Instrumentation & Control Technician II; Austin Water

Job Description About This Position

For over 100 years, Austin Water has been committed to providing safe, reliable, high-quality, and affordable water services to our customers. Today, we serve over 1,000,000 people in the Austin metropolitan area, across more than 548 square miles. As one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, we’re not just keeping up-we’re leading the way with sustainable infrastructure, advanced treatment technology, and environmental innovation.

Austin Water consistently ranks among the best in the country when it comes to water quality. We also treat, return, and recycle wastewater in ways that protect environmental resources. Austin Water exceeds federal and state requirements for clean water and environmental compliance at our water and wastewater treatment plants.

Under general supervision, this position performs tasks related to maintaining, installing, calibrating, and troubleshooting moderately complex journeyman level tasks related to instrumentation and controls systems located at water and wastewater facilities and remote locations.

• Performs moderately difficult diagnostics to analyze problems associated with instrumentation and control systems and programmable logic controllers using test equipment such as electronic meters, simulators, and software applications related to configuration and communications protocols for plant control, networking, DCS, and SCADA systems.
• Performs moderately difficult installations, calibrations, diagnostics, repairs, and replacements of instrumentation and control systems equipment and components for water and wastewater facilities, such as treatment plants, pump stations, and lift stations.
• Performs moderate to difficult installations, calibrations, maintenance, modification and programming of flow meters, transmitters, controllers, and analytical equipment.
• Services hydraulic, electric, pneumatic, and mechanical instruments used for controlling, analyzing, measuring, and recording.
• Communicates with customers to explain purpose of activities that impact services.
• Trains others in safe work practices, equipment installation and calibrations, and facility process control.
• Monitors compliance and communicates safety issues to personnel.
• Reads, interprets, modifies, and updates blueprints, schematics, ladder logic, and diagrams in order to troubleshoot, repair, or modify equipment and to accurately reflect current operating systems.
• Monitors and makes visual inspections of control and instrumentation equipment to determine operating condition and perform preventative maintenance.
• Maintains accurate inventory and maintenance logs.
• Assists in project planning workshops, development meetings, progress meetings, and retrospective review meetings.
• Identifies and makes recommendations concerning technical issues pertaining to electronic instrumentation and controls.

• May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of Federal, State, and Local laws.
• Knowledge of City practices, policies, and procedures.
• Knowledge of water and wastewater treatment facilities.
• Knowledge of the methods, procedures, tools, and equipment used in testing instrumentation and control systems and devices.
• Knowledge of installation, operation, and maintenance of instrumentation and control systems and related equipment.
• Knowledge of the laws,…