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.