Electrical / Instrumentation Technician III

DeKalb County; Decatur, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 36,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

DeKalb County is seeking a lead technician to install, program, maintain, calibrate, and repair electronic instruments and SCADA systems across water and wastewater facilities in the County.

The role requires advanced electronics knowledge, leadership to guide technicians, and experience with telemetry, instrumentation, and control systems. This position is safety sensitive and may involve field work and driver’s license requirements.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in Electronics or related field.
• Five years of experience in maintenance and repair of analog and digital industrial control equipment.
• Vocational training and seven years of experience; or equivalent combination.

Responsibilities

• Lead technicians, provide guidance and training.
• Test processes and controls; recommend SCADA improvements.
• Design and implement new controls; integrate with existing systems.
• Program, install, repair telemetry systems and interfaces.
• Calibrate and troubleshoot instrumentation (pH, conductivity, etc.).
• Install and maintain control devices and instrument loops.
• Perform PLC changes and upgrades; automation tasks.
• Research design of new control systems and automation.
• Perform manual labor tasks related to maintenance.

Skills

Leadership

Troubleshooting

SCADA knowledge

Instrumentation

Education

Associate degree in Electronics

Vocational training

Job description

Salary Range: $26.06 - $41.96/Hour Salary Grade: 18 FLSA: Nonexempt

Purpose of Classification:

The purpose of this classification is to perform highly skilled work as a lead technician in the installation, programming, maintenance, calibration, and repair of all electronic instruments, automatic process control and protective relaying equipment, and energy management systems in Water, Wastewater Treatment Plant and/or Distribution System/Collection System Remote facilities.

This classification is safety sensitive, subject to random drug testing in accordance with the County’s Drug & Alcohol Policy.

Essential Functions:

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

Provides guidance, training and technical assistance to less experienced technicians, maintenance personnel, and contractors; provides leadership on maintenance projects requiring multiple technicians to complete.

Conducts tests on various processes and controls using specialized test equipment and recommends improvements and modifications to the Supervisory Control Data Acquisition (SCADA) system and related components.

Designs, builds, and implements new controls, interfaces, and testing equipment and integrates them into existing controls.

Programs, installs, repairs, and expands telemetry system; and integrates system with other hardware and software systems.

Calibrates, tunes, troubleshoots, repairs, installs, and integrates various flow and measuring equipment and microprocessor based instrumentation system components which monitor parameters such as pH, conductivity, temperature, turbidity, chlorine, dissolved oxygen, flow rate, level, and water/air pressure.

Performs electronic equipment setup, programming, calibrating, and troubleshooting of components such as variable frequency drives, control valves, pump controls, alarm systems, and level monitoring systems.

Installs, maintains, and analyzes malfunctions of computerized control devices, controls and instrument loops, instruments for activated sludge systems, water treatment and the SCADA system; and makes needed repairs.

Performs programming changes and upgrades, calibration, and logic troubleshooting of programmable logic controllers.

Researches and assists with the design of new control systems; and automates old systems.

Performs manual labor tasks associated with maintenance and repair of the systems; installs equipment and components, pulls wires, removes and replaces parts, prepares the work site; and cleans up after work is completed.

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate degree in Electronics or related field; five years of experience in the maintenance and repair of analog and digital industrial control equipment, industrial electronics and test equipment; vocational training and seven years of experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Specific License or Certification Required: Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver’s license.