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 stand-alone controllers.
Organizes work.
Services pressure, temperature, level and flow measuring and indicating devices.
Services programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
Services signal transmission systems.
Services human machine interface (HMI).
Services positioners.
Services mass, density and consistency measuring and indicating devices.
Services signal converters.
Services hydraulic equipment.