Instrumentation Technicians inspect, test, and repair electric, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic instruments and systems used to indicate, record, and control operations in a refinery.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Installs, tests, calibrates, troubleshoots, and repairs field instruments, including meters, transmitters, transducers, controllers, switches, solenoids, relays, control valves, regulators, actuators, positioners, and instrument loops.
- Services both electronic and pneumatic field instruments.
- Troubleshot and repaired Distributed Control Systems (DCS), PLCs, vibration monitoring systems, and other specialty instruments.
- Performs maintenance per established written procedures. Uses drawings, equipment manuals, procedures, and proper tools to troubleshoot and repair equipment.
- Documents work performed in test forms and condition reports.
- Marks up drawings for as-built revision by drafting based upon field inspection.
- Reads schematics and logic diagrams.
- Uploads and downloads field instrumentation data.
- Reads loop diagrams, logic diagrams, and P&IDs.
- Stroke valves and calibrate instrumentation per specifications.
- Programmable logic control experience.
- Reviews and rewrites procedures for instrumentation work.
- Performs online SIS testing on live process equipment.