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.