Automation & Instrumentation Maintenance Technologist (Heavy Industrial)

Make Uptime Your Mission

Express Employment Professionals is hiring an Automation & Instrumentation Maintenance Technologist to safeguard reliability across a demanding mining operation. If you thrive on solving electrical and controls challenges and believe safety is non‑negotiable, this is your arena.

Is This You?

• Do you insist on a formal safety inspection of your area every shift—and more often when conditions change?
• Can you quickly isolate faults with portable test gear and internal diagnostics, then return instrumentation to spec?
• Are you comfortable installing PLCs, SCR drives, recorders, and indicating instruments during upgrades and rebuilds?
• Will you keep housekeeping tight to eliminate slip, trip, and fall hazards?
• Are you prepared to operate mobile equipment once you’re MSHA task-trained and cleared?

What You’ll Do

• Inspect, troubleshoot, service, and repair electrical, electronic, and instrumentation assets across the site.
• Perform preventive maintenance and routine checks on controls, recorders, gas analyzers, and automatic weight devices.
• Replace faulty components to restore accuracy, reliability, and process integrity.
• Support new construction and retrofits by installing control hardware and commissioning systems.
• Build and maintain your required tool set within 90 days of hire (tool list provided).
• Execute work in full compliance with MSHA, federal and state regulations, and company policies.

Core Capabilities

• Electrical strength and troubleshooting mindset.
• Working knowledge of instrumentation—or strong aptitude and willingness to learn.
• Basic computer literacy with the ability to pick up controls programming concepts.
• Reliable attendance; able to self-direct and also follow instructions effectively.

Experience That Matters

• 4+ years as an electrician in mining or heavy industry.
• Use of electrical meters, including megger testing on motors and cables.
• Troubleshooting AC/DC motor starters, VFDs, and power distribution.
• Hands-on with CEM systems; pressure/flow transmitters; RTDs; thermocouples.

Work Schedule

Standard weeks with rotating shifts.

Apply Today

www.expresspros.com or call 307-460-9074

Bonus Skills

• Motor replacement, repair, and maintenance
• Conveyor chain replacement
• Electrical troubleshooting and repair
• Quality control background
• Programming machine vision systems

Tools & Tech

• PLCs
• Conveyor systems