Journeyman Instrument Fitter

Job Title

Plans layout, fabricates, assembles, installs and repairs instruments, both electronic and pneumatic, including primary piping and tubing.

Responsibilities

• Selects type and size of pipe and related material according to job specification
• Installs, repairs, maintains, and adjusts indicating, recording, tele-metering, and controlling instruments and test equipment, used to control and measure variables, such as pressure, flow, temperature, motion, force, and chemical composition, using precision instruments, and hand tools.
• Measures, cuts, bends, threads, assembles and installs primary piping and tubing
• Reads and interprets instructions and documentation and plans work activities.
• Moves materials and equipment to work locations and sets up work sites
• Follows all hazardous waste handling guidelines.
• Completes records, maintains tools and equipment, and performs various clean-up and housekeeping activities.
• May disassemble malfunctioning instruments or test equipment and examine and test mechanisms and circuitry for defects.
• Replaces or repairs defective parts, using hand tools.
• Reassembles instrument or test equipment, and tests assembly for conformance to specifications, using instruments.
• Inspects instruments and test equipment periodically and adjusts calibration to ensure functioning within specified standards.
• May calibrate instruments or test equipment according to established standards.
• Installs associated support structures, components and tubing.
• Responsible for observing and complying with all safety and project rules. Performs other duties as required.