Instrument and Electrical Technician

About Lanza Tech

At Lanza Tech, we’re turning waste carbon into new beginnings.

Using our proprietary bio-fermentation technology, we transform industrial emissions, carbon dioxide, and gasified waste into ethanol—a building block for a wide range of sustainable products, including Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and other critical chemical derivatives.

With six commercial facilities already in operation and more on the way, we’re scaling fast to meet the world’s growing demand for fuels and materials. Our technology helps industrial sectors by unlocking value from emissions that would otherwise go to waste.

Together with our partners, we’re building a circular carbon economy—where carbon is continuously reused, not released.

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact on the future of industrial sustainability, we’d love to hear from you.

This role is based at the company’s Skokie Headquarters / R&D Center. The Instrumentation & Electrical Technician is responsible for hands‑on maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, repair, and installation of process instrumentation and low‑voltage electrical equipment supporting laboratory, pilot plant, facilities, and process development operations.

Reporting to the Facilities team, this position helps keep instruments, electrical components, alarms, shutdown devices, and supporting equipment safe, accurate, available, and reliable through preventive and corrective maintenance.

The successful candidate will be a practical, hands‑on technician who works well with engineers, researchers, operations personnel, other maintenance resources, and EHS professionals in a changing R&D and light‑industrial environment.

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on pressure, temperature, flow, level, analytical, and other process instruments used in laboratories, pilot plants, and facilities.

• Calibrate, inspect, function-test, troubleshoot, repair, and replace transmitters, sensors, switches, control valves, actuators, solenoids, and associated field devices.

• Troubleshoot instrument loops, signal wiring, junction boxes, power supplies, relays, contractors, heater controls, motor controls, VFDs, and other low‑voltage electrical equipment.

• Maintain and test gas detection, alarm, interlock, and emergency shutdown hardware in accordance with established procedures.

• Build, wire, label, inspect, and modify control panels and field wiring using approved drawings, specifications, and safe work practices.

• Install and maintain pneumatic tubing, regulators, valves, fittings, and small‑bore gas‑handling components, including Swagelok® or similar systems.

• Respond to equipment problems, identify failed components, make safe repairs, and return equipment to service with minimal disruption.

• Use work orders and maintenance schedules to plan and document preventive maintenance, calibration, repairs, parts used, and follow‑up work.

• Maintain spare parts, tools, calibration standards, drawings, manuals, and equipment records in an orderly and usable condition.

• Support equipment installation, checkout, and minor modifications under the direction of engineering or operations; provide practical feedback on maintainability and reliability.

• Coordinate with vendors and contractors for specialized service and verify that completed work meets site safety and technical requirements.

• Follow electrical safety, lockout/tagout, PPE, and other site procedures, and participate in MOC, PHA, and incident investigations as requested.

• High school diploma or equivalent plus relevant trade, military, apprenticeship, or industrial maintenance training. An associate degree or technical certificate in instrumentation, electrical technology, electronics,…