Senior Instrumentation Technician – Water & Wastewater

Senior Instrumentation Technician - Water & Wastewater

Process Instrumentation | Chlorine | Turbidity | pH | DO | Flow | Level | Calibration | Commissioning

Water & Wastewater | €60,000-€70,000 DOE + Company Vehicle + Pension (39 hours per week)

RIGHT. Group, Castleisland, Co. Kerry | Kerry & Munster | Permanent

Are you an Instrument Technician who knows water and wastewater instrumentation?

We're looking for an experienced Water & Wastewater Instrumentation Technician who has hands-on experience calibrating, commissioning and fault-finding process instrumentation and analysers on water or wastewater treatment plants.

This isn't a general electrical role.

We're specifically looking for someone who understands the instruments that measure and control the water treatment process - and who is confident taking an instrument from installation, through calibration and commissioning, to a fully proven and documented system.

If your experience includes chlorine analysers, turbidity, pH, flow, level, pressure, temperature, dissolved oxygen and other process instrumentation, this could be the role for you.

What you'll actually be doing

You'll work directly on water and wastewater treatment infrastructure throughout Kerry and Munster, responsible for the installation, calibration, commissioning and fault-finding of process instrumentation.

Your work will include:

• Process Instrumentation
• Chlorine / residual chlorine analysers
• pH analysers
• Turbidity analysers
• Dissolved oxygen
• Conductivity
• Suspended solids
• Ammonia
• Flow measurement
• Level measurement
• Pressure
• Temperature

You'll be expected to understand not just how to wire an instrument, but what the instrument is measuring, how it should be calibrated and how the measurement relates to the treatment process.

Calibration & Commissioning

• Carry out routine and commissioning calibration of process instruments.
• Configure instrument ranges, scaling and outputs.
• Verify 4-20 mA, digital and communication signals.
• Perform loop checks from field instrument through to PLC/SCADA.
• Carry out instrument verification and proving.
• Investigate inaccurate, unstable or failed measurements.
• Produce calibration certificates and commissioning records.
• Diagnose instrument faults and determine whether the problem is the instrument, installation, cabling, process or control system.

Flow & Level

• You'll have hands-on experience with technologies such as:
• Electromagnetic flowmeters
• Ultrasonic level
• Radar level
• Hydrostatic/submersible level
• Pressure transmitters
• Open-channel flow measurement

Analytical Instrumentation

This is a particularly important part of the role.

We are looking for someone who has actually worked with process analysers, including their calibration, cleaning, verification and fault-finding.

Experience with manufacturers such as Hach, Endress+Hauser, ABB, Siemens, VEGA or similar would be advantageous.

This role is for you if...

You have spent several years working on:

Water Treatment Plants Wastewater Treatment Plants Pumping Stations Process Plants

and you are comfortable walking onto a site and being responsible for the instrumentation.

You don't need to be a PLC programmer.

You do need to understand how a field instrument works, how to calibrate it, how to prove its signal and how to determine why the value on the SCADA screen doesn't match what's actually happening in the process.

What we're looking for;

Essential

• 5+ years' hands-on instrumentation experience
• Direct water or wastewater experience
• Proven experience calibrating process instrumentation
• Hands-on experience with water/wastewater analysers
• Experience with chlorine, turbidity, pH, dissolved oxygen, flow, level, pressure and temperature instrumentation
• Strong understanding of 4-20 mA instrumentation
• Experience carrying out loop checks and commissioning
• Ability to read P&IDs, loop drawings and instrument schedules
• Experience fault-finding instrumentation connected to PLC/SCADA systems
• Experience with VFDs would be advantageous
• Full driving licence
• Safe Pass

Particularly valuable experience

We're particularly interested in candidates who have worked with:

Chlorine analysers | Turbidity | pH | DO | Conductivity | Ammonia | Flowmeters | Radar/Ultrasonic Level | Pressure Transmitters

Why join Right Group?

This isn't a maintenance position where you'll be servicing the same equipment every day.

You'll work across a variety of water and wastewater projects, commissioning new equipment and working with experienced electrical, mechanical, process and automation engineers.

You'll get exposure to:

Instrumentation - Process - Electrical - PLC - SCADA - Automation- Commissioning

And as Right Group continues to grow, there is a genuine opportunity to progress into:

Senior Instrument Technician - Commissioning Lead- Instrumentation/Automation Lead

Package

• €60,000-€70,000+ depending on experience
• Company vehicle
• Pension
• Permanent position
• Full-time employment
• Training and manufacturer-specific development
• Long-term project pipeline
• Career progression
• Work predominantly across Kerry & Munster

We're looking for the person who knows this stuff

If you've spent the last few years calibrating chlorine analysers, checking turbidity, calibrating pH, proving flowmeters, commissioning level instruments and fault-finding instrumentation on water or wastewater plants, we want to talk to you.

If that's you, apply to Right Group.