SCADA Instrumentation Technician - Southwest Reclamation Facility

Work Location: 5101 65th Street West, Bradenton, Florida 34210

Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:00am to 3:30pm

Expected Starting Hourly Range: $27.61 - $34.51

This classification performs a variety of advanced technical duties related to operating, maintaining, installing and troubleshooting instrumentation, process control and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for the County's waste/water treatment plants or wastewater lift stations system.

Indoor/Outdoor situation; high noise environment while performing certain responsibilities. Lifting equipment up to 50 lbs. alone; up to 100 lbs. with assistance.

• Facilitate/perform the implementation, coordination, supervision and maintenance of the SCADA Network.
• Configure, document and program the automation and control systems.
• All control aspects of in-house projects including design, programming, simulation, testing and start-up.
• Perform general electrical work such as program VFDs, troubleshoot motor control panels and pull wire occasionally.
• Perform preventative and corrective maintenance of instrumentation of waste/water treatment plants, lift stations, and related facilities.
• Make necessary adjustments and calibrations of instrumentation by using prepared chemical standards and portable electronic meters and related calibration equipment.
• Install new equipment and wires units according to electrical codes and schematics and diagrams provided; troubleshoot and make repairs to all existing equipment.
• Use test equipment such as multi-meters, digital voltmeters, digital calibrators, digital logic probes, oscilloscopes, SWR meters, TDR analyzers, frequency measuring meters and other pertinent electrical and electronic measuring devices.
• Calibrate existing electrical equipment instruments with the use of calibration equipment mentioned above.
• Service and repair hydraulic, pneumatic, hydro-pneumatic and elector-pneumatic instrument/control systems.
• Prepare necessary records and reports; prepare drawings, sketches and schematics.
• Install, repair, maintain, and configure the radio telemetry system for all Manatee County lift stations, booster stations, monitoring wells, and elevated tanks (Demands on Area of Assignment).
• Install, diagnose, repair lift station control panels or RTU control panels as necessary when electricians need assistance (Depends on Area of Assignment).
• Install, maintain, diagnose and repair field instrumentation used in control systems or for data acquisition in the telemetry system. These may be, but are not limited to flow meters, pressure transmitters, level sensors, rain gauges, vibration sensors inclinometers, proximity switches, turbidimeters, pH sensors, chlorine, and ammonia analyzers. (Depends on Area of Assignment).
• Design new control systems and new data acquisition monitoring applications when necessary.
• Bench test radio equipment to determine if it needs repair.
• Perform any training that needs to be given to new instrument technicians, as well as training of electricians and mechanics on any equipment.
• Performs other related duties as assigned, including participation in emergency or disaster response activities, as required and consistent with the employee’s qualifications, essential job functions, and applicable federal and Florida law.

High school diploma or equivalent certificate of competency.

Prior courses or technical training in electronics, instrumentation and controls required.

Minimum of Five (5) years' experience in repair, inspection, adjustment, and calibration of electronic controls and instrumentation.

Equivalent combinations of education, training, and experience may be considered in meeting the minimum qualifications for this position.

PLC & HMI programming, instrumentation, computer science and industrial controls highly desired.

• Knowledge of principles and practices of SCADA systems, specifically as applied to preventative and corrective maintenance of SCADA, including its electrical, electronic, pneumatic, microprocessor and other instrumentation components at water treatment plants.
• Knowledge of methods of operation of modern equipment and instrumentation of water and wastewater treatment plants and related facilities and of work hazards and appropriate precautionary measures.
• Knowledge of PLC and SCADA programming with Rockwell (RSLogix 500, Panelview, Device Net), Citect, Siemens and DFS.
• Knowledge of databases, ODBC, SQL, Microsoft Excel, Windows OS.
• Knowledge of networking, switches, radios, wireless communication, fiber optics, ethernet com.
• Knowledge of 4-20mA principles and HART communication.
• Knowledge of VFDs and soft start programming, installation and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of antenna theory and related test equipment used to diagnose transmit/receive problems with radio telemetry systems.
• Knowledge of tagging conventions, data logging and reporting, Boolean logic and symbol conventions.
• Knowledge of external paging,…