Electrical & Instrumentation Technician

Hybrid-based occupation
Onet code: 17-3032.01

31

Skills

400h

On-the-job training
Classroom Instruction Topics
  • Industrial Instrumentation
  • Principles of Electronics II
  • Programmable Logic Controls I
  • Principles of Electronics I
  • Programmable Logic Controls II
  • Industrial Troubleshooting
On-the-job Training
  • General Safety Qualifications
    • Understands Emergency Procedures: evacuation, muster point, exit points.
    • Locates eye-wash/safety showers stations
    • Identifies location of fire extinguishers and fire hoses
    • Knows how to activate a fire alarm
    • Knows where exit points are located for shipping warehouse
    • Knows where the evacuation muster point is located
    • Wears appropriate PPE, and can explain PPE required when dealing with electricity
    • Understands, explains in depth, and uses "Lock out/Tag out" and access LOCO on the internet
    • Understands and located SDS sheets
    • Can explain safe work practices when dealing with electricity
    • Can identify common electrical hazards
    • Can explain and demonstrate how to determine if voltage is present and at what level
    • Can explain what an arc flash is
    • Can explain the arc flash boundary
    • Can explain hazards of arc flash
    • Can explain the difference between 480v, 4160v, and 15kv electrical buckets found in any electric rooms
    • Demonstrate understanding the severity of electrical shock
    • Can locate MCC room and explains what MCC stands for, what is in MCC room, and why MCC room is important
    • Can clearly explain an understanding of the difference between qualified and unqualified person
  • General Electrical Maintenance
    • Service to maintain existing electrical and electrical related equipment, including plant lighting and receptacle circuits, motors, starters, relays, push buttons, limit switches, special control switches, timers, counters, motor control panels, transform
    • Maintain test equipment needed to do this servicing, to include VOM voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters, brush records and other test equipment
  • Electrical Construction & Installation of Electrical Equipment
    • Install new electrical equipment including lighting and power circuits, layout of conduit and fixture location for efficient lighting and conduit economy, bending and threading conduit, installing proper hangers and pulling sires.
    • Install and hook up motors, control cabinets, switches, bus bar work, equipment and any electrical equipment of high or low voltage
  • Electrical Maintenance and Troubleshooting
    • Service and maintain all electronic equipment and use the necessary test equipment to service this equipment. Including: D.C. drives, Operate, navigate, and troubleshoot programmable logic controllers, Speed indicators, Process control type equipment, Any
    • Instrument Shop: Pressure Instruments: Adjust repair and calibrate pressure gauges, Inspect and check gauges, Care of tools and use of test equipment, Install tubing and fittings, Gain familiarity with block valves, pressure transmitters, and flow meters.
    • Temperature Instruments: Work in shop and field to adjust and calibrate temperature measuring instruments: Learn operating principles of temperature instrument
    • Level Measurements: Work in ship and field on liquid level measuring and recording devices: Adjust and calibrate level measuring devices, Repair and replace damaged parts
    • Flow Measuring and Control: Work in shop and field on repair, adjustment, calibration, and inspection of flow measuring and control instruments: Mechanical and electrical devices, Variable orifice-fixed orifice-volumetric, Computation of flow data, flow o
    • Instrument Mechanisms: Learn the mechanical operation of instruments: Repair, adjust and replace worn parts, gears rack segments, hair springs, jewel bearings and clockworks, Repair and replace electrical contact and coils, Repair hydraulically operated v
    • Control Valves and Devices: Shop and field work in the adjustment of control valves, involving diaphragms, hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic valves, floats and dampers: Adjustment of pneumatic, electric and electronic controls
    • Instrument Shop: Troubleshooting and special application, general shop and field troubleshooting with instrument mechanics: Inspect, adjust, repair and calibrate miscellaneous control and recording instruments in the plant, Work on special controls, speci
calendar.svg
Get on our calendar
Not sure if WorkHands is right for you? Chat with our team today
sendEmail.svg
Send us an email
We'll get back to you shortly