Electrical and Instrumentation Technician
About The Position
Buckman is a privately held global specialty chemical company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The company serves customers in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors, and is committed to environmental stewardship, workplace safety, and sustainable development. The Electrical and Instrumentation Technician installs, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs plant electrical equipment, instrumentation, and control systems. The role supports reliable plant operations by performing preventive and predictive maintenance, calibrating instruments, diagnosing equipment and process-control problems, and restoring equipment to service safely and efficiently. The technician maintains accurate work orders, calibration records, electrical drawings, loop diagrams, and instrument documentation, and works with operations personnel on maintenance activities, start-ups, shutdowns, and turnarounds. The position also supports safety, regulatory compliance, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Two to three years of experience is listed in the basic qualifications; the posting also specifies a minimum of three years of industrial electrical and instrumentation experience.
- Associate degree, technical certification, military training, or equivalent experience in electrical, instrumentation, electronics, or industrial maintenance.
- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, electrical schematics, loop drawings, and technical manuals.
- Experience troubleshooting industrial process equipment.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of electrical theory, process instrumentation, and control systems.
- Knowledge of 4–20 mA, HART, Foundation Fieldbus, Ethernet/IP, and industrial communication networks.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong attention to safety, detail, and documentation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in chemical, batch-processing, pharmaceutical, food-manufacturing, or similar process industries.
- Experience with Allen-Bradley PLCs, Siemens PLCs, DeltaV, Honeywell, or other DCS platforms.
- ISA Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST) certification.
- Working knowledge of process safety management requirements.
Responsibilities
- Follow lockout/tagout, confined-space, hot-work, electrical-safety, and other plant safety procedures; perform energized work only when authorized and approved.
- Participate in safety audits, process safety management activities, and incident investigations, and maintain good housekeeping and safe work practices.
- Perform scheduled inspections of motors, motor control centers, variable frequency drives, HMIs, transmitters, and control valves.
- Calibrate instruments according to schedule and verify critical alarms, interlocks, and safety systems.
- Diagnose electrical, instrumentation, control-system, process-equipment, and communication-network failures.
- Troubleshoot PLC, DCS, HMI, control-loop, and process-control issues.
- Repair or replace faulty instruments, sensors, transmitters, and electrical components, and safely restore equipment to service.
- Install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical equipment up to plant-designated voltage levels.
- Use testing equipment to diagnose electrical issues and maintain motors, motor control centers, variable frequency drives, breakers, transformers, and power-distribution systems.
- Install, calibrate, troubleshoot, and repair process instrumentation, including pressure transmitters, flow meters, level instruments, temperature sensors, control valves, and analytical equipment.
- Assist with maintenance and configuration of PLC, HMI, and DCS systems.
- Complete work orders with accurate repair details and maintain calibration, maintenance, and equipment-history records.
- Update electrical drawings, loop diagrams, and instrument documentation, and provide failure data for reliability analysis.
- Complete preventive and predictive maintenance on schedule, close work orders accurately and on time, and help reduce the maintenance backlog.
- Coordinate maintenance activities with operations personnel and support plant start-ups, shutdowns, and turnarounds.
- Train and mentor junior technicians and participate in continuous-improvement and reliability initiatives.
- Comply with applicable OSHA, NFPA 70E, process safety, environmental, and plant requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
