About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Instrumentation Engineer to join our Mechanical Services Shops team, which focuses on the repair of rotating and static equipment as well as component fabrication. The successful candidate will oversee the accuracy, reliability, availability, and lifecycle integrity of instrumentation across industrial machinery and facility systems. This role involves instrument engineering, calibration, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, commissioning, and the continuous improvement of instrumentation and control systems.
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Key Responsibilities
- Instrumentation Engineering: Specify, evaluate, and maintain various instruments including pressure, temperature, flow, level, vibration, speed, position, force, torque, gas, and analytical instruments.
- Calibration and Metrology: Develop calibration plans, establish tolerances and intervals, maintain traceability, document calibration results, and assess out-of-tolerance conditions.
- Troubleshooting and Maintenance: Diagnose faults involving sensors, transmitters, wiring, grounding, signal conditioning, I/O systems, instrument loops, networks, alarms, and protection systems.
- Controls and Commissioning: Prepare instrument datasheets, loop diagrams, hook-ups, cause-and-effect documentation, calibration procedures, FAT/SAT plans, loop checks, and commissioning records.
- Asset and Change Management: Maintain instrument registers, critical spares, configuration backups, calibration history, obsolescence plans, bypass controls, Management of Change (MOC) records and contractor quality documentation.
- Reliability Improvement: Develop preventive-maintenance strategies, investigate recurring failures, implement corrective actions, and ensure compliance with applicable engineering and safety standards.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation, Control Systems, Electrical, Electronics, Automation, or Mechatronics Engineering from a recognized and approved program.
- Minimum 12 years of industrial instrumentation experience, including at least 7 years maintaining and commissioning instrumentation for manufacturing equipment and facility systems.
- Strong knowledge of industrial sensors, transmitters, analyzers, vibration and speed probes, control valves, data acquisition, signal standards, grounding, and calibration.
- Hands-on experience with PLC/DCS I/O, HART or fieldbus devices, loop checking, alarm and trip systems, instrument networks, and OEM machine interfaces.
- Proven ability to develop calibration and preventive-maintenance plans, troubleshoot recurring failures, and manage instrument configurations.
Preferred Qualifications
- ISA CCST or CAP certification.
- Vendor-specific DCS/PLC training.
- Vibration instrumentation training.
- ISO/IEC 17025 metrology training.
