Instrumentation Technician
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Job Location:
New Hartford, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Instrumentation Technician
Preferred qualifications/experience
- Associates Degree in Applied Sciences preferable
- Electrical Engineering Technology
- Electrical Engineering Science
- 5 years equivalent experience in related field.
- Industrial vacuum application
- Controls / PLC experience
- Process instrumentation experience
Responsibilities
- Calibrate all equipment under the responsibility of the Instrument Department.
- Interpret and analyze abnormalities in various instruments.
- Aid Maintenance in location problems such as: troubleshooting complex electrical systems motor drives hydraulic controls rectifiers power supplies and water-cooling systems. The Instrument Technicians expertise in these areas is important to ensure that equipment downtime is minimized.
- Perform temperature surveys on heat treat ovens. This involves working with Maintenance and Production to prepare the oven execute the survey and recording the temperature data per SMC procedures.
- Install new or modify existing instrumentation and equipment as directed by the Instrument Supervisor Facilities Engineers and/or under the guidance of the Instrument Specialist.
- Layout and construct electronic circuits working from schematics and if necessary make modifications to enable the circuit to function properly.
- Maintenance and operation knowledge of computers and programmable logic controllers.
- Answer questions and/or instruct personnel on the use and operation of new instruments and control equipment.
- Interpret recording devices and meter indications for an operator or foreman to assist in the decision related to equipment problems.
- Provide overall technical and service support to all SMC production processing or research equipment as directed by the Instrumentation Supervisor Engineering and/or under the guidance of the Instrument Specialist.
- Maintain the daily log to document instrumentation work and to insure continuity of work between the shifts.
- Maintain a safe working area promote and implement good housekeeping practices.
- In addition to these duties the Instruments Specialists shall have the following accountabilities:
- Perform periodic calibration of secondary standards traceable to NIST and record calibrations per SMC procedures.
- Design modifications to improve existing equipment and provide updated documentation to Engineering
- Maintenance understanding of new equipment and technology as it is applied in the plant. This includes equipment such as computes machine controls and instruments.
- Develop and write software for programmable logic controllers as directed by Engineering.
- Install new equipment as directed by the Instrumentation Supervisor or Engineering.
- Oversee the Instrument Department when the Instrument Supervisor is not present. This includes planning and scheduling work for the Instrument Technicians.
Desired Skills
- Experience with PLC primary GE and Rockwell software.
- Ability to read and interoperate electrical mechanical and hydraulic prints and schematics.
- Experience with various electronic test equipment such as multimeters oscilloscopes and voltage/current sourcing equipment.
- Knowledge of DC drives and Variable frequency drives.
- Ability to manage own workload with minimal oversight.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Controlling Experience
- E & I
- Distributed Control Systems
- Calibration
- NEC
- Tube Bending
- Spectrophotometer
- Sterile Processing
- Schematics
- Maintenance
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Troubleshooting
