Instrumentation and Control Technician Overview

Instrumentation and control technicians work on measuring and controlling instrumentation. They also service plant process control, monitoring, safety and communications systems. They are knowledgeable in overall plant systems and interactions of processes.

Some of the duties of instrumentation and control technicians are:

consulting diagrams and technical documentation such as schematics, manuals, standards and codes;, maintaining backup and revision documentation for control systems and instrumentation;, installing, configuring, calibrating and maintaining control, measurement and indicati... Complete Description

Trade Skills

on the job practical skills

Services motion, speed, position and vibration measuring and indicating devices.
Services Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Services stand-alone controllers.
Services safety systems and security systems.
Services electrical and electronic equipment.
Services signal transmission systems.
Services distributed control systems (DCSs).
Maintains tools and equipment.
Services human machine interface (HMI).
Implements process control strategies.