Instrumentation and Controls Technician

Company Description

Echogen Power Systems, based in Akron, OH, is a leading developer of supercritical CO₂ (sCO₂) pumped thermal energy storage (PTES) technology for long duration energy storage. The company’s proprietary sCO₂-based PTES systems are designed to deliver safe, reliable, low-cost, and scalable storage that supports baseload renewable energy. Echogen focuses on enabling the clean energy transition by providing low-impact solutions that improve grid flexibility and resilience.

The engineering team leverages proven technologies to significantly enhance performance, sustainability, and energy efficiency. These innovations help customers achieve meaningful cost savings compared with existing energy storage solutions.

Echogen Power Systems is seeking an Instrumentation and Controls Technician to support the assembly, modification, checkout, commissioning, troubleshooting, calibration, maintenance, and operation of novel advanced energy test systems. This hands‑on role combines instrumentation and controls support with practical laboratory, assembly, commissioning, and light fabrication activities required to build, maintain, and operate laboratory‑scale, pilot‑scale, and field‑deployed systems used in Echogen’s energy storage, heat pump, and advanced power‑cycle development programs.

• Support assembly, modification, startup, shakedown, operation, troubleshooting, data collection, and commissioning of lab, pilot‑scale, and fielded advanced energy systems.
• Perform light fabrication and mechanical assembly, including small‑bore tube bending, tubing and fitting installation, instrument mounting, bracket fabrication, equipment upkeep, and minor lab hardware modifications.
• Perform preventive maintenance, inspection, and upkeep of laboratory instrumentation, electrical equipment, process hardware, test facilities, and support systems to maintain test readiness.
• Perform wiring, termination, verification, checkout, and troubleshooting in control panels, junction boxes, field‑device enclosures, and test‑system wiring interfaces.
• Install, configure, calibrate, and maintain field instrumentation and control devices, including pressure, temperature, flow, and level instruments, switches, sensors, actuators, valves, and related equipment.
• Support controls checkout, including I/O verification, instrument signals, alarms, permissives, interlocks, valve actuation, VFD operation, motor controls, and system readiness.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, instrumentation, wiring, calibration, and control‑system issues using engineering documentation, test equipment, and systematic troubleshooting methods.
• Maintain instrument databases, calibration records, test equipment records, redlined drawings, P&IDs, wiring diagrams, and related documentation for engineering update and configuration control.
• Support safe work practices around energized electrical equipment, low‑voltage controls, 120 VAC and 480 VAC systems, VFDs, motor controls, pressurized systems, rotating equipment, high‑temperature systems, and laboratory test loops.

• High school diploma or equivalent required; technical school, associate degree, military technical training, apprenticeship, or equivalent hands‑on experience preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience as an instrumentation, controls, electrical, commissioning, maintenance, lab, or similar hands‑on technical role.
• Strong ability to read, interpret, and troubleshoot using electrical wiring diagrams, loop drawings, cabinet drawings, P&IDs, wiring schematics, one-lines, I/O lists, and instrument documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose and resolve electrical, instrumentation, wiring, and control‑system issues in an industrial,…