Instrumentation Technician

Grow your career. Be the difference. Leading the commercialization of ground-breaking technology that captures CO₂ directly from air is challenging and exhilarating. As a member of the CE team, you’ll be surrounded by smart, adventurous, curious people committed to progressing our Direct Air Capture (DAC) and AIR TO FUELS TM technologies. We’re a diverse team of innovators hailing from around the world with a shared vision, purpose, and commitment to deliver large scale climate change solutions. Our headquarters is in Squamish, B.C., and our presence is expanding in many other markets around the world as we commercialize our technologies

Our culture combines our heritage as a small company with our ambitious goals. We have a passion for what we do and believe our work will have a true and lasting impact on the world. Many of our employees are drawn to CE because of the direct connection between the game-changing work we do and their own personal values.

At our core, Carbon Engineering values integrity, growth, excellence in execution, and fun. This is an environment where people matter, and contributions are noticed. Our employees work hard and are given the opportunity to learn and grow from mistakes. Diversity is embraced, and we value an inclusive work environment where every employee has an equal opportunity to be heard. We work in a dynamic environment and thrive on tackling rewarding and complex problems as a team.

Position Scope

As an Instrumentation Technician, your role is to provide instrumentation service and support for our Innovation Centre’s operations. Your primary focus will be to assist the Innovation Centre’s operations by maintaining and troubleshooting instrumentation and analyzer systems including power and signal cabling as well as enclosures, Variable Frequency Drive’s and other instrumentation equipment. Additionally, you will support the development of the plant controls system.

Key Responsibilities

Environment and Safety

Demonstrate a positive safety culture.
Maintain the plant in a safe condition in line with all applicable regulations.
Identify, report, and resolve unsafe conditions, processes or actions within the workplace.
Ensure that safety instrumentation systems are maintained in good working order.
Ensure that all environmental and safety related incidents, accidents, and near misses are reported in the appropriate timeframe and investigated in line with company policy.

Technical

Carry out preventive and condition-based maintenance of the Innovation Centre’s process equipment with a focus on instrumentation, analyzers (including lab) and control equipment.
Troubleshoot and resolve instrumentation faults.
Develop maintenance schedules for instrumentation, analyzers, and control equipment.
Read and interpret blueprints, workplans and vendor O&M documentation.
Install new instrumentation as required and provide support during commissioning of new equipment.
Collaborate with Engineering in designing and planning future plant modifications.
Identify, capture, and communicate lessons learned and implement solutions where appropriate.
Develop, implement and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Instrumentation maintenance tasks.

Education and Experience

**Education**:
Interprovincial Red Seal Instrumentation and Control Technician.
Interprovincial Red Seal Electrician is an asset but not required.

**Experience**:
5-10 years of experience as an instrumentation and control technician in an industrial setting.

**Key Competencies**:
You have a safety mindset; with the ability to recognize, adhere to and implement safe practices.
You thrive on doing things that have not been done before (explorer mindset).
You have strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.