Specific skills necessary include: • Preventive maintenance on AC and DC motors, including changing direction, inspecting, and testing brush gear and windings • Troubleshooting, transformer ratings, and overcurrent protection • Connections for various transformers • Calibration, proper repair, precision installation, successful start-up, and reliability of all related facility equipment • Instrument flow, level, pressure, temperatures • Hydraulic systems, analytical instrumentation, PID controls, loop tuning, open-loop and closed-loop control • Valves such as smart, solenoid, and pneumatic positioners • Control valves (application, sizing, and selection), actuators, and limit and position switches • Starting pay ranges between $35.48 and $43.45, depending on skill level. Students from around the country call Augusta home thanks to Augusta University, Georgia Military College, Paine College, University of South Carolina Aiken, and many technical and educational institutes around Augusta's River Region.