Industrial Instrumentation Technician – 24/7 Plant

Jobot; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

401k Match

On-site Fitness

Boot Allowance

Annual Bonuses

Job summary

Jobot is seeking an instrumentation professional for a leading chemical manufacturer just south of Boston, MA. The role installs, maintains, and repairs process instrumentation in a 24/7 industrial plant, ensuring compliance with electrical codes and coordinating with Engineering, Maintenance, Refinery, and the Boiler Room to keep operations running.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of instrumentation experience, hands-on valve, transmitter, and PLC troubleshooting skills, plus proficiency with

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of related work experience for Level 3 and Level 4 consideration.
• Hands-on experience with control valves, actuators, positioners, switches, and transmitters.
• PLC troubleshooting on Allen Bradley, Honeywell, ABB, Siemens, or comparable platforms.
• Reading blueprints, wiring diagrams, and logic diagrams.
• Microsoft Office and Excel, SAP or similar ERP, and a CMMS such as E-Maintenance.
• Availability to support the annual plant shutdown.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive maintenance on process instrumentation and related equipment.
• Trace and verify process lines to ensure systems are safe before work begins (LOTO).
• Inspect and test control valves, RTDs, thermocouples, flow meters, differential pressure devices, switches, and transmitters.
• Troubleshoot, repair, and PM control valves, positioners, and pneumatic and electric actuators.
• Troubleshoot Honeywell TDC systems and, with additional training, repair them.
• Support commissioning and startup of new and modified instrumentation.
• Use blueprints, wiring diagrams, and manufacturer manuals to complete projects.
• Estimate materials and interface with vendors to order parts and instruments.
• Use E-Maintenance software to manage work orders.
• Create and update logic and electrical diagrams, instrument spec sheets, and calibration records.

Skills

Instrumentation

Controls experience

PLC troubleshooting

Blueprints reading

Tools

E-Maintenance

Allen Bradley PLC

Honeywell PLC

SAP

CMMS

Job description

Jobot is seeking an instrumentation professional for a leading chemical manufacturer just south of Boston, MA. The role installs, maintains, and repairs process instrumentation in a 24/7 industrial plant, ensuring compliance with electrical codes and coordinating with Engineering, Maintenance, Refinery, and the Boiler Room to keep operations running.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of instrumentation experience, hands-on valve, transmitter, and PLC troubleshooting skills, plus proficiency with