SCADA Instrumentation Technician

General Information

Work Location: Water Treatment Plant 17915 Waterline Rd, Bradenton, FL 34212

Work Hours: Monday-Friday 7:00am-3:30pm

Expected Starting Hourly Range: $27.61 - $34.51

Indoor/Outdoor situation; high noise environment while performing certain responsibilities. Lifting equipment up to 50 lbs. alone; up to 100 lbs. with assistance.

This classification performs a variety of advanced technical duties related to operating, maintaining, installing, and troubleshooting instrumentation, process control, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for the County's waste/water treatment plants or wastewater lift stations.

• Facilitate/perform the implementation, coordination, supervision, and maintenance of the SCADA Network.
• Configure, document, and program automation and control systems.
• Control all aspects of in-house projects including design, programming, simulation, testing, and start-up.
• Perform general electrical work such as program VFDs, troubleshoot motor control panels, and pull wire occasionally.
• Perform preventative and corrective maintenance of instrumentation of waste/water treatment plants, lift stations, and related facilities.
• Perform necessary adjustments and calibrations of instrumentation using prepared chemical standards and portable electronic meters and related calibration equipment.
• Install new equipment and wires units according to electrical codes and schematics and diagrams provided; troubleshoot and repair all existing equipment.
• Use test equipment such as multimeters, digital voltmeters, digital calibrators, digital logic probes, oscilloscopes, SWR meters, TDR analyzers, frequency measuring meters, and other pertinent electrical and electronic measuring devices.
• Calibrate all existing electrical equipment instruments with the use of calibration equipment mentioned above.
• Service and repair hydraulic, pneumatic, hydro‑pneumatic, and electropneumatic instrument/control systems.
• Prepare necessary records and reports; prepare drawings, sketches and schematics.
• Install, repair, maintain, and configure the radio telemetry system for all Manatee County lift stations, booster stations, monitoring wells, and elevated tanks.
• Install, diagnose, and repair lift station control panels or RTU control panels as necessary when electricians need assistance.
• Install, maintain, diagnose, and repair field instrumentation used in control systems or for data acquisition in the telemetry system, including flow meters, pressure transmitters, level sensors, rain gauges, vibration sensors, inclinometers, proximity switches, turbidimeters, PH sensors, chlorine, and ammonia analyzers.
• Design new control systems and new data acquisition monitoring applications when necessary.
• Bench test radio equipment to determine if it needs repair.
• Provide training to new instrument technicians and train electricians and mechanics on any equipment.
• Perform other related duties as assigned, including participation in emergency or disaster response activities, as required.

• High school diploma or equivalent certificate of competency.
• Prior courses or technical training in electronics, instrumentation, and controls.
• Minimum of five (5) years' experience in repair, inspection, adjustment, and calibration of electronic controls and instrumentation.
• PLC & HMI programming, instrumentation, computer science, and industrial controls highly desired.
• Equivalent combinations of education, training, and experience may be considered.

• Knowledge of principles and practices of SCADA systems, including preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Knowledge of modern equipment and instrumentation for water and wastewater treatment plants and related facilities.
• Knowledge of PLC and SCADA programming with Rockwell (RSLogix 500, Panelview, Device Net), Citect, Siemens, and DFS.
• Knowledge of databases, ODBC, SQL, Microsoft Excel, and Windows OS.
• Knowledge of networking, switches, radios, wireless communication, fiber optics, and Ethernet.
• Knowledge of 4‑20 mA principles and HART communication.
• Knowledge of VFDs and soft‑start…