O&M Technician; Instrumentation & Electrical - San Marcos, CA

At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

At Jacobs, we challenge what’s currently accepted so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. Through the delivery of our operations and maintenance services, you’ll make it simpler and more seamless for our municipal clients to operate safely and efficiently, empowering communities to focus on what matters most to them – people.

Jacobs is seeking to hire a full‑time, O&M Technician – Instrumentation & Electrical
, based in San Marcos, CA
, for a large water‑treatment facility. This position performs the inspection, maintenance, modification, and repair of electrical systems and equipment control circuits including electrical, electronic, pneumatic systems, and signal devices.

The facility we operate is a T5‑rated 100‑mgd potable water treatment plant that uses submerged membrane filtration, ozone disinfection, advanced oxidation, and biological activated carbon to meet strict water quality standards for the San Diego metropolitan area. At its completion in April 2008, it was, and continues to be, one of the largest water‑treatment plants using membrane filtration in the world.

Bring your team‑focus, adaptability, and commitment to excellence, and we’ll help you grow what drives you – and deliver the world’s most challenging Operations Management projects, together.

• Performs a variety of skilled, technical duties in the development, installation, modification and maintenance process control and supervisory control systems. Schedules and coordinates activities with other staff; ensures the timely and accurate completion of preventative maintenance activities; performs project management on special projects and keeps information updated.
• Tests, troubleshoots, calibrates, programs and performs preventative maintenance on a variety of complex electrical and electronic instruments and devices, including soft‑start/hard‑start motor controls and variable frequency drives, networking equipment, and instrumentation systems, components and devices associated with the operation of a large, state‑of‑the‑art potable water treatment plant.
• Installs, maintains, repairs and calibrates a wide variety of electronic recording and indicating instruments such as differential pressure flow meters, sonic flow meters, pressure and temperature recorders, signal conversion modules, level sensing devices and valve actuator controllers.
• Repairs and replaces defective electrical and electronic parts in motors, controllers, conductors, switches and other industrial electrical devices or equipment; makes additions, extensions and modifications in electrical systems; installs, maintains and repairs electromechanical, electronic and electrical components.
• Installs conduits, conductors, wires, pull boxes, switchboards, controllers and switches required in making additions, extensions or alterations in electrical systems; installs motors, controls, transformers and generators.
• Installs, troubleshoots, updates and repairs equipment for fiber‑optic communication systems, IP‑based networked camera systems and office telephone extension wiring, devices and termination equipment.
• Disconnects electrical sources, approves lockout/tagout procedures to block electrical sources; reconnects and operates equipment for maintenance purposes.
• Interprets and works from blueprints, drawings, sketches, plans and technical documents.
• Maintains the record keeping associated with all electrical repairs and modifications.
• Recommends control system modifications with documented justification that will result in standard utilization of parts and materials and will reduce operating and repair costs.
• Establishes and enforces uniform electrical repair safety procedures at plant site.
• Makes modifications to as‑built electrical drawings based on system modifications and updates all…