Summary
Per Sé Group has an excellent opportunity for an entry level Instrument Technician. This is a long-term contract at our client’s oil & gas refinery in Illinois. This refinery has a total crude oil capacity of 177,000 barrels per day and manufactures several grades of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and high-quality hydrocarbon solvents. You will be working with an outstanding team committed to safety and environmental stewardship.
Responsibilities

• Install, test, calibrate, troubleshoot, and repair field instruments including meters, transmitters, transducers, controllers, switches, solenoids, relays, control valves, regulators, actuators, positioners, and instrument loops.
• Service both electronic and pneumatic field instruments.
• Troubleshoot and repair Distributed Control Systems (DCS), PLCs, vibration monitoring systems, and other specialty instruments.
• Perform maintenance per established written procedures. Uses drawings, equipment manuals, procedures, and proper tools to troubleshoot and repair equipment.
• Document work performed in test forms and condition reports.
• Mark up drawings for as-built revision by drafting based upon field inspection.
• Read schematics and logic diagrams.
• Upload and download field instrumentation data.
• Read loop diagrams, logic diagrams, and P&IDs.
• Stroke valves and calibrate instrumentation per specifications.
• Review and re-writes procedures for instrumentation work.
• Perform online SIS testing on live process equipment.

Desired skills and expertise

• 1 years of experience working as an Instrument Technician at a refinery (maintenance and/or projects work) or another heavy industrial setting.
• Two-year degree/certificate from an Instrumentation training program/technical school preferred.
• Experience reading loop diagrams, logic diagrams, and P&IDs.
• Experience with stroke valves and calibrating instrumentation.
• Programmable logic control experience.