Electrical Instrumentation Technician

San Juan Water District, located in Granite Bay, California, is a community services district created by a vote of the citizens in 1954. The District provides wholesale water to more than 160,000 people and retail to 30,000 people living in eastern Sacramento and southern Placer Counties. The District wholesales water to Citrus Heights, Fair Oaks and San Juan (retail) Water Districts, Orange Vale Water Company and the City of Folsom with surplus treatment capacity available to Sacramento Suburban Water District.

The District provides treatment and delivery of more than 50,000 acre-feet of water per year to wholesale and retail customers.

The District receives water directly from Folsom Reservoir through U.S. Bureau of Reclamation facilities at Folsom Dam. Water is treated at the Sidney N. Peterson Water Treatment Plant, which is rated up to 150 MGD. The District’s Retail Service Area has approximately 205 miles of pipeline, eight pressure zones, nine pump stations, and three storage facilities. The District’s Wholesale conveyance system is gravity fed with meter stations at all turnouts to our Wholesale Customers.

With rich history dating back to the Gold Rush era, the District has served the community for more than 150 years. The District’s highest priority is to provide reliable, high-quality water to its customers – every day, year in and year out. The District is significantly involved in reshaping California’s water dialogue.

THE POSITION

The Instrumentation Technician is part of the Operations team, performing specialized and technical duties associated with the troubleshooting, maintenance, installation and repair of electrical gear, breakers, electronic equipment, and instrumentation controls associated with surface water treatment plant, pump stations, distributions system facilities, wholesale meters, and medium voltage solar site component.

Duties Include:

• Performing corrective and preventative maintenance on electrical switch gear, breakers, transformers, process control systems, flowmeters, transmitters, gauges and other instrumentation and control equipment.
• Performing skilled duties related to the troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, installation, and testing of
• instrumentation, Programmable Logic Controller’s (PLC’s), telemetry, electrical and electronic components and instruments used in treatment plants, distribution systems and solar fields.
• Recognizing, identifying and correcting problems with control and instrumentation equipment.
• Planning, installing and maintaining sophisticated electrical, instrumentation, and control systems; developing and using diagnostic problem solving techniques.
• Inspecting, adjusting, installing, calibrating, and repairing electrical and electronic equipment such as Variable Frequency Drives (VFD’s), breakers, transformers, motors, transducers, motor control centers, switches, wiring, electronic circuits, meter transmitters, (Cl2) sensors, and related devices.
• Installing, maintaining, calibrating, and troubleshooting control systems and water quality instruments, analyzers and electrical systems as they relate to water treatment, distribution, and solar systems.
• Working collaboratively with engineering to maintain and modify drawings of District’s Electrical Systems, PLC’s and SCADA systems.
• Assisting in new project design, inspection, installation, and troubleshooting of electrical Systems, including but not limited to, submittals, RFIs, change orders, site layout and planning of specific drawings.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

To be considered, candidates should be knowledgeable of principles and practices of electrical theory and electrical circuits, practices and techniques used in the design, installation, testing, calibration, maintenance and repair of radio telemetry, cellular communication, 4160V solar field, electrical and electronic equipment, instrumentation and controls as they relate to water treatment and distribution systems.

The qualifications include:

• Graduation from high school or equivalent with additional supplementary course work in electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control systems, or equivalent material pertaining to the field of…