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This job was published 3 months ago

Instrumentation and Control Technician

Randstad España

This job was originally posted in Spanish and automatically translated to English. You'll most likely need Spanish to apply.

Job Description

Randstad is managing the recruitment for ALIER S.A., a leading company and benchmark in industrial sustainability, for an Instrumentation and Control Technician for its new gypsum board recycling plant at the Recycling Technology Park in Zaragoza.

As an Instrumentation and Control Technician, your mission will focus on:

- Ensuring compliance with all Safe Work Procedures (PTS) when performing maintenance activities, modifications, and/or improvements, always conducting a correct Safe Work Analysis (AST).

- Designing, planning, and executing preventive and corrective calibration programs for sensors, transmitters, control valves, actuators, and other critical instruments.

- Correctly configuring equipment (e.g., PLCs, DCSs, HMI) and control loops to ensure they operate within process specifications.

- Diagnosing and resolving accuracy, drift, or repeatability failures in instruments.

- Maintaining the calibration history and technical documentation (data sheets) up to date.

- Ensuring the traceability of measurements according to standards.

- Performing preventive and predictive maintenance of the hardware and software of the control systems (PLC, DCS, SCADA).

- Modifying and updating the control logic (programming) to improve process performance, correct errors, or adapt to new operational requirements.

- Solving complex system-level problems (troubleshooting) involving communication failures, programming errors, or interconnection issues between subsystems.

- Ensuring the integrity of the industrial control network and the cybersecurity of the I&C systems.

- Generating reports of the various maintenance activities associated with the position, as well as activities related to improvements and investment projects.

- Coordinating and managing, if necessary, external preventive and corrective maintenance services.

- Ensuring, together with the Spare Parts Supervisor, that a stock of electronic and instrumentation spare parts is maintained.

- Raising purchase requests (Solped) and following up on them.

- Contributing to the preparation of annual budgets, both for maintenance and investments.

- Contributing to the preparation of annual improvement and investment projects.

- Implementing improvements to the production process associated with investment projects and/or activities planned by the maintenance area.

Minimum Education: Higher Degree (Grado Superior) in Automation, Instrumentation and Control, or similar.

Required Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience in automation and control tasks.

Technical Knowledge:
- Advanced knowledge of PLC, Instrumentation, SCADA, Process Control, Industrial Networks
- Proficiency in Windows
- AutoCAD

Direct hiring by ALIER S.A. with a Permanent Contract.

Stability: Position within the Maintenance area, essential for the plant's operation.

Schedule: Central shift 8-9:30h / 17-18:30h

Professional Development: Active participation in the continuous improvement of the facilities and working methods.

View original advert (Spanish)

Randstad gestiona para ALIER S.A., empresa líder y referente en sostenibilidad industrial, la incorporación de un/a Tecnico/a de Instrumentación y Control para su nueva planta de reciclaje de placas de yeso en el Parque Tecnologico de Reciclaje en Zaragoza.

Como Tecnico/a de Instrumentación y Control, tu misión se centrará en:

- Asegurar el cumplimiento de todos los Procedimientos Seguro del Trabajo
(PTS) al realizar actividades de mantenimiento, modificaciones y/o mejoras,
haciendo siempre un correcto Análisis Seguro del Trabajo (AST).

- Diseñar, planificar y ejecutar los programas de calibración preventiva y
correctiva para sensores, transmisores, válvulas de control, actuadores y otros
instrumentos críticos.

- Configurar correctamente los equipos (por ejemplo, PLCs, DCSs, HMI) y los
lazo de control para asegurar que operen dentro de las especificaciones del
proceso.

- Diagnosticar y resolver fallos de precisión, deriva o repetibilidad en los
instrumentos.

- Mantener el historial de calibración y la documentación técnica (data sheets)
actualizada.

- Asegurar la trazabilidad de las mediciones conforme a estándares.

- Realizar el mantenimiento preventivo y predictivo del hardware y software de
los sistemas de control (PLC, DCS, SCADA).

- Modificar y actualizar la lógica de control (programación) para mejorar el
rendimiento del proceso, corregir errores o adaptarse a nuevos requisitos
operativos.

- Solucionar problemas (troubleshooting) complejos a nivel de sistema que
involucren fallos de comunicación, errores de programación o problemas de
interconexión entre subsistemas.

- Asegurar la integridad de la red de control industrial y la ciberseguridad de los
sistemas I&C.

- Generar informes y/o reportes de las distintas actividades de mantenimiento
asociadas al cargo, así como actividades relacionadas a mejoras y proyectos
de inversión.

- Coordinar y gestionar, de ser necesario, servicios externos de mantenimiento
preventivo y correctivo.

- Asegurar, en conjunto con Encargado de recambios, mantener stock de
repuestos electrónicos y de instrumentación.

- Levantar requerimientos de compra (Solped) y hacerles seguimiento.

- Contribuir en la preparación de los presupuestos anuales, ya sea de
mantenimiento como de inversiones.

- Contribuir en la preparación de los proyectos de mejora e Inversiones anuales.

- Implementar mejoras al proceso productivo, asociados a proyectos de inversión
y/o actividades planificadas por el área de mantenimiento.

Formación Mínima: Grado Superior en Automatización, Instrumentación y Control, o similar

Experiencia Requerida: Mínimo 2 años de experiencia en labores de automatización y control.

Conocimientos Técnicos:
- Conocimiento Avanzado PLC, Instrumentación, SCADA, Control de Procesos, Redes Industriales
- Manejo de Windows
- AutoCAD

Incorporación directa por empresa en ALIER S.A, con Contrato Indefinido.

Estabilidad: Puesto dentro del área de Mantenimiento, esencial para la operación de la planta.