Process Instrumentation Mechanic (Calibration & Controls)

Job Description

Job Description

Step into a day as our Process Instrumentation Mechanic

Sunrise in Ogden, UT finds you on the plant floor, ensuring critical chemical process controls and heat-treatment furnaces are tuned with precision. You’re the go-to pro for installing, repairing, and calibrating instrumentation that keeps production stable and compliant. By mid-morning, you’ve verified temperature and pressure loops to NIST standards, documented the results, and updated preventive maintenance logs. In the afternoon, you collaborate with Engineering and Quality on a material qualification test before prepping for an upcoming customer audit.

Where you’ll work and report

This position is 100% onsite in Ogden, UT and reports to the Senior Technical Services Manager.

What you’ll take on

• Install, troubleshoot, and repair electronic instrumentation and thermoelectric elements across pressure, flow, gas chromatograph, and pH measurement systems.
• Calibrate temperature and pressure devices to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requirements and maintain complete physical calibration records.
• Own preventive maintenance schedules and other testing logs to keep systems audit-ready.
• Maintain and organize a comprehensive library of calibration manuals.
• Rebuild and install valves, valve positioners, and other flow components.
• Partner with Engineering and Quality for material qualification/testing and participate in customer audits.
• Use electronic and pneumatic test equipment and small hand tools; work with devices such as valves, pH and conductivity probes, flow analyzers, pressure instruments, regulators, recorders, controllers, and thermal elements.
• Coordinate area activities with the central maintenance shop to minimize downtime.
• Work hands-on with wire, pneumatic tubing, fittings, valves, controllers, sensors, process equipment involving acids and chemicals, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

What you bring

• High School Diploma or GED (required).
• Five (5) years of instrumentation and controls experience, including at least three (3) in a comparable industrial environment.
• Trade/technical school education in industrial instrumentation maintenance may count toward part of the experience requirement.
• Proficiency in PLC wiring and strong maintenance/repair capabilities.

Compensation highlight

A $5,000 sign-on bonus is available for well-qualified candidates.