Instrumentation & Control Technician

Job Summary:

The Industrial Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Technician installs, maintains, calibrates, commissions, and troubleshoots instrumentation, control systems, and associated electrical and electronic equipment at heavy industrial customer facilities. This is a journeymen-level field role requiring the ability to work independently, interpret technical documentation, diagnose complex process-control problems, and complete work safely and professionally in active operating environments. The technician may support new construction, maintenance, shutdowns, turnarounds, system upgrades, commissioning, and emergency troubleshooting assignments.

• Install, inspect, maintain, repair, calibrate, and troubleshoot instruments that measure and control process variables, including pressure, flow, level, temperature, analytical properties, vibration, speed, position, motion, force, and other operating conditions.
• Install and service transmitters, switches, transducers, sensors, analyzers, gauges, control valves, actuators, positioners, solenoids, limit switches, junction boxes, marshalling panels, remote I/O, control panels, instrument tubing, and associated cabling and terminations.
• Read and interpret P&IDs, instrument loop diagrams, hook-up drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, control narratives, cause-and-effect documents, logic diagrams, ladder logic, I/O lists, equipment data sheets, vendor manuals, and installation specifications.
• Configure, range, test, and calibrate smart and conventional field instruments using handheld communicators, vendor software, and appropriate precision test equipment.
• Perform point-to-point checks, continuity checks, loop checks, functional testing, alarm and trip verification, control-valve stroking, interlock testing, and commissioning or startup support.
• Troubleshoot complete control loops and identify faults in field devices, wiring, power supplies, PLC/DCS I/O, control panels, communication networks, software configuration, and final control elements.
• Use multimeters, process calibrators, milliamp sources, pressure pumps, manometers, dead weight testers, temperature simulators, insulation testers, tachometers, HART communicators, and other diagnostic or precision instruments.
• Support PLC, DCS, HMI, SCADA, historian, remote I/O, and industrial communication systems within the technician's training and authorization; coordinate programming or configuration changes with controls engineers or authorized programmers.
• Disassemble malfunctioning instruments, evaluate mechanical and electronic components, repair or replace defective parts, reassemble equipment, and verify conformance with manufacturer and project specifications.
• Perform preventive and predictive maintenance; identify developing equipment issues and recommend corrective actions or reliability improvements.
• Maintain accurate calibration records, inspection reports, test documentation, redlines, as-built markups, material usage, daily work records, deficiency lists, and turnover packages.
• Assist with job planning by reviewing scope, identifying required tools and materials, evaluating access or operational constraints, and communicating potential safety, quality, cost, or schedule concerns.
• Coordinate effectively with customer representatives, operators, maintenance personnel, engineers, programmers, electricians, project managers, superintendents, vendors, and other crafts.
• Provides clear turnover information and communicates equipment status, unresolved deficiencies, testing results, and operational limitations before placing systems into service.
• Maintains tools, test equipment, work areas, and company vehicles in a safe, organized, and serviceable condition.
• Produces legible, complete, and well-organized calibration records, test reports, redlines, deficiency lists, and daily work records.
• Works effectively across different customers, industries, control platforms, project phases, schedules, and site conditions.
• Represents the company professionally, protects customer operations, and communicates issues before they create safety, quality, schedule, or production impacts.
• Perform other duties consistent with the position and within the employee's training, qualifications, and authorization.

• Performs all work in accordance with company procedures, customer requirements, approved work packages, manufacturer instructions, applicable codes and standards, and recognized industry practices.
• Comply with lockout/tagout, energized electrical work, arc-flash, fall protection, confined-space, hot-work, line-breaking, respiratory-protection, hazardous-material, and other site-specific safety requirements.
• Work on or near energized equipment only when authorized, properly trained, qualified, and equipped with the required personal protective equipment and approved work controls.
• Understand and apply applicable requirements of the National Electrical Code (NEC), NFPA 70E, OSHA…