Instrument & Control Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

Provide maintenance support to troubleshoot, calibrate, and maintain all instrumentation associated with the boiler, turbine, generator, and all auxiliary equipment for the plant. May perform Master I &C Technician duties during absence of a Master I&C technician.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Recognizes safety hazards and follows safety guidelines for personal protection, protection of fellow workers and the protection of the public.
• Knowledgeable of environmental rules & regulations and effectively apply them to all work situations.
• Install, calibrate, test, troubleshoot, and maintain protective relays, computers, metering, monitoring, and control systems on boilers, turbines, generators, and plant auxiliary equipment. In shop location includes benchwork and component troubleshooting.
• Reads, and interprets electric generating plants P&ID’s and CWD’s to locate, identify, troubleshoot, and repair plant systems, interlocks, etc.
• Use test equipment (oscilloscopes, multi-meters electronic bridges, loop calibrators) and hand tools (i.e., drills, screwdrivers) as necessary to troubleshoot and maintain devices and systems for the power plant.
• Works with apprentice I / C technicians and skill enhancement employees to teach proper, safe use of tools and maintenance procedures.
• Completes all written and electronic records (i.e., work orders, calibration sheets, timecards, material requests) required to document the work in progress and as its completion.
• Continually updates knowledge of plant systems and instrumentation.
• Make decisions about how best to repair equipment and what resources (tools, time equipment) will be needed.
• Employee must arrange own transportation to work location and may be reassigned to another location at the Company’s discretion.

Minimum Job Requirements

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Working Conditions and Physical Effort