WHAT DOES AN INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIAN DO?

Published: Sep 23, 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.