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 human machine interface (HMI).
Services positioners.
Services valves.
Services Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Services safety systems and security systems.
Services signal transmission systems.
Services pressure, temperature, level and flow measuring and indicating devices.
Services analyzers.
Services actuators.
Services programmable logic controllers (PLCs).