Industrial Instrumentation & Controls Technician

Insight Global; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Facilities Instrumentation and Controls Technician to maintain, calibrate, troubleshoot, and optimize instrumentation, automation, and control systems across facility utilities and operations.

You will support construction, commissioning, and operations, ensuring sensors, transmitters, PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA systems meet safety, performance, and reliability standards in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of instrumentation, controls, or automation maintenance in industrial environments.
• Strong knowledge of SCADA platforms, sensors, transmitters, control valves, PLCs, HMIs, and industrial networks.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, control wiring diagrams, loop sheets, and automation documentation.
• Experience with calibration equipment and maintenance of I&C devices.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine calibration, testing, and verification of instrumentation including pressure, temperature, humidity, flow, and level sensors.
• Maintain and repair transmitters, actuators, control valves, positioners, and analytical instruments.
• Ensure accuracy and documentation of all instrument calibration activities following established standards.
• Diagnose and repair issues in PLC-based systems, HMIs, VFDs, and distributed control architectures.
• Troubleshoot failures in control loops, interlocks, communication networks, and automation hardware.
• Assist in implementing logic updates, parameter adjustments, and functional testing of control sequences.
• Support communication protocols such as Modbus, Ethernet/IP, Profibus, or equivalent industrial networks.
• Maintain and support SCADA platforms to ensure accurate real-time system data.
• Respond to alarms and control system events, ensuring timely corrective action.
• Assist with startup, commissioning, and functional testing of new instrumentation and control systems.
• Verify device scaling, signal integrity, loop direction, control logic, and alarm configuration.
• Coordinate with engineering, contractors, and vendors during commissioning and system upgrades.
• Maintain accurate device records, calibration logs, wiring diagrams, loop sheets, and control configurations using CMMS tools.
• Support facility operations by ensuring control systems operate consistently and reliably.
• Provide technical support during shutdowns, system transitions, process troubleshooting, and equipment upgrades.

Skills

Instrumentation & Controls

SCADA systems

P&IDs interpretation

Calibration equipment

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Facilities Instrumentation and Controls Technician to maintain, calibrate, troubleshoot, and optimize instrumentation, automation, and control systems across facility utilities and operations.

You will support construction, commissioning, and operations, ensuring sensors, transmitters, PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA systems meet safety, performance, and reliability standards in a manufacturing environment.