and assessment

4. Instrumentation Technician Job Summary

Work Order Review: Review maintenance work orders and ensure all requirements/preparations are fully undertaken before commencement of works
Spare Parts Coordination: Ensure any spares requirements are communicated to MDL in line with gate compliance timescales
Operations Communication: Communicate with operations personnel for start-up and shutdown of relevant equipment
Planned Maintenance: Undertake planned and corrective maintenance on Instrument equipment, ensuring any work carried out complies with company procedures
Safety Equipment: Maintain safety-critical equipment in accordance with regulations
System Restoration: Ensure equipment and systems are reinstated to the required condition and performance
Fault Diagnosis: Support diagnostic activities and analysis to rectify faults
Work Reporting: Report all work completed in CMMS (SAP)
Call-out Response: Respond to ‘out of hours’ call-outs
Modification Reporting: Provide input on any modifications made to equipment or systems for reporting to the onshore discipline engineer to update the ‘as-built’ drawing status
Competency Management: Be responsible for the management and completion of the competency profile

5. Instrumentation Technician Accountabilities

Equipment Reliability: Provide safe and reliable equipment and systems to support pipeline and terminal operations in Chippewa Falls, WI, McFarland, WI and Grand Forks, ND
System Maintenance: Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot high and low voltage electrical systems, instrumentation equipment, and SCADA/Terminal Automation control systems.
Facility Operations: Ensure efficient 24/7 operation of loading rack and/or pipeline facilities by maintaining equipment, additive systems, and assist with training of truck drivers on loading procedures and policies.
Operational Support: Provide 24/7 operational support and provide troubleshooting and general support to terminals and pipeline facilities.
Cathodic Protection: Assist with maintaining and troubleshooting the cathodic protection systems.
Hazard Assessment: Assess operating problems with consideration of hazards, including high voltage, high-pressure piping, rotating equipment, chemicals, and flammable materials.
Stakeholder Interaction: Interact with landowners, third-party contractors, public officials, and emergency responders to educate about pipeline safety.
Work Oversight: Direct and oversee third-party work.
Project Startup: Oversee the construction, installation, and startup of capital projects.
Project Management: Assist with developing the project scope of work and ensure projects are completed as specified and within budget.

6. Instrumentation Technician Functions

Operations Coordination: Coordinate operational and maintenance items for terminal and pipeline operations.
Integrity Management: Assist with the area integrity management program.
Safety Committee: Participate in Safety Committee reviews, meetings, discussions, and solution development.
Safety Training: Participate in safety reviews, training, and emergencies.
Team Supervision: Provide indirect supervision of operators, maintenance gang members, and other pipeline technicians, and directly supervise contractors.
Standards Compliance: Keep current on company EHS standards, pipeline and terminal operating procedures, and industry practices.
Equipment Utilization: Utilize a wide range of electrical monitoring equipment, computers, calibration devices, and testing equipment.
PPE Usage: Wear appropriate personal protective equipment, including respirators.
Safety Culture: Maintain and promote a strong safety culture for all employees, vendors, and customers and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations.
Hazard Management: Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions.

7. Instrumentation Technician Job Description

Equipment Maintenance: Work under minimal supervision to repair, service and maintain plant instrumentation, controls and electrical equipment, combustion turbines and generators.
Control Systems: Maintain plant DCIS/PLC control systems and related equipment, including programming changes, troubleshooting, and required preventative and corrective maintenance.
System Troubleshooting: Use PIDs, manuals, and other sources to troubleshoot control of operating plant systems and review and update logic drawings.
Procedure Development: Build and perform procedures related to corrective and preventative maintenance of instrumentation, controls and electrical systems.
Record Maintenance: Maintain documentation records of calibration, tests, and certification of electrical and instrument equipment.
Contractor Oversight: Work with and direct contractors and their activities on assigned projects.
Progress Communication: Communicate work progress to the manager/supervisor.
Work Management: Apply the work management process to document and report work requested, assigned, and completed.
Abnormal Reporting: Report abnormal operation to plant management and O&M supervisor.
Call-out Support: Support scheduled and unscheduled call-out support.
OSHA Compliance: Perform work in accordance with OSHA safety standards applicable to power plants.
Log Maintenance: Maintain plant logs on equipment operation.
Safe Practices: Work safely, following company policies, procedures, and work practices in a positive, professional manner.
Report Preparation: Provide information for various plant reports.

8. Instrumentation Technician Overview

Electrical Testing: Performs skilled electrical and technical work, including testing, inspection and repair of complex mechanical, pneumatic and electronic instruments used in power generation and RDF processing.
Instrumentation Maintenance: Installs, maintains, performs PMs, repairs, calibrates, and adjusts any type of mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, electronic, and other industrial instrumentation, analyzers, and scales.
Power Systems: Installs, repairs and maintains all power transmission lines, transformers, electrical motors, instruments, controls and related equipment.
High Voltage: Inspects, tests, adjusts, repairs, and maintains high voltage equipment of all types, including but not limited to generators, AC and DC motors, MOVs, turbine controls, DC systems, and all other plant-related auxiliaries and instrumentation.
Record Keeping: Maintains accurate, detailed records concerning installation, preventive maintenance and repair of all plant electrical and instrumentation equipment.
Documentation Management: Keeps all blueprints and OEM manuals in neat and proper order.
Heavy Installation: Installs heavy equipment such as bus bar, switchgear and other related items.
Equipment Rigging: Performs rigging on motors and equipment.
Power Operations: Operates and maintains various power houses and RDF equipment such as switches, transformers, relays, breakers and rectifiers necessary for electrical power control.

9. Instrumentation Technician Details and Accountabilities

Instrumentation Knowledge: Performs work requiring a thorough knowledge of instrument application, operation and the electrical and mechanical principles involved in repair, testing and calibration.
System Maintenance: Maintains alarms and automatic shutdown systems activated by one or more process variables.
Job Planning: Plans details of the job assigned, uses sketches, blueprints, schematics, and complex drawings.
Safety Consultation: Consults with operations and technical groups on safety procedures and job hazards.
Workplace Cleanliness: Maintains work areas in a clean and orderly manner.
Safety Training: Attends and participates in scheduled training and safety programs.
Regulation Compliance: Knows, understands and complies with all company safety regulations and procedures.
Shift Flexibility: Follows any assigned shift or schedule.
Code Compliance: Knows and complies with all National and Local Electrical Codes, completing professional work.

10. Instrumentation Technician Tasks

Electrical Diagnosis: Diagnose electrical issues using drawing references and online PLC and HMI tools to support daily production.
Device Calibration: Calibration of various types of instrumentation devices.
Motor Repair: Trouble shoot, repair and install industrial electrical motors, PLCs, HMIs, various control devices, 3-phase and single-phase branch circuits’ problems, and instruments.
Wiring Installation: Install and/or repair wiring, conduit, branch service and power supply for plant equipment and facilities.
Drive Systems: Install/program and troubleshoot adjustable frequency AC and DC motor drives.
Machinery Testing: Tests malfunctioning machinery and discusses malfunctions with Engineering or maintenance workers, such as Maintenance Mechanic, Maintenance Supervisor, to diagnose malfunctions.
Project Support: Support the electrical installation of engineering projects.
Documentation Support: Support to maintain consistent electrical documentation for machine drawings, facility layout and MCC load lines.
Automation Systems: Work on PLC, HMI, Drives, Control Net, Device Net, and Ethernet.
Technical Guidance: Provide technical guidance and training to 1 and 2 mechanics respectively, as well as help leads, supervisors and managers in troubleshooting and repair of all plant systems.
Component Replacement: Diagnose and replace faulty mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic components of machines and equipment.
Equipment Maintenance: Perform troubleshooting, repair and preventative maintenance on a wide variety of equipment, machines and facilities.
Preventive Inspections: Conduct preventative maintenance inspections and perform required preventative maintenance actions as instructed by supervisor or manager.
Tool Utilization: Utilize a wide variety of hand, portable and machine tools to perform assignments.

11. Instrumentation Technician Additional Details

Record Management: Ensure comprehensive records and logs are maintained and effective handovers are carried out at shift and crew change
Spare Parts: Ensures the required supply of spare parts is available, prepares and requisitions items required
Efficiency Improvement: Identify and propose ideas and solutions that will increase efficiency in cost or time without loss of integrity and present ideas to relevant management
Team Support: Support and improve team performance by sharing knowledge and best practices.
Instrument Maintenance: Support the day-to-day running of the platform by safely performing Instrument maintenance tasks on platform utility and production equipment
Safety Culture: Accountable for maintaining a positive safety culture, ensuring that all tasks are carried out within the law and company policies and procedures
Competence Scheme: Participate in the WG competence scheme, including any multi-skilled role, in accordance with the relevant competence framework
Work Flexibility: Adopt a flexible working attitude to provide support across all departments to ensure team success
Relationship Building: Create, maintain and enhance effective working relations and identify and minimise interpersonal conflict
Effective Communication: Maintain effective communication with all work colleagues at all levels

12. Instrumentation Technician Role Purpose

Legislation Knowledge: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation and be able to apply it in the workplace.
Policy Compliance: Ensure all work is conducted in full compliance with company HS&E policy, procedures and Safety Management System.
Safety Rules: Be familiar with and adhere to the Wood Safety Cocoon, with specific focus on the Life Saving Rules.
HSE Compliance: Comply with all relevant Wood HS&E policies and procedures.
HSE Support: Actively participate and support all company Health, Safety and Environmental plans, initiatives and improvements.
Housekeeping Standards: Maintains good housekeeping conditions in the workshop and work sites.
Permit Compliance: Carry out all activities in accordance with ISSOW.
Risk Assessment: Comprehensive and detailed Risk Assessments and Toolbox Talks.
Incident Reporting: Report all accidents and incidents.

13. Instrumentation Technician General Responsibilities

Equipment Monitoring: Check the condition and performance of all instruments and equipment.
Malfunction Reporting: Reports equipment malfunction to Clinical Supervisor/Director and/or Product Manager before the end of the shift.
Supply Management: Check out-dated trays and supplies in the sterile supply cabinet and complete processing appropriately.
Sterilizer Maintenance: Check and maintain washer/sterilizer equipment.
Patient Transport: Provide patient transportation throughout the surgical department.
Patient Transfer: Assist with the transfer of the patient from the surgical table to the gurney or bed at the end of the procedure.
PACU Assistance: Assist the nurse and Anesthesiologist with transporting the patient to the PACU.
Sterilization Knowledge: Maintain current knowledge of sterilization equipment and techniques.
Infection Control: Practices universal precautions, infection control procedures and good body mechanics.
Patient Support: Serve as an additional resource person in the provision of patient care, as procedures require the need for additional support/positioning personnel.
Workplace Safety: Maintain a neat and safe work environment.
Staff Training: Assist with the training of new personnel.

14. Instrumentation Technician Key Accountabilities

Environmental Protection: Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of employees, customers, and the communities in which operate and/or transport products.
Process Safety: Support the Process Safety and Risk Management goals and objectives.
Risk Reduction: Participate in site-wide Process Safety and Risk Reduction activities.
Safety Observation: Look for opportunities to be the 'fresh set of eyes' in this area.
Safety Training: Actively participate in plant-wide training to support quality and safety needs, including ISO, OSHA VPP.
Work Reliability: Provide attention to detail and dedication to work in order to ensure reliability of the work site as well as high-quality product.
Employee Support: Ensure that and others are respected, supported and encouraged to grow and succeed in their job.
Instrumentation Maintenance: Install, maintain, inspect, troubleshoot, repair and perform preventative maintenance on all plant instrumentation, control systems, analyzers and electrical equipment.
Problem Diagnosis: Be responsible for prompt and accurate diagnosis of minor problems and the implementation of corrective action.
Vendor Consultation: Consult directly with equipment vendors on problems for resolution.
Tool Operation: Set up and operate limited types of shop tools and specialized test, measuring equipment and hand tools utilized in any phase of machine installation or maintenance.
Equipment Testing: Conduct evaluation tests on valves, motors, instruments, etc.
Specification Research: Research specifications for materials, testing and repair of instrumentation and electrical equipment.

15. Instrumentation Technician Roles and Details

Environmental Compliance: Conform to federal, state, corporate, and plant environmental standards.
Work Order Management: Receive new work orders from the maintenance planner or maintenance supervisor.
Work Scheduling: Plan and schedule his/her own work list by coordinating and communicating this list with other technicians.
Planner Coordination: Coordinate this work with the maintenance planner.
Status Reporting: Communicate the status of work orders completed and scheduled at the daily planning meeting.
Blueprint Reading: Read blueprints, P&IDs, single-lines, and wiring schematics.
Planned Maintenance: Perform planned maintenance of plant instrumentation.
Instrument Calibration: Utilize test equipment to calibrate plant instrumentation.
Loop Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and repair electronic and pneumatic instrument loops.
File Management: Maintain the instrument and electrical filing system, both electronic and paper systems.
Call-out Response: Accept call-ins, weekend duty, and overtime by the maintenance team leader.
Material Procurement: Procure all equipment and materials necessary for work completion.
Training Participation: Be responsible for participating in required training.
Safety Training: Safety training by Evonik Ind, OSHA, EPA, etc.

16. Instrumentation Technician Responsibilities and Key Tasks

Mechanical Integrity: Maintains and improves the mechanical integrity of equipment to achieve safe, reliable, and incident-free operations.
Safe Practices: Follows safe work practices, basic maintenance procedures and enthusiastically contributes to a safe work culture.
Environmental Compliance: Performs regulatory-required environmental compliance testing and maintains documentation.
Instrumentation Maintenance: Completes maintenance activities on instrumentation in operating units.
Cost Reduction: Identifies opportunities for equipment repair cost reduction and maintains and/or increases repair quality.
Work Evaluation: Evaluates work requests for routine and emergency instrument work.
Diagram Utilization: Utilizes P&IDs, schematics, and loop sheets to complete assigned tasks.
Transmitter Repair: Repairs and calibrates flow, pressure, level, temperature, and differential pressure transmitters.
Controller Tuning: Repairs and tunes various types of controllers associated with process instrumentation.
Equipment Installation: Installs and/or removes field and panel-mounted equipment.
Valve Calibration: Pulls, repairs, and calibrates pneumatic/electric actuated control valves.
Switch Installation: Installs and sets pressure, temperature, flow, level switches, and monitoring devices to ensure proper operation.
Preventive Maintenance: Performs PMs on various process instruments.

17. Instrumentation Technician Duties and Roles

PLC Maintenance: Daily maintenance and troubleshooting of PLC platforms, Building Operation WorkStation, CIP software, WWTP and RTO software, processing and warehouse instrumentation.
Hardware Maintenance: Hardware diagnostics and maintenance, including cleaning of control cabinets, cabinet cooling installation, battery replacement, organizing cabinets and maintaining tidy wiring.
Software Upgrades: Software maintenance and upgrades, program archiving, and retaining the most recent backup.
Parts Advisory: Advice on parts, components and updated software ordering.
Documentation Management: Maintain documentation for installation, maintenance and troubleshooting procedures for reference purposes.
Equipment Testing: Participate in the test and approval of new equipment logic and communication before hand-off.
Control Improvement: Improve the quality of interfaces, general controls improvement, and eliminate control issues based on operators' and techs' requests.
Sensor Upgrading: Upgrading product sensing equipment, selecting the least expensive, reliable, and longest-lasting.
Safety Compliance: Adheres to all Safety and GMP regulations.

18. Instrumentation Technician Roles and Responsibilities

HSE Improvement: Support a culture of continuous HSE performance improvement via transfer of knowledge and sharing of best practices.
Standards Compliance: Ensuring compliance with the Company's performance standards.
Priority Liaison: Liaise with the instrument team Lead and Site leadership to determine and agree on priorities.
Maintenance Execution: Carry out maintenance activities in accordance with the client's and industry standard policies and procedures.
System Reinstatement: Ensure equipment, systems and work sites are reinstated to the required standard.
Permit Control: Utilise the ISSOW system to act as PA, control worksite and liaise with the AA.
Vendor Support: Support Instrument, Control vendors and Subcontractors.
Technical Guidance: Provide guidance and support for all team members in terms of Instrumental technical issues.
Communication Skills: Maintain effective communication with work colleagues at all levels.
Data Recording: Ensure work history is comprehensively recorded in line with data quality requirements for maintenance-related activity.
Team Leadership: Stand in for Instrument Team Lead when identified and suitably trained.
Production Support: Actively contribute towards production management and effective utilisation of the asset’s Production Loss Management System.
Threat Management: Identify asset threats and opportunities and actively support the maintenance process.
Cost Reduction: Identify opportunities for cost reduction and removal of low-value activities.

19. Associate Instrumentation Technician Duties

Task Completion: Timely completion of tasks and work orders with appropriate documentation according to standard operating procedures, applicable standards, guidelines, practices, and policies.
Instrument Maintenance: Perform hands-on calibrations, diagnostics, repairs and maintenance of industrial process control instruments or systems, laboratory instruments and analyzers, and utilities in a cGMP/cGXP environment, while minimizing instrumentation and equipment downtime, ensuring that manufacturing operations and functional support departments are enabled to successfully make, assess and release Seagen drug products 24/7.
Quality Documentation: Complete various quality systems and CMMS documentation.
Remote Monitoring: Maintain Remote Monitoring equipment.
Safe Compliance: Work to be completed safely according to planning and predefined schedules with minimal impact to production while complying with GMP, SOP, CFR and Seagen regulations.
Cross-Functional Interaction: Interact with peers and clients in manufacturing, maintenance, analytical labs and contracted services.
General Duties: Perform general labor duties and may work in a variety of locations and jobs.
On-Call Support: Participate in On-Call rotations for the after-hours facility and manufacturing support and work outside of established shift hours upon short notice, such as evenings and weekends.

20. Instrumentation Technician Details

Problem Diagnosis: Diagnose problems and provide troubleshooting solutions.
Diagram Creation: Create diagrams and drawings for various electronic components and devices.
Visual Guidelines: Create visual guidelines for manufacturing purposes.
BOM Preparation: Create the Bill of Materials for manufacturing purposes.
Equipment Repair: Assembling, repairing, formatting, and refurbishing all malfunctions in the equipment and replacing necessary parts.
Record Keeping: Keeping a logbook record of all electronic repair and maintenance work that has been done.
Engineering Support: Assisting the engineering staff in designing, developing, and manufacturing electrical goods and equipment.
Electrical Diagnosis: Diagnosis of electrical problems and repairing them under supervision.
Circuit Testing: Testing electrical circuits and ensuring their effective operation and safety.

21. Instrumentation Technician Responsibilities

Problem Reporting: Recording any kind of electrical problems and reporting them.
Soldering Work: Melts and applies solder along adjoining edges of work pieces to solder joints, using a soldering iron.
Component Replacement: Replaces defective components and wiring.
Component Testing: Tests electronic components and circuits to locate defects, using signal generators, amp meters, and voltmeters and other measurement equipment.
Component Calibration: Calibrate and program precision electronic components.
Repair Records: Maintains records of repairs, calibrations, and tests and documents related processes.
Program Entry: Enters information into a computer to copy a program from one electronic component to another, or to draw, modify, or store schematics.
Specification Evaluation: Evaluating the company’s product specifications and examining them with customer requirements.
Product Compliance: Ensuring product compliance with international and national legislation and standards.
Data Analysis: Collating and analyzing performance charts and data against defined parameters.

22. Instrumentation Technician Job Summary

HSE Compliance: Adhere to all company Environmental, Health, and Safety policies and procedures set out by the HSE department Manager.
Equipment Assistance: Assist Journeyman and other apprentices with the maintenance, replacement and installation of equipment.
Tubing Installation: Assist with calibrations and installations requiring instrumentation tubing.
Tool Usage: Use of hand tools, power tools, testing equipment and specialty tools, such as tubing benders.
Advanced Calibration: Use of more advanced calibration equipment such as Hart Communicators, and programs.
Test Equipment: Use of basic Instrumentation Test Equipment and should be able to complete calibrations.
Meter Testing: Able to work on or with more advanced meters, checking for continuity, resistance, voltages and current readings.
System Operation: Able to work on or with more advanced systems such as compressor panels, RTUs, BMS, Line heaters, and production facility equipment.
Detection Knowledge: Knowledge of Gas Detection, LEL Detection and Fire Detection controllers and sensors.
Device Calibration: Capable of setting set points on safety shutdown devices and should be able to complete calibrations unattended in most situations.

23. Instrumentation Technician Accountabilities

Project Support: Participates actively in the execution of the projects from the Industry 4.0 roadmap by bringing technical support and expertise.
Automation Support: Actively support the Industry 4.0 project managers in industrial automation and digitalisation options.
Project Leadership: Led some of the Industry 4.0 projects related to instrumentation and electrical equipment.
Instrumentation Expertise: Develops a strong expertise in instrumentation and provides mentorship for the on-site electrical and automation teams, also via technical training.
Supplier Coordination: Provide technical clarifications to suppliers and issue a Recommendation for Purchase.
Process Optimization: Optimizes the site's existing processes with state-of-the-art technologies to optimize efficiency, productivity, quality, safety and profitability.
Team Mentorship: Provides mentorship for the team and on-site production, also via technical training.
Technical Assistance: Provides technical assistance to solve complex process issues, understanding the root causes and implementing improvement actions to prevent recurrence.
Product Development: Participates actively in the development of new products by bringing technical support and expertise.

24. Instrumentation Technician Functions

Equipment Maintenance: Remove, install, clean, calibrate, maintain and troubleshoot electrical, instrumentation and distributive control equipment throughout various industrial facilities safely and professionally.
Device Handling: Equipment may include various transmitters, transducers, meters, relays, switches, instruments, systems and devices.
Issue Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot electrical and instrumentation issues, including switchgear, control panels, transmitters, control valves, transformers, relays, motor starters, breakers, control wiring and UPS systems.
System Repair: Repair and troubleshoot equipment such as computer-based control systems, pressure regulators, variable speed drive equipment and overhead cranes.
Work Prioritization: Prioritize work, schedule plans, and follow up on directed assignments.
Emergency Response: Respond and report to work during off-hours when emergency repairs.
Valve Maintenance: Maintenance of pneumatic and motor-operated valves and actuators.
Preventive Maintenance: Perform electrical preventative, repair, and calibration maintenance procedures safely and professionally with minimal supervision in accordance with Federal and State regulations and company policies.
Equipment Operation: Operate other equipment, including industrial forklifts, man lifts, skid steer type loaders, and other mobile equipment.
Diagram Reading: Read and understand various single-line, 3-line, electrical, pneumatic, piping and instrumentation diagrams and drawings.

25. Instrumentation Technician Job Description

Calibration Activities: Schedule, coordinate and perform equipment calibration activities on all types of mechanical, electrical and electronic equipment by the Calibration program.
Database Administration: Administer the Maximo database to coordinate, monitor, schedule and control the preventive maintenance, calibration, repairs, work orders and any other activity related to the ATCC equipment and assets.
System Administration: Administer the Rees Temperature Monitoring System.
Software Administration: Administer Pro Cal and/or any other calibration support software.
Configuration Support: Provide configuration support, data reporting, monitoring, updating, and training on the Maximo and Rees systems.
Contractor Coordination: Coordinate work and monitor the performance of any external contractor working on the premises.
System Improvement: Recommend upgrades or improvements on utilities and facilities systems to increase operational efficiency.
Room Champion: Perform as a room champion in the Facilities areas.
Safety Compliance: Comply with the established safety procedures and guidelines at all times.

26. Instrumentation Technician Overview

Sensor Calibration: Calibrate electrical pneumatic sensors, indicators and transmitters for process parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, pH, conductivity, force, platform scale, analytical balance, etc.
Work Order Review: Review calibration work and preventive maintenance work orders for compliance with relevant SOPs and GMP, and issue appropriate change controls.
Problem Analysis: Analyze process instruments for potential calibration problems and support further troubleshooting of process problems.
Equipment Repair: Perform repairs and maintenance and support the maintenance department in effective resolutions of process equipment problems.
Work Scheduling: Schedule and complete calibration work on time through effective coordination with the processing department or external contractors.
SOP Management: Review and update existing calibration SOPs and prepare new SOPs.
Deviation Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot calibration deviations and repair or replace the defective instruments.
Quality Investigation: Initiate updated quality investigations for calibration failure and help complete corrective and preventive action items on time.
Audit Support: Help investigate audit observations for calibration work and explain various deviations with supporting documents.

27. Sr Instrumentation Technician Details and Accountabilities

Work Coordination: Coordinate work described below with test lab managers, engineers, and technicians, as well as interfacing with instrumentation suppliers to keep the Test Labs running efficiently and effectively.
Transducer Calibration: Perform calibrations on physical transducers and engineering laboratories' test equipment.
Transducer Handling: Transducers include load cells, torque cells, LVDTs, RVDTs, pressure, thermocouples, accelerometers, encoders, and Fluke handheld equipment.
Signal Configuration: Configure physical signal conditioners for strain-based transducers.
Equipment Repair: Troubleshoot and repair test equipment, contact external vendors.
Cable Fabrication: Fabricate custom transducer cables and wiring harnesses.
Controller Maintenance: Maintain the test controllers and computers that run them.
Database Management: Update the calibration database and document equipment repair in the SharePoint system.
Lab Maintenance: Maintain the Instrumentation Lab equipment, calibration standards, and supplies.
Procurement Management: Purchase new equipment and supplies.
Lab Representation: Represent the Instrumentation Lab on Quality and Safety initiatives.
Test Stand Development: Assist in developing new test stands for specific applications.

28. Instrumentation Technician Tasks

Department Collaboration: Reporting to the Electrical Supervisor, the Instrumentation Technician will perform his/her duties as a member of the Maintenance Department and collaborate with other departments of the division.
Equipment Installation: Be responsible for the installation and maintenance of all equipment related to instrumentation and control for the process plant.
Electrical Tasks: Perform various electrical tasks related to motors as well as tasks related to the PLC.
Safety Compliance: Ensure that the goals and objectives are achieved, while promoting and respecting Agnico Eagle’s culture, Health and Safety Code of Conduct, and the environment.
Instrument Handling: Work on instruments such as transducers, gas detectors, weightometers, flow controllers, and various chemical process analyzers and sensors, ensuring all systems are wired to communicate with the PLC.
Equipment Maintenance: Be responsible for instrumentation equipment maintenance.
PLC Troubleshooting: Perform field work and troubleshooting using the PLC.
Equipment Tuning: Perform tuning and equipment adjustments.
Reading Accuracy: Ensure that the instrument readings are reliable and accurate at all times.
Drawing Updates: Perform drawing updates with AutoCad.
Data Sheet Management: Build and maintain instrumentation data sheets.
Workplace Safety: Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
Incident Reporting: Report all near-misses and incidents to the supervisor.

29. Instrumentation Technician Roles

Breakdown Response: Respond to machine breakdowns due to electrical malfunctions or hardware/software failure.
Preventive Maintenance: Conduct preventative maintenance tasks for all electrical equipment and instruments.
Procedure Drafting: Draft calibration and preventative maintenance procedures for new and existing instruments.
Equipment Installation: Install and troubleshoot new and modified equipment.
Project Work: Conduct project work/electrical upgrades and monitor contractor project work and upgrades.
System Repair: Monitor and repair the facility and emergency system electrical failures.
Instrument Calibration: Follow calibration procedures to calibrate all the instruments in the plant calibration program.
Safety Compliance: Follow all plant and department procedures, GMPs, JSAs and general plant safety rules.
Employee Training: Lead other employees and provide OJT for people new to the department, and record and communicate shift activity in an organized manner.
Emergency Troubleshooting: Responding to equipment emergencies, troubleshooting system input/outputs and multiple sensing devices.
Production Communication: Communicating routinely with line personnel and supervision to maintain knowledge of the latest production schedule, communicating potential equipment problems to production and maintenance supervisors to allow scheduling of repairs.
Logic Programming: Looking for and implementing equipment and outputs, and finding analog control values in the PLC logic programming.
Electrical Maintenance: Be responsible for calibrating, troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining the electrical equipment and instruments of the Columbus.
Record Compliance: Accurately complete calibration records in compliance with all corporate, state and federal regulations.
Quality System: Be responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.

30. Instrumentation Technician Additional Details

Safety Training: Completes all required safety training and conducts all work in accordance with Micron and Technology Development (TD) safety policies.
Work Stoppage: Stops work for safety if unsafe conditions and/or behaviors are identified.
Hazard Analysis: Utilizes and reviews job hazard analysis (JHA/JSA) for work being performed.
Procedure Compliance: Follows all safety and environmental procedures to ensure compliance with applicable regulations, including PPE, CoHE (lockout/tagout) and chemical safety.
Issue Resolution: Follows up on safety and quality-related issues immediately and works towards resolution with stakeholders.
EHS Participation: Actively participates in the EHS program by reporting all EHS-related concerns or problems immediately (maximum 24 hours).
Audit Facilitation: Performs and facilitates audits and submits good catches.
Hazard Reduction: Proactively identifies opportunities to reduce potential hazards that may impact personnel health and/or the environment.
Ergonomic Practices: Uses proper lifting techniques and works in an ergonomically correct manner.
Change Management: Follows proper change management practices to ensure safety and quality expectations are met.
Quality Improvement: Drives quality improvement initiatives in their area to reduce Fab impacts, improve efficiency and identify cost savings.

31. Instrumentation Technician Essential Functions

Equipment Operation: Operates and maintains equipment and tools within manufacturer’s and company guidelines to ensure safety and quality expectations are met.
Procedure Management: Ensures area-specific procedures and documents exist and submits updates to content.
Maintenance Recommendations: Makes recommendations related to preventative maintenance and other non-routine issues.
Goal Setting: Collaborates with area leaders to create personal performance and development goals.
Data Monitoring: Partners with key stakeholders to monitor data to continuously improve critical metrics.
Issue Resolution: Partners with stakeholders to resolve equipment/process issues and maximize system stability.
Proactive Communication: Communicates proactively with leaders and stakeholders on the daily priorities and issues.
Meeting Participation: Attends and participates in meetings and provides input.
Shift Handover: Ensures the pass-down is accurate and reflects the current work status.
Area Improvement: Partners with area leaders and stakeholders to gather input for area improvement.
Change Control: Communicates changes made to equipment and follows business rules for change control.
Impact Communication: Proactively communicates issues that could cause Fab impact, defects, tool restrictions, or lost moves.

32. Instrumentation Technician Role Purpose

Project Management: Supports or manages area projects to ensure deliverables are completed within the required scope and schedule.
Meeting Participation: Participates in or leads project meetings and completes assigned actions.
Action Prioritization: Partners with the leader to prioritize project action items.
Action Tracking: Tracks actions and provides an escalation path to ensure actions will be completed on time.
Process Compliance: Follows proper business processes for maintaining, installing, modifying, or removing facility equipment.
Technical Tasks: Independently performs technical tasks.
Assignment Execution: Follows general instructions on new assignments.
Routine Work: Works on assignments that are semi-routine in nature.
Problem Resolution: Applies judgment in quickly resolving routine problems.
Troubleshooting Support: Troubleshot problems where reference materials are available.
Non-routine Judgment: Applies limited judgment in resolving non-routine problems.
Process Monitoring: Monitors, analyzes and addresses issues for area processes.
Issue Escalation: Supports and monitors area processes and addresses/escalates issues.

33. Instrumentation Technician General Responsibilities

Equipment Monitoring: Monitors equipment to resolve equipment issues and maximize system stability.
Cost Reduction: Supports area cost reduction activities.
Issue Support: Provides effective and timely support to resolve equipment issues.
Alarm Resolution: Identifies and resolves chronic equipment alarm issues.
Defect Reduction: Identifies and reduces equipment defects to improve quality.
TPM Culture: Drives a culture of TPM, including TPM metrics, CIP items, MTAGs, and procedures.
Equipment Installation: Assists with installation, modification and removal of facilities equipment.
Tool Maintenance: Maintains tools and equipment in working order.
Alarm Response: Identifies and responds according to alarm conditions.
Work Order Completion: Completes all assigned PMs and work orders in a timely and thorough manner.
Data Collection: Assists with gathering data for analysis.
Record Maintenance: Maintains records on testing and calibrations of equipment.
Knowledge Maintenance: Maintains applicable discipline knowledge, such as data communications, instrumentation theory, and calibration theory.

34. Instrumentation Technician Key Accountabilities

Maintenance Activities: Conduct predictive, preventative and corrective regular maintenance on all instrumentation and control equipment.
Site Maintenance: Maintain all KAPS LACT, Booster, terminal and block valve sites.
Equipment Maintenance: Maintain all LACT skids, ESD valves, EFOY units, samplers, Communication/Radio networks, Leak detection equipment, and DCS changes.
Operational Excellence: Actively support Operational Excellence and Asset Management and Reliability programs.
Problem Solving: Provide troubleshooting and problem solving with specific attention to safety, quality and plant production.
Control Systems: Work with control systems such as PLCs, DCSs, SCADA networks, and RTUs.
Process Equipment: Calibrate, troubleshoot, repair and optimize plant process control equipment such as control valves, transmitters, custody transfer meters and gas chromatographs.
Work Coordination: Support the Maintenance Lead in coordinating work activities with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering.
Change Management: Create and manage Management of Change (MOC) work packages, ensuring all completed work adheres to engineering, regulatory and design engineering scope.
Pipeline Support: Provide troubleshooting and problem solving with specific attention to safety, quality and pipeline production.

35. Instrumentation Technician Roles and Details

Safety Promotion: Promote safety programs designed to assure safe working conditions and eliminate workplace accidents.
Installation Oversight: Accountable for all PLC, drive, instrumentation and electrical installations.
Issue Troubleshooting: Program and troubleshoot any instrumentation or electrical issues.
Procedure Development: Develop and review procedures and provide training for others to handle routine PLC control or electrical issues during normal off-hours.
Shift Support: Provides off-shift troubleshooting.
Control Changes: Develop and execute changes to PLC controls by working with line engineers and maintenance technicians.
Documentation Management: Maintain the documentation for the electrical and PLC controls for each process, including drawings, diagrams, manuals, installation disks/CDs and any other pertinent information.
Change Tracking: Follow a controlled PLC change system that will track changes.
Parts Management: Conduct and maintain the necessary contacts for ensuring that PLC controls and equipment are current and that the necessary spare parts are available.
Project Support: Support engineering projects for new equipment evaluations, installations and startups where PLC controls or electrical equipment are being used.

36. Instrumentation Technician Responsibilities and Key Tasks

Innovation Skills: Completes tasks in innovative and effective ways.
Advanced Maintenance: Performs Advanced Preventive/Corrective Maintenance.
Method Development: Develops new methods for corrective maintenance/repairs.
Improvement Projects: Tasked with completing PM/CPM improvement projects.
Process Improvement: Identifies areas of business process improvement opportunities and provides input as to which improvement projects need to be pursued.
Root Cause Analysis: Troubleshoots, down to root cause, highly complex issues that lower-level technicians are unable to resolve.
Maintenance Decisions: Decides which type of maintenance is needed, selects parts for replacement.
Invoice Review: Reviews and submits vendor invoices and payments.
Mentorship Training: Mentors/trains lower-level technicians.
Department Interaction: Understands interactions with other departments in activities such as maintenance scheduling.
Meeting Leadership: Leads pass-down and other meetings.
Staff Liaison: Serves as liaison between senior staff and other technicians, communicates and represents SAS company initiatives.
Inspection Oversight: Conduct and/or oversee routine inspections and investigations.
Data Interpretation: Interprets complex data from equipment, processes, etc.
Schematic Interpretation: Interprets issues/questions regarding schematics, diagrams, written/verbal instructions, layouts, or defined plans.

37. Instrumentation Technician Duties and Roles

Sensor Installation: Installation of instrumentation sensors.
Sensor Cabling: Cabling of instrumentation sensors.
System Setup: Setting up data acquisition systems, including scale factor, sampling rates and filter frequencies.
System Operation: Operation of the data acquisition system during testing operations in the laboratory, on track and remotely.
Data Interpretation: Reading and interpreting electronic data charts during testing operations.
Log Preparation: Prepares accurate testing run logs by test engineers and project managers.
Plan Interpretation: Read and interpret test plans, schedules, and other written instructions received from the test engineers and project managers.
Rule Compliance: Accountable for compliance with all operating rules, policies and guidelines.
Safety Training: Attend rules and safety classes and ensure all rules are followed by the Company, FRA, and other governing agencies.

38. Instrumentation Technician Duties

Work Order Maintenance: Perform all work order maintenance, troubleshooting, and calibration of plant equipment.
Control Equipment: Troubleshoot, inspect, test, maintain, repair, clean and calibrate instrumentation and solid state and microprocessor-based control equipment, including plant communications equipment, programmable controllers, distributive control systems, generator excitation equipment, battery chargers, and semiconductor devices.
Device Repair: Repair or replace control devices such as switches, photo eyes, proximity sensors, pushbuttons, contactors, motor starters, transmitters, etc.
Instrument Installation: Install control and measurement instruments on existing or new plant equipment.
Test Equipment Usage: Use a wide range of test equipment, including recorders, computers, control and tuning modules, PC based software analyzer programs, oscilloscopes, data analyzers, logic test equipment, analogue and digital multi-meters, meggars, and other test equipment, while performing tests to identify problems and to maintain and calibrate equipment to performance standards.
Inspection Rounds: Make regular inspection rounds of plant instrumentation and control equipment.
Procedure Development: Assist in developing detailed preventive and predictive maintenance procedures for plant instrumentation and control equipment.
Equipment Modification: Install, build, or modify plant instrument and control equipment by the Instrumentation Engineer or Section Head.
PLC Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting, repair, and minor programming of various PLC control systems, frequency drives and other electrical equipment.
Safety Compliance: Participate in plant safety, health and environmental programs and observe safety in accordance with government and company standards.

39. Instrumentation Technician Accountabilities

Test Programming: Setting up and conducting instrumented test programs of all types.
Methodology Development: Working individually and within a team environment to determine the best test methodologies and document test execution.
Equipment Calibration: Calibrating, maintaining, and repairing instrumentation equipment and transducers.
System Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting instrumentation and other electronic systems.
Circuit Design: Circuit design, breadboarding, and interpreting electrical/electronic schematics.
Cable Assembly: Building cable assemblies that interface with various equipment.
Team Support: Serving individually or as a team technician in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
Test Setup Support: Supporting consultant engineers by developing and creating custom test setups.
Equipment Evaluation: Specifying and evaluating new lab test equipment required for conducting existing and new test specifications.
Electronics Building: Building basic electronics equipment used to conduct testing and to interconnect various pieces of hardware.

40. Instrumentation Technician Roles

QA Compliance: Follow ECI QA procedures and work instructions in the ECI service shop and on-site.
Repair Response: Respond to scheduled and unscheduled repairs.
Outage Support: Work during outage season and adhere to vacation blackouts (typically October and April each year).
On-Call Response: Respond to occasional on-call requests outside the regular work hours.
Parts Notification: Notifies supervisor regarding parts or equipment in need of repair or replacement.
Safety Practices: Performs all duties according to safety procedures and safety best practices.
Testing Requirements: Take the Mechanical Aptitude Test and submit to random drug and alcohol testing through the DISA program.
Safety Reporting: Notifies supervisor of any safety concerns on or off-site.

41. Instrumentation Technician Additional Details

Equipment Installation: Position, maintain and install measurement and control equipment such as valves, analyzers, control systems, gauges, and transmitters.
System Configuration: Configure, backup and maintain control and monitoring systems to meet process engineering requirements.
Instrument Maintenance: Install, verify, commission, replace, maintain and repair instrument systems and related instrument equipment.
Fault Diagnosis: Use pneumatic, electrical and electronic testing devices to inspect and test instrument and system operation, and diagnose faults.
Standards Compliance: Install and maintain instruments on new or existing plant equipment and processes, by interpreting and using appropriate CSA, ISA, and API installation standards and practices.
Project Participation: Participate in capital project development, design and installation.
Record Management: Maintain and update maintenance records through InTools to ensure ongoing documentation integrity.
Safety Participation: Actively participate in team safety meetings, audits and Job Task Observations (JTOs) of peers.

42. Instrumentation Technician Role Purpose

Safety Compliance: Adhere to all plant safety and operating guidelines.
Maintenance Support: Perform as a team member while supporting the planned, preventative, and/or predictive maintenance activities that support the electrical and process control systems of the plant.
Troubleshooting Skills: Perform as a team member or independently to troubleshoot, diagnose, and propose and implement electrical power and control equipment, as well as process control component repair solutions.
Standards Knowledge: Comprehend and implement standard electrical work practices and guidelines, include those outlined by such organizations as the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the IEEE, to ensure a quality as well as a compliant product.
System Utilization: Utilize the functions of the maintenance management system to facilitate job plans and record maintenance activities on plant assets.
Work Communication: Communicate job status and support requirements with co-workers and management for effective use of time while completing the assigned maintenance tasks.
Food Safety: Understands their role in food safety and quality systems, actively participates in food safety efforts and ensures all activities conform to good manufacturing practices.
Issue Reporting: Reporting of issues, faults and failures using the company's processes and systems.
Equipment Care: Keeping test equipment in good working order.

43. Instrumentation Technician General Responsibilities

Instrument Calibration: Calibrate, repair, and troubleshoot a wide range of instruments used for all functions in the facility with minimal supervision.
Time Management: Manage time and professional development with the assistance of Lead Tech or Supervisor.
Safety Compliance: Follow safety procedures, recommended practices, job hazard analysis (JHA) and comply with plant safety programs at all times.
Shop Safety: Know general shop safety practices, including handling and storage of calibration standards.
Regulatory Compliance: Ensure activities comply with standard operating procedures (SOPs), Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), and other related regulatory practices.
Testing Equipment: Use electrical testing equipment, including multi-meters, clamp-on current meters, meggers, etc., safely.
Process Instruments: Calibrate, troubleshoot, repair and replace process instruments as a part of the plant's maintenance program.
Instrument Maintenance: Maintain process instruments, including valves, vibration monitors and other instruments.
Environmental Testing: Perform required environmental compliance testing and documentation.
Cost Reduction: Reduce cost of repairing equipment while maintaining or increasing the quality of repairs.
Operations Support: Work closely with plant operations to evaluate both routine and emergency instrument work.
Hazard Mitigation: Actively contribute to creating a safe working environment by identifying hazards and proactively mitigating them.
Preventive Maintenance: Perform preventative maintenance on control system components, instrumentation, and electrical systems.
System Repair: Repair and troubleshoot instrumentation devices and systems while ensuring systems are compliant, and maintain documentation on the repairs.
Equipment Installation: Install new instrumentation equipment throughout the facility.

44. Instrumentation Technician Key Accountabilities

Instrumentation Operations: Provide instrumentation modifications, improvements, and operations for 53rd Wing test aircraft test instrumentation packages at Edwards AFB, CA.
System Evaluation: Evaluate, upgrade, modify and operate instrumentation systems before, during, and after test missions.
System Design: Design, integration, functional checkouts, and mission data capture activities.
Mission Support: Manage instrumentation equipment, conduct pre- and post-mission activities, and perform functional checkouts, and post-mission data management for the Wing instrumentation systems, including the Data Acquisition Recording and Telemetry (DART).
Aircraft Integration: Design, integrate and test instrumentation systems for test aircraft use and system operational testing.
System Development: Assist with the design, development, and fabrication of instrumentation systems using subsystems that include pulse code modulation telemetry, high-speed video, airborne radar sensors, precision navigation sensors, and solid-state recorders.
System Oversight: Oversee aircraft electronic system readings and system tests and prepare technical reports of the aircraft equipment, electronic systems, devices, and gear to support airborne electronic warfare and weapons development programs.
Flight Support: Plan, organize, and establish schedules and support efforts for pre-flight and post-flight check-out of aircraft instrumentation systems.
Test Planning: Select or devise the basic approach necessary to meet test objectives, determine techniques to be used, and design pre-flight and post-flight data reduction requirements.
Travel Flexibility: Travel on military and commercial aircraft and work other than normal duty hours, including evenings, weekends, holidays, shift work, and overtime.
Program Management: Manage the site’s implementation of the instruments and controls program, developing and improving instrument capabilities, reliability, and PM requirements.
Subject Expertise: Serves as the subject matter expert for all I&E efforts, including assessing recommendations with sound practices, identifying necessary improvements, and tracking action items to completion.
Loop Management: Manage the site’s instrument control loops to ensure accuracy.

45. Instrumentation Technician Roles and Details

Schedule Adherence: Employee must keep up with the daily schedule, meet or exceed instrumentation availability for dummy builds and crash operations.
Equipment Maintenance: Perform maintenance/repairs to instrumentation and other electronic equipment related to the crash operation facility.
Data Troubleshooting: Review post-test data anomalies and investigate/troubleshoot the root cause of the problem.
Logistics Support: Conduct inter-department pick up/delivery of crash test dummies and instrumentation.
Inventory Management: Maintain inventory of crash test dummy instrumentation, promptly repair broken instrumentation, send due-calibration instrumentation out for calibration, and monitor spare instrumentation inventory to keep within a 1-year calibration cycle.
Crash Support: Support WorldSID/Crash Designer process (Internal Dummy DAS).
Instrument Calibration: Perform instrument calibrations, including temperature, pressure, flow, and other variables.
Program Management: Manage the site’s instrument and controls program, developing and improving instrument capabilities, reliability, and PM requirements.
Subject Expertise: Serves as the subject matter expert for all I&E efforts, including assessing recommendations with sound practices, identifying necessary improvements, and tracking action items to completion.
Project Execution: Completes various small capital instrument/controls projects, including equipment improvements or replacements, safety or environmental projects, and any other identified improvement projects.
System Improvement: Recommends instrument/controls systems’ modifications and/or replacement to improve plant performance.
Technology Awareness: Remains up-to-date on technology as it pertains to instrument and controls reliability.

46. Instrumentation Technician Responsibilities and Key Tasks

Shift Operations: Perform the duties of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal Maintenance Instrument Technician in a 4-10 or a 7-12 rotational shift environment, including holidays, weekends and nights.
Equipment Maintenance: Maintains Instrumentation equipment on all pumps, compressors, gas turbines, motors, vessels, utilities, piping, tanks, unloading arms, etc.
Environmental Compliance: Maintain the facility, recognizing the environmental consequences of actions taken and striving for the highest levels of environmental and safety compliance.
Data Recording: Record maintenance data and inform the Maintenance Instrument Supervisor of potential problems and failures promptly.
Problem Resolution: Works with Maintenance Instrument Supervisor to expeditiously resolve problems and improve plant reliability and safety.
Surgical Support: Be responsible for performing advanced, complex, multistep processes and delegated activities to support the operating room team in the care of the surgical patient and various procedural areas within the hospital.
Equipment Reprocessing: Cleaning, packaging and re-processing of reusable surgical equipment, instrumentation and scopes, per manufacturer's guidelines.
Inventory Management: Maintaining inventory and storage of processed supplies.
Surgical Support Activities: Meeting the needs of the surgical team through support of activities in the sterile core.
Calibration Procedures: Perform scheduled instrument and system calibration procedures.
Parameter Testing: Test equipment required to measure pressure, temperature, flow, and level.
Lab Equipment: Maintain standard, specialized, and state-of-the-art laboratory analysis equipment.
System Repair: Diagnose and repair computerized equipment control systems, CNC machinery, and pneumatic and electronic process control instrumentation.

47. Instrumentation Technician Duties and Roles

Preventive Maintenance: Performing preventive and predictive maintenance inspections using diagnostic tools and test equipment and make necessary corrections to keep equipment from failing.
Maintenance Scheduling: Scheduling maintenance for repair work to be performed promptly to minimize negative impact on mill production.
Work Documentation: Writing work orders, recording maintenance results and reading and updating drawings and other documentation.
System Repair: Installing, troubleshooting, diagnosing and repairing electrical and electronic systems, apparatuses, field devices, and components of industrial machinery and equipment.
Valve Rebuilding: Rebuilding valves and other instrument equipment.
Harsh Environment: Working in a loud/noisy, hot, humid, and greasy environment.
Technical Work: Performs highly skilled technical work in the specification, installation, monitoring, maintenance and calibration of equipment and machinery in assigned water or wastewater facilities.
Regulatory Knowledge: Maintains current knowledge of developments in regulatory practices, trends and developments in instrumentation and information technology.
System Integrity: Ensures optimal operating conditions to protect the integrity of the information network and the feedback sequencing of the computer system.
Schedule Compliance: Adheres to established schedules/guidelines for preventive maintenance, safety procedures, work assignments and quality control.
Smart Instrumentation: Be responsible for calibrating, programming, installing and troubleshooting smart process instrumentation such as temperature, pressure, and level transmitters and control valves.
Machinery Operation: Operates various types of machinery in the coke-making process.
Safety Participation: Be responsible for participating in safety activities to meet or exceed organizational goals and expectations.
Relationship Management: Maintains interpersonal relationships with individuals, both external and internal to the organization.

48. Instrumentation Technician Duties

DCS Maintenance: Install, maintain, calibrate and repair the process and DCS hardware and software.
Instrument Testing: Perform tests and maintenance procedures for instruments used for measuring and controlling flow, level, pressure, temperature, chemical composition and other variables in manufacturing and processing.
Component Calibration: Calibrate components and instruments according to manufacturers' specifications.
Preventive Maintenance: Perform scheduled preventive maintenance work and complete test and maintenance reports.
Instrument Installation: Install control and measurement instruments on existing and new plant equipment and processes.
Operator Consultation: Consult with and advise process operators.
Equipment Repair: Repair, maintain, specify, select and install measurement and control equipment such as control valves, analyzers, control system components, indicators, and field transmitters.
System Configuration: Configure, backup and maintain control and monitoring devices and systems to meet process engineering requirements.
Device Commissioning: Install, test and commission new devices and systems.
Fault Diagnosis: Test, troubleshoot, and diagnose faults using appropriate equipment, procedures, and instruction manuals.
Device Maintenance: Install, maintain and calibrate industrial instrumentation and related devices.
Instrumentation Knowledge: Good knowledge of industrial instrumentation and industrial PC applications.
System Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot, repair, calibrate and install a wide variety of pneumatic and electronic instruments.

49. Instrumentation Technician Job Summary

Tubing Wiring: Pneumatic tubing and electrical wiring on existing installations.
Temperature Sensors: Temperature sensors and indicators.
Pressure Sensors: Pressure and vacuum sensors and indicators.
Gas Analysis: Oxygen and gas analysis equipment in laboratories.
Moisture Sensors: Moisture and humidity sensing and indicating systems.
Position Sensors: Sensors and indicators measuring speed, position and timing.
Transmitters Scanners: Pneumatic or electronic transmitters and data scanning systems.
Chemical Equipment: Service, calibration and validation of chemical treatment and monitoring equipment such as dosing pumps and analysers.
Flow Metering: Carry out flow meter commissioning and calibrations on-site in water and wastewater treatment plants.
Documentation Compliance: Ensure all required documentation is completed, and all equipment instrumentation is serviced to company standards.
Planned Maintenance: Carry out maintenance, either planned or reactive.

50. Instrumentation Technician Overview

Drawing Interpretation: Reads and follows assembly drawings, test procedures and other written instructions.
Wire Assembly: Strips and crimps wires, and assembles them into electrical connectors.
Defect Identification: Identifies defects and non-conforming parts and performs in-process inspections.
Form Completion: Completes appropriate manufacturing forms accurately, including fan charts, hour/hour charts.
Failure Troubleshooting: Troubleshot routine test failures to the subassembly level.
Quality Monitoring: Monitors work to ensure quality, and continuously promote Quality First Time.
Instrumentation Maintenance: Maintain, troubleshoot, repair, calibrate, modify, and install/construct instrumentation equipment and controls.
Technical Support: Provide technical input regarding the design, installation, repair, and safe operation of equipment and systems.

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