Instrumentation and Control Technician (Industrial Instrument Mechanic)
Description
Instrumentation and Control Technician (Industrial Instrument Mechanics) install, repair, maintain and adjust instruments used to measure and control industrial processes such as pulp and paper manufacturing and petrochemical production. These types of instruments are typically used for controlling factors like the:
flow of things such as gases or liquids
temperature of materials or stages of a process
pressure maintained during a process
level of a material used or created during a process
Instrumentation and Control Technician (Industrial Instrument Mechanics) are often employed by pulp and paper processing companies, hydroelectric power generating companies or mining, petrochemical and natural gas companies. They help these companies diagnose faults and perform preventive maintenance by inspecting and testing the instruments and systems in use. Industrial Instrument Mechanic is a nationally designated trade under the Inter-provincial Red Seal program.
Instrumentation and Control Technician (Industrial Instrument Mechanics) also calibrate components and instruments according to manufacturers' specifications and troubleshoot and tune industrial processes. Many of the instruments that they maintain are key to automating part (or all) of a manufacturing process. Because their work can affect millions of dollars of production, they are sometimes placed under tight deadlines to complete work.
Inter-Provincial Examination Information All of the Inter-Provincial examinations have an assigned number of questions based on each National Occupational Analysis (NOA) blocks and tasks. Refer to the table for an assigned number of questions per exam, the assigned number of questions per block section and the assigned number of questions per task for this trade.
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