Field Service Technician (Electrical/Instrumentation)

The Role

You will travel to mine and industrial sites to find faults and fix them. Breakdown response, service calls, warranty work, shutdown support, and the testing that follows a repair. Between trips you are in the Kamloops shop testing panels and supporting builds.

Expect to be away regularly. Trips run from a day to two weeks

• Responding to service calls and breakdowns, often on short notice
• Troubleshooting electrical, instrumentation and control faults to root cause
• Analyzing complex systems to understand why a process or system is not working as intended going beyond just I&C issues.
• Calibration, loop checks and functional testing
• Terminating, testing and repairing wiring, fiberoptic cables, and process tubing.
• Supporting startups, shutdowns and commissioning on site
• Writing service reports that include recommendations for future improvements.
• Working safely under site rules, permits and lockout
• Telling us what else the site needs while you are standing in it

Qualifications

• Red Seal Instrumentation or Electrical ticket, or a diploma in electrical, instrumentation or controls
• Willingness to travel
• Valid driver's licence and a clean abstract
• Ability to meet site access requirements, including drug and alcohol testing where clients require it
• Troubleshooting judgement, and the discipline to work safely with nobody watching
• Clear written reporting

Additional Skills: You do not need all of these. A good mix of them is what we are hiring on.

• PLC/DCS/SCADA experience: DeltaV, Rockwell, 800XA, Schneider/Modicon preferred
• Industrial networking, Ethernet/IP, Profibus, Modbus, managed switches
• Fiberoptic termination, splicing and testing
• Process instrumentation: flow, level, density, pressure, analytical
• Mineral processing: crushing, grinding, flotation, thickeners, tailings, water treatment industry experience
• Variable frequency drives commissioning and troubleshooting
• Testing and troubleshooting medium voltage equipment, switchgear and drives
• Protection relays, setting and testing
• Generators, troubleshooting and setting up paralleling and transfer schemes
• MCCs and low voltage switchgear repair and refurbishing
• Commissioning and startup across process environments.

Compensation

• $52.00 to $70.00 per hour, based on experience and qualifications
• Overtime and premium rates on extended site work
• Travel paid. Meals and accommodation covered when you are away
• Company vehicle for site trips
• Cell phone provided
• Extended health and dental

About Us

Tusk is a Kamloops manufacturer, engineering firm and systems integrator serving the mining and resource sector. We design-build electrical and control systems for mine process applications, we run process, mechanical, electrical and control engineering under one roof. When you are on site with a problem you have multidisciplinary engineering behind you.

Tusk Automation Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We thank all applicants and will contact those selected for an interview.