Electrical/Instrumentation Technician

About the role

The purpose of this classification is to perform skilled installation, maintenance, and repair of instrumentation and control systems at Consolidated Government water utility plants and facilities. Resolves technical problems; installs, repairs, programs, maintains electrical and process control instrumentation and automated devices for all water production facilities within the guidelines of department policies and regulations and supervisory instructions. Reports to Electrical/Instrumentation Supervisor and may supervise personnel as assigned. Trains water production employees concerning technical issues. Works with water production co-workers to provide support. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Provides routine and complex maintenance. Repair services to electrical, electronic, and pneumatic equipment and systems at water utility treatment plants and operating facilities. Conducts inspections, tests, adjusts, calibrates, and services equipment and systems. Ensures proper operation of equipment and systems while identifying and correcting equipment and system errors and failures. Locates, repairs, or replaces defective circuits, modules, digital interfaces, and other electronic parts. Ensures equipment and systems conform with plans and specifications. Prepares new or modifies existing, operating and maintenance procedures as needed. Participates in operational integrity and safety tests, functional tests, acceptance tests, etc.: verifies proper operation of safety monitoring detection and alarm systems; identifies and corrects system failures; and maintains logs of test results. Receives and reviews a variety of documentation. Reviews shift data, flow recordings and other operational reports. Reads and interprets blueprints, schematics, sketches and drawings of equipment and assemblies. Performs manual labor tasks associated with maintenance and repair activities. Installs equipment and components. Pulls wires, removes and replaces parts; gathers and transports tools and supplies. Prepares work site and cleans up after work is completed. Assists in locating and coordinating materials and purchase requisitions for replacement equipment, materials and parts. Reviews equipment contracts for vendors, part number, warranty eligibility, prepares, and submits required documentation as needed. Operates a variety of machinery, equipment, and tools associated with department projects, which includes calibration test equipment, common hand tools, volt and amp meters. Qualifications Required minimum qualifications:   Education:   High S chool diploma or G ED   Experience:   F ive (5) years of experience in maintaining and repairing process control ins truments and automated systems.     P referred (in addition to minimum qualifications):   Two-year diploma or certificate in instrumentation, electrical, or electronics technology.     Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:    Considerable knowledge of progressive management concepts, mastery of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation skills.   Considerable knowledge of BAT theories and devices.   Considerable knowledge of the water systems of Augusta and EPD rules and regulations.     Good communication skills, both oral and written.   Demonstrated ability to work independently or with a team.   Established ability to perform under high stress and remain congenial.   Must have ability to actively listen to others to understand their needs and work well with others.     Certification (s): Must   possess the ability to obtain and maintain the followin g certifications: International Society of Automation (ISA) Certified Control Systems Techn ician (CCST) Level I, and the Fiber Optic Installer within eighteen (18) months of employment or promotion.     License: Possession of a valid driver’s license with good driving history. If state license is other than Georgia or South Carolina, applicant must obtain a license in Georgia or South Carolina within 30 days of employment.     Performance Aptitudes:   Data Utilization:  Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data. Includes exercising discretion in determining data classification, and in referencing such analysis to established standards for the purpose of recognizing actual or probable interactive effects and relationships.   Human Interaction:  Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.   Equipment:  Requires the ability to overhaul, restore, renovate, construct, and/or rebuild equipment, machinery, or objects, requiring adherence to prescribed standards and specifications. Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of the same equipment, machinery, and/or objects.   Verbal:  Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.   Math:  Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.   Functional Reasoning:  Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.   Situational Reasoning:  Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.   Physical Abilities:  Tasks require the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and that may involve the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately he avy objects and materials (20-75 pounds).   Sensory Requirements:  Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.   Environmental Factors:  Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, machinery, or electric currents.     This position requires staff call up in emergency situation Travel from office to other locations is required of this position Percentage of travel is less than 50%   The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.       Salary $51,371.00