Instrumentation Specialist

Overview & Responsibilities

Overview

To remove, repair, calibrate, adjust, modify, construct, install, service and maintain all mechanical, electrical and electronic instrumentation and controls used for engineering, production and testing purposes. Including: optical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, photographic, magnetic, electrical, electronic, sonic, strain gages and their lead wire systems, telemetry and slip ring data systems, computer related data acquisition systems, communications equipment and vibration systems.

Responsibilities

• Receives instructions from supervision.

• Calibrates instrumentation equipment and provide necessary written calibration data.

• Troubleshoots faulty equipment and performs necessary repairs by referring to complex wiring diagrams, drawings, specifications and books or manuals with minimum supervision.

• Performs necessary mechanical assembly and disassembly of any or all associated components of any instrument.

• Works with schematic drawings, prepares electronic and associated assemblies for instrumentation.

• Performs soldering, arc and spot welding and brazing as required.

• Performs routine maintenance on electronic and associated equipment including cleaning, lubricating, calibration and parts replacement.

• Helps maintain departmental files of wiring diagrams, instrumentation manuals, calibration records, charts, graphs and keeps maintenance records up to date, including instrument work order forms.

• Analyzes and diagnoses circuitry troubles and repairs, adjust, modifies and services all types of instrumentation devices including control and communication systems.

• Calibrates temperature, pressure and voltage traceable to the National Bureau of Standards.

• Designs and constructs experimental circuits, solid state and tube type.

• Calculates voltages, currents and resistances using Ohms Law.

• Repairs furnace and oven temperature controls throughout the plant.

• Under test conditions, operates related equipment to perform a complete functional check of all controls to determine operation and defects.

• Fabricates parts, instruments, and circuits as required using machines and small hand tools.

• Repairs and calibrates boiler controls in power houses.

• Operates Cushman for transporting test equipment.

• Reports defective material and new spare parts requirements to supervision.

• Reports identifying data and time spent on jobs as required.

• Maintains good housekeeping in working area and protects equipment used for analytical work at all times.

• Observes all safety regulations.

• Must complete ICS correspondence course as required.

• Utilize appropriate material handling equipment (i.e. fork truck, crane, etc.) as required.

• Utilizes man-lifts as required.

Qualifications:

• Must be able and willing to work all shifts.

• Must be able and willing to work overtime, weekends, and holidays.

• Shifts are not guaranteed.

• Prior experience in a manufacturing environment strongly preferred and divisional and job specific testing required.

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