I&C Technician

PTS Advance; Houston (TX); Presencial; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401K

Paid time off

Descripción de la vacante

PTS Advance is seeking a Controls and Instrumentation Technician for a permanent role in Houston, TX. This position maintains district energy plant instrumentation and control systems, focusing on Emerson DeltaV and Allen-Bradley PLCs.

You will calibrate instruments, repair systems, and support a robust energy network. Responsibilities include planning preventive maintenance, reviewing work orders, and generating KPI reports from DeltaV historian.

Formación

• Must have a 2-year technical degree in electrical, controls or instrumentation engineering or 2-year associates with 5 years of relevant industrial experience.
• Basic understanding of programming languages including plain English structured text, sequential function chart, function block diagram and ladder logic.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain instrumentation and controls for district energy plants producing steam and chilled water.
• Program and tune process control loops and DeltaV historian data for KPI reporting.
• Work with Emerson DeltaV and Allen-Bradley PLCs and other PLCs.
• Calibrate flowmeters, gauges, and controllers; troubleshoot and repair instruments.
• Plan and schedule corrective and preventive maintenance and review labor hours and parts.
• Reconcile work orders with contractor invoices; compile KPI reports.

Conocimientos

PLC programming basics

Instrumentation maintenance

DeltaV experience

Educación

Two-year technical degree in electrical controls or instrumentation

Associates degree in controls or instrumentation + 5 years experience

Herramientas

Emerson DeltaV

Allen-Bradley PLCs

PID controllers

Descripción del empleo

Controls and Instrumentation Technician

Client: Plant

Location: Houston, Tx

Duration: Permanent Position

Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, 401K, Paid Time Off

Schedule:Monday-Friday 8-4 or 9-5, working 40-50 hours a week depending on workload

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all instrumentation and controls and maintaining of systems for the district energy plants producing steam and chilled water and its energy transfer stations.
• Will be responsible for process control instrumentation maintenance and programming of the distributed control system and its peripherals.
• Will work extensively with Emerson DeltaV, Allen-Bradley PLCs and other types of logic controllers.
• Inspects, tests, adjusts, and repairs electric, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic instruments and systems used to indicate, record, and control.
• Inspects meters, indicators, and gauges to detect failures and process defects.
• Calibrate accuracy of flowmeters, pressure gauges, temperature indicators, controllers, and other recording, indicating, or controlling instruments to locate defective components in system, using test equipment, such as pressure gauges, mercury manometers, potentiometers, pulse and signal generators, ammeters, voltmeters, and power meters.
• Plan and schedule corrective and preventive maintenance work orders for all types of instruments.
• Will review work orders for completeness including auditing labor hours, parts and contract vendors.
• Will be responsible for reconciling work orders with contractor invoices.
• Will work with management to issue KPI reports from the process control Delta V historian.
• Program process control loops, tune control loops, be familiar with PID and 'cascade' control loops.
• Will work extensively with Emerson Delta V, Allen-Bradley PLC or other types of PID controllers.

Requirements:

• A minimum 2-year technical degree in electrical, controls or instrumentation engineering. In lieu of a bachelor's degree, a 2-year associates degree in controls or instrumentation and 5 years of experience in process controls and instrumentation in an industrial environment will be considered.
• Must be able to basic understanding of programming, troubleshoot and maintain all instruments and logic controllers which utilizes programming languages: plain English structured text, sequential function chart, function block diagram and ladder logic.