Instrumentation and Controls Technician

Vicinity Kendall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 4 : 00 AM

Vicinity Energy is North America's largest provider of district energy solutions, offering low carbon energy to most of the iconic buildings you see in the skylines of Boston, Cambridge, Philadelphia, Baltimore and many other cities in the US. As a member of the communities we serve, all of us at Vicinity understand the critical role we play in reducing the impacts of climate change and being a leader in decarbonization. We are committed to net zero and eliminating our reliance on fossil fuels, but we need the best and the brightest minds on our team to help us reach our goal, not only for us as a company, but for our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Summary

The Instrument & Controls (I&C) Technician provides daily operations support to the I&C Manager, I&C Engineering Technician and Senior I&C Engineering Technician. This includes the plant's documentation and reporting needs. This is a full-time hourly position located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This position requires UWUA Local 369 Union membership and reports to the Maintenance Manager.

Responsibilities

• Assist Senior I&C Engineering and I&C Engineering Technicians, as well as contractors assigned to support plant activities.
• Maintain the Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS) in full compliance with plant procedures and protocol, including all relevant documentation.
• Assume responsibility for the safe and efficient performance of all work assigned.
• Help determine inventory requirements and maintain critical levels using computerized inventory system.
• Ensure materials, tools and equipment needs are identified and obtained.
• Help identify necessary resources required to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Install, remove, maintain, repair, test, calibrate, troubleshoot, and operate the plant instrumentation & control equipment such as (but not limited to) all process monitoring sensors, control loop devices, recording devices, Boiler Management System & Combustion Control Equipment.
• Replace charts & pens, cylinders of calibration gases throughout the plant.
• Have a basic understanding of Distributed Control Systems; be able to follow the logic diagrams and support troubleshooting efforts.
• Install new plant systems and subsystems such as (but not limited to) computer interface systems, control loops, trip circuits, and process control components.
• Maintain proficiency in state-of-the-art instrument & controls equipment and systems.
• Maintain all tools used in the performance of duties in safe and good working order.
• Maintain in a safe, neat, well organized condition the instrument shop.
• Keep the immediate work area safe and neat; ensure the work area is safe and clean at the completion of the work day.
• Report any unusual conditions.
• Be familiar with all instrument & controls equipment within the plant.
• Maintain the plant documentation (i.e. manuals & drawings), noting revisions, corrective updates, and addition of new documentation.

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Physical Requirements

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY POLICY STATEMENT VicinityNorth America is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Vicinity Kendall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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