Instrumentation Controls Technician

Job description
Position: Instrumentation Controls Technician - Santa Cruz, CA

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. Through the delivery of our operations and maintenance services, you’ll make it simpler and more seamless for our municipal clients to operate safely and efficiently, empowering communities to focus on what matters most to them – people.

Join our Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) in Santa Cruz, CA as an Instrumentation and Controls Technician. The AWPF is a complex state-of-the-art facility comprising of Ozone, Membranes, Ultraviolet-Advanced Oxidation, and waste treatment processes. It is designed to treat an average of 1,500 acre-feet per year (AFY) or approximately 1.3 million gallons per day (MGD) of Secondary Wastewater Effluent to recharge the groundwater basin and combat seawater intrusion.

Jacobs is seeking to hire a full-time Instrumentation and Control Technician for the AWPF. Under general supervision of the OM Supervisor, this position performs the inspection, maintenance and repair for all equipment control circuits including electrical, electronic, pneumatic systems, and signal devices necessary to meet regulatory water compliance and production targets.

Bring your team-focus, adaptability, and commitment to excellence, and we’ll help you grow what drives you – and deliver the world’s most challenging Operations Management projects, together.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Interprets and works from blueprints, drawings, sketches, plans, and technical documents.
• Maintains the record keeping associated with all electrical, instrumentation, and controls repairs and modifications.
• Follows oral and written instructions.
• Establishes and maintains cooperative relationship with those contacted during the course of work.
• Performs the calibration and repair of all process metering devices.
• Recommends control system modifications with documented justification that will result in standard utilization of parts and materials and will reduce operating and repair costs.
• Establishes and enforces uniform electrical repair safety procedures.
• Makes modifications to as-built electrical drawings based on system modifications and update all electrical component equipment history files.
• Creates work orders to perform daily tasks using the CMMS and track work performed and inventory used on a per job basis.
• Configure new computers out of the box to be accepted onto the domain and install all necessary software packages for PLC programming and HMI/SCADA monitoring and control.
• Experienced with Allen Bradley PLC’s, Wonderware Controls Software, and others.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time.

Here's what you'll need:
• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• Associate or Bachelor degree in related field is preferred.
• Must have and maintain a valid CA Driver’s License.
• CWEA Electrical and Instrumentation Technologist Grade 1 or above is preferred.

Work Experience Needed:

Three (3) to five (5) years' experience dealing with the maintenance, repair and calibration of electrical control systems in a water or wastewater facility.

Ideally you'll also have:
• Knowledge of the methods, materials, equipment, and instruments used in the maintenance, repair and calibration of electrical and electronic control systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge in CMMS, SCADA, Windows, Allen Bradley PLC’s, Wonderware, and others.
• Ability to design and implement networking schemes and have a full understanding of IP network architectures.
• Knowledge of the principle and practices of an effective control system preventive maintenance program.
• Knowledge of standard safety principles and related state and federal laws and regulations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Words and Excel.

Working Conditions Physical Requirements:

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