Industrial Instrument/Electrical Technician I - Emerald Coast Utilities Authority : Job Details

JOB SUMMARY: H112

This is an entry-level job in the IE Tech classification series. Work is performed as a trainee and under close supervision and according to standardized instructions and procedures. Assists higher classified technicians in performing electrical and instrumentation maintenance activities and projects. Assists in the fabrication, installation, inspection, testing, adjustment and repair of electronic, electro-mechanical, and pneumatic control circuits and systems. These systems are used to record, indicate, and control the operation of various machines, including process measurement and control instrumentation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Assists and learns how to fabricate, install, check, and repair electrical equipment and instrumentation systems, such as general power circuits (single and 3-phase at voltages from 120 to 13,600v), pump controls and circuitry, flow pressure and weight measuring systems, monitoring and control instrumentation including programmable logic controllers (PLC) and radio-transmitted supervisory control, and data acquisition systems (SCADA).

Helps Install, maintain, and repair industrial and electrical control systems, power distribution systems, and high and low voltage switching systems and equipment.

Helps install, maintain, and repair electric motors (AC and DC), motor control devices, variable frequency drives (VFD), DC drives, and magnetic drives.

Responds to emergency and trouble calls, locates and identifies the cause and performs corrective actions as required.

All other duties as assigned.

Three years education, training, and or experience such as: completion of vocational/technical school courses in instrumentation or electronics; or a registered apprenticeship in instrumentation, measurement and control, electronics, electrical, and/or mechanical systems; and/or progressively responsible experience in the fabrication, installation, and repair of electronic instruments and electrical control systems used in an industrial facility. (Educational documentation will be requested upon offer of employment.)

Any combination of education, training, and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Intermediate level of Windows and computer knowledge and skill.

Required to work days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays and weather events as scheduled or needed in accordance with departmental policies.

Licenses and Certifications:

Possession of a valid Driver License.

Employment offers to all new hires are contingent upon the job candidates successfully passing background, motor vehicle and reference checks, drug screening, and post job offer physicals (that may include pulmonary testing). All applicants are subject to physical assessments as required by job.

While performing the essential functions of this job the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

While performing the essential functions of this job the employee is frequently exposed to unpleasant and hazardous working conditions, such as weather conditions, moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, electrical shock, or vibration.

Working conditions are typically loud for limited durations while working with power tools, equipment, or machinery following all prescribed safety rules and regulations.

As a disaster team member, the employee is required to be available to work before, during, and after any disaster as directed. MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT USED:

Various hand and power tools

Electronic/Electrical test equipment

Instrument test and calibration equipment

Pneumatic test and calibration equipment

Light truck or other motor vehicle

Computer and peripheral equipment

Personal protective equipment