Senior Instrumentation Technician Water & Wastewater

RIGHT; Tralee; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Pension

Job summary

RIGHT Group in Kerry seeks a Senior Instrumentation Technician with hands-on water and wastewater instrumentation experience. You will calibrate, commission and fault-find process instruments on treatment plants across Kerry & Munster.

Knowledge of chlorine, turbidity, pH, DO, flow, level, and 4-20 mA signals is essential. This permanent, full-time role offers a competitive salary (€60,000–€70,000 DOE), a company vehicle and pension.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on instrumentation experience in water/wastewater
• Direct water or wastewater instrumentation experience
• Proven experience calibrating process instrumentation
• Hands-on experience with water/wastewater analysers
• Experience with chlorine, turbidity, pH, DO, flow, level, pressure and temperature instrumentation
• Strong understanding of 420 mA instrumentation
• Experience carrying out loop checks and commissioning
• Ability to read P&IDs and instrument schedules
• Experience fault-finding instrumentation connected to PLC/SCADA
• Full driving licence and Safe Pass

Responsibilities

• Install, calibrate, commission and fault-find process instrumentation on water/wastewater plants
• Configure instrument ranges, scaling and outputs
• Validate 4-20 mA and digital signals and perform loop checks
• Carry out instrument verification and proving
• Investigate inaccurate or unstable measurements and document results
• Produce calibration certificates and commissioning records
• Read and interpret P&IDs, loop drawings and instrument schedules
• Troubleshoot instrumentation connected to PLC/SCADA systems

Skills

Hands-on instrumentation experience

Water & wastewater experience

Calibration of process instrumentation

Fault-finding instrumentation

Reading P&IDs & loop drawings

PLC/SCADA familiarity

Driving licence

Safe Pass

Tools

Hach

Endress+Hauser

ABB

Siemens

VEGA

PLC/SCADA systems

Job description

Senior Instrumentation Technician Water & Wastewater Process Instrumentation | Chlorine | Turbidity | pH | DO | Flow | Level | Calibration | Commissioning Water & Wastewater | €60,000€70,000 DOE + Company Vehicle + Pension (39 hours per week) RIGHT. Group, Castleisland, Co. Kerry | Kerry & Munster | Permanent

Are you an Instrument Technician who knows water and wastewater instrumentation? We're looking for an experienced Water & Wastewater Instrumentation Technician who has hands‑on experience calibrating, commissioning and fault‑finding process instrumentation and analysers on water or wastewater treatment plants. This isn't a general electrical role. We're specifically looking for someone who understands the instruments that measure and control the water treatment process and who is confident taking an instrument from installation, through calibration and commissioning, to a fully proven and documented system. If your experience includes chlorine analysers, turbidity, pH, flow, level, pressure, temperature, dissolved oxygen and other process instrumentation, this could be the role for you.

What you'll actually be doing

You'll work directly on water and wastewater treatment infrastructure throughout Kerry and Munster, responsible for the installation, calibration, commissioning and fault‑finding of process instrumentation. Your work will include:

• Process Instrumentation
• Chlorine / residual chlorine analysers
• pH analysers
• Turbidity analysers
• Dissolved oxygen
• Conductivity
• Suspended solids
• Ammonia
• Flow measurement
• Level measurement
• Pressure
• Temperature

You’ll be expected to understand not just how to wire an instrument, but what the instrument is measuring, how it should be calibrated and how the measurement relates to the treatment process.

Calibration & Commissioning

• Carry out routine and commissioning calibration of process instruments.
• Configure instrument ranges, scaling and outputs.
• Validate 420 mA, digital and communication signals.
• Perform loop checks from field instrument through to PLC/SCADA.
• Carry out instrument verification and proving.
• Investigate inaccurate, unstable or failed measurements.
• Produce calibration certificates and commissioning records.
• Diagnose instrument faults and determine whether the problem is the instrument, installation, cabling, process or control system.

Flow & Level

• Electromagnetic flowmeters
• Ultrasonic level
• Radar level
• Hydrostatic/submersible level
• Pressure transmitters
• Open‑channel flow measurement

Analytical Instrumentation

This is a particularly important part of the role. We are looking for someone who has actually worked with process analysers, including their calibration, cleaning, verification and fault‑finding. Experience with manufacturers such as Hach, Endress+Hauser, ABB, Siemens, VEGA or similar would be advantageous.

This role is for you if...

You have spent several years working on:

• Water Treatment Plants
• Wastewater Treatment Plants
• Pumping Stations
• Process Plants

and you are comfortable walking onto a site and being responsible for the instrumentation. You don't need to be a PLC programmer. You do need to understand how a field instrument works, how to calibrate it, how to prove its signal and how to determine why the value on the SCADA screen doesn't match what's actually happening in the process.

What we're looking for;

• Essential 5+ years' hands‑on instrumentation experience
• Direct water or wastewater experience
• Proven experience calibrating process instrumentation
• Hands‑on experience with water/wastewater analysers
• Experience with chlorine, turbidity, pH, dissolved oxygen, flow, level, pressure and temperature instrumentation
• Strong understanding of 420 mA instrumentation
• Experience carrying out loop checks and commissioning
• Ability to read P&IDs, loop drawings and instrument schedules
• Experience fault‑finding instrumentation connected to PLC/SCADA systems
• Experience with VFDs would be advantageous
• Full driving licence
• Safe Pass

Particularly valuable experience

We're particularly interested in candidates who have worked with:

• Chlorine analysers
• Turbidity
• pH
• DO
• Conductivity
• Ammonia
• Flowmeters
• Radar/Ultrasonic Level
• Pressure Transmitters

Why join Right Group?

This isn't a maintenance position where you'll be servicing the same equipment every day. You'll work across a variety of water and wastewater projects, commissioning new equipment and working with experienced electrical, mechanical, process and automation engineers. You'll get exposure to: Instrumentation - Process - Electrical - PLC - SCADA - Automation- Commissioning. And as Right Group continues to grow, there is a genuine opportunity to progress into:

• Senior Instrument Technician
• Commissioning Lead
• Instrumentation/Automation Lead

Package €60,000€70,000+ depending on experience. Company vehicle. Pension. Permanent position. Full‑time employment. Training and manufacturer‑specific development. Long‑term project pipeline. Career progression. Work predominantly across Kerry & Munster.

We’re looking for the person who knows this stuff. If you've spent the last few years calibrating chlorine analysers, checking turbidity, calibrating pH, proving flowmeters, commissioning level instruments and fault‑finding instrumentation on water or wastewater plants, we want to talk to you.

If that's you, apply to Right Group.

Skills: Instrumentation Water Treatment Wastewater Treatment Calibration Process Analysers Commissioning Fault Finding TPBN1_IJ