Posted 24 days ago
Instrument Technician
AL Jubail, Eastern Province, Saudi ArabiaRemoteContract
AI Summary
Maintains, troubleshoots, calibrates, and repairs plant instrumentation—including electronic, pneumatic, and safety-critical systems—to ensure safe and reliable refinery operations.
About this role
Eram Talent is hiring for Instrument Technicians for one of their prestigious petrochemical client in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, calibrating, and repairing plant instrumentation—including electronic, pneumatic, and safety-critical systems—to ensure safe and reliable refinery operations.
Responsibilities
- Safety & Maintenance: Follow plant safety standards, recognize hazards, carry out preventive maintenance (PM) procedures, and maintain clean work areas and workshop tools.
- Troubleshooting & Overhauling: Diagnose and repair pneumatic/electronic instrument issues. Overhaul control valves, controllers, Rosemount smart transmitters, boilers, and furnaces.
- Calibration & Loop Tuning: Calibrate plant equipment to ISO standards, tune field controllers/PID settings, and service analytical instruments (O2, CO, CO2, pH, and conductivity meters).
- Critical Systems Maintenance: Test safety-critical devices, Emergency Shutdown (ESD) interlocks, turbine/compressor instrumentation, Bently Nevada monitoring systems, and fire/flame detection systems.
- Technical Drawings: Read and interpret P&IDs (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams) and instrument loop drawings.
Requirements
- Education: 2-year Technical Diploma or Industrial Trade Training Certificate from a recognized institution.
- Experience: 6 to 8 years of hands-on work experience as an Instrument Technician in a refinery or petrochemical plant.
- Documentation: Experience certificate from a process or construction company.
- Language: Good command of English (ability to read, write, and speak clearly).
Skills
Analytical Instruments (O2, CO, CO2, PH, Conductivity Meters)Bently Nevada Monitoring SystemsBoiler And Furnace InstrumentationControl Valve OverhaulEmergency Shutdown (ESD) InterlocksField Controller CalibrationFire/flame Detection SystemsInstrument Loop DrawingsISO Calibration StandardsP&ID ReadingPID TuningPlant Safety StandardsPneumatic/electronic Instrument TroubleshootingPreventive Maintenance (PM) ProceduresRosemount Smart TransmittersTurbine/compressor Instrumentation
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