Utilities Instrumentation & Control Technician

Utilities Instrumentation & Control Technician

Salary

$21.99 - $36.28 Hourly

Location

Charlotte County, FL

Job Type

Full-time

Job Number

2026-00291

Department

UTILITIES - I & C

Opening Date

09/14/2026

Closing Date

Continuous

FLSA

Non-Exempt

Bargaining Unit

IUPAT

• Description
• Benefits

How You Can Help Us Make a Difference

Put Your Technical Skills to Work for Your Community

Looking for a hands-on technical career where the work you do every day truly matters? Join Charlotte County Utilities as an Instrumentation & Control Technician and help keep the critical systems that serve our community operating safely, efficiently, and reliably.

As an Instrumentation & Control Technician, you'll perform highly skilled, hands-on work with the electrical, electronic, pneumatic, and automated control systems that support Charlotte County's water and wastewater infrastructure, treatment plants, pumping stations, and Utilities facilities. You'll have the opportunity to solve problems, work with evolving technology, and make a visible impact.

Make an Impact Every Day

If you enjoy technology, troubleshooting, hands-on work, and solving complex problems, this could be the opportunity for you.

Bring your skills to a team that helps provide the essential services Charlotte County depends on every day.

Join our team. Make a difference. Help build a stronger tomorrow.

Your Purpose & Day-To-Day Journey

What You'll Do

As an Instrumentation & Control Technician, you'll help maintain the systems behind some of our community's most essential services. Your work will include:

• Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair electrical, electronic, and pneumatic instrumentation and control systems throughout water and wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, distribution and collection systems, chlorine injection stations, and other Utilities facilities.
• Test and calibrate precision instrumentation used to monitor and control flow, level, pressure, temperature, analytical measurements, and other critical processes.
• Install, modify, and upgrade electronic instruments, automated controls, computer control systems, and system interfaces.
• Diagnose equipment and system issues, determine appropriate repairs or replacements, and help identify opportunities to modernize aging or obsolete instrumentation.
• Design, fabricate, program, commission, and document complex control system upgrades and participate in special technical projects.
• Work alongside mechanics on the installation, maintenance, testing, and repair of electrical equipment, including motors, generators, transformers, wiring systems, and fixtures.
• Read, prepare, and interpret drawings, sketches, schematics, records, and technical reports.
• Monitor system performance, recognize unusual operating conditions, troubleshoot problems, and take appropriate corrective action.
• Maintain accurate records of instrumentation installation, calibration, testing, maintenance, and repairs.
• Participate in scheduled on-call and emergency response programs to help ensure essential Utilities services remain operational when our community needs them most.

Education & Credentials That Power This Role

Education and Experience:

An equivalent combination of relevant training, education and experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent supplemented by vocational or technical training in electronics, instrumentation, and controls.
• Two (2) years of experience in the repair, inspection, adjustment, and calibration of electronic controls and instrumentation.

Licenses and/or Certificates:

• Must maintain a valid driver's license.

Extra Details You Should Know

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Stooping, crouching, walking, pulling, lifting, grasping, hearing, seeing up close, seeing far away, kneeling, reaching, pushing, talking, standing, climbing, finger movement, repetitive motions, depth perception. Frequent lifting of up to 25 pounds; occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work typically requires moderate exposure to one or more disagreeable conditions (i.e., irate customers, outdoors weather conditions, excessive noise, extreme heat, odors or dust).

RISK/SAFETY CONDITIONS

The position requires moderate exposure or risk to physical health and/or physical safety (e.g., exposure to environmentally hazardous material, heavy equipment, assault and battery, communicable disease, etc.).

Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action/ADA/Veterans' Preference and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE/RECOVERY ACTIVITIES:

All County employees are required to work before, during, or after an emergency as needed. This may include temporarily being assigned to work and performing duties outside of the normal scope of their position, location and work schedule to fit the needs of the County and its citizens.

Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action, ADA and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. As a veterans preference employer, certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such service members and veterans, who claim and meet eligibility requirements of veterans' preference, receive preference and priority in employment and are encouraged to apply. In addition, certain servicemembers may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.

All positions with Charlotte County may be subject to drug testing in accordance with the Drug-Free Workplace Program and/or County policy.

Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners offers a comprehensive benefits package to regular full-time employees.

Charlotte County Benefits & Total Rewards

Employer Charlotte, County of (FL)

Address 18500 Murdock Circle

Room 130

Port Charlotte, Florida, 33948

Phone 941-743-1260

Website https://www.CharlotteCountyFL.gov