SCADA Technician

Description

Under general supervision, the SCADA Technician performs a variety of technical tasks in support of the SCADA system to include calibrating equipment, performing overall maintenance and correcting problems with equipment; providing technical support; serving as first responder to outages and equipment failures; coordinating work; and documenting work activities.

Posted pay range is the starting salary. Pay rate offered is based on experience.

Examples of Duties

• Troubleshoot SCADA field equipment demonstrating knowledge on how to operate HMIs and using database historians to identify faults.
• Repairs and maintains SCADA by diagnosing problems using schematic drawings, monitoring software, and digital test equipment; repairs, replaces and reprograms by diagnosis; performs routine maintenance on SCADA system components; performs visual and machine aided inspections, installs and inspects weatherization.
• Builds SCADA by assembling parts to form a working product; tests assembly prior to deployment; deploys, assembles, and integrates field and human machine interface.
• Maintains UPS equipment by diagnosing software to measure uninterruptable power supply capacity; replaces batteries if capacity is low; replaces UPS if unit fails.
• Calibrates instruments by using test equipment; performs periodic calibrations to verify monitoring instruments are within limits; directs others to perform calibrations.

Experience and Training

• Associate degree, diploma, or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school. Additional work experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.
• At least one (1) year of experience as a SCADA technician or in a similar position.
• Must have experience in process meters for generating analog signals and troubleshooting low voltage digital signals.

Certificates and Licenses Required

• Valid Class C driver's license.

• Obtain Wastewater Operator C License from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality within two (2) years of employment.

• Required to obtain a Wastewater Operator D License within 6 months after hire.