The profession of a locksmith dealing with instrumentation is becoming increasingly relevant every day. What is the reason? This will be discussed later.
Who is the instrumentation manager?
In almost any enterprise, there are many different devices, sensors, meters and other technical devices. All such equipment must be followed by someone. The instrumentation and adjustment engineer is the same specialist who is able to control the safe and efficient operation of all devices available in the production. So, a professional is obliged to conduct periodic inspection of equipment, its high-quality repair or replacement.
It is immediately worth noting that the profession in question is not so simple. After all, a competent specialist should have a fairly wide pool of knowledge, skills and abilities. Without all this, it will not be possible to carry out their work functions in a quality manner.
What should the instrumentation adjuster know?
The profession has as many as seven categories, and therefore the knowledge of specialists with different qualifications can vary significantly. However, it is worth highlighting the most basic points that are enshrined in the special job description of the employee. Here is some of them:
- fundamentals of technological methods of metalwork;
- device working tool and its purpose;
- techniques, methods and means of working with springs in hot or cold condition;
- methods for performing locksmith work;
- basics of electrical work;
- wire connection basics;
- properties of tinning materials;
- safety fundamentals, methods and means of protection at work.
...And much more. It is also worth citing the basic practical skills that an employee should possess. Among them:
- performing locksmithing;
- proper use of tools;
- high-quality soldering;
- elimination of defects, etc.
Thus, the fitter for instrumentation and automation should have a fairly large supply of knowledge and skills. Moreover, this employee must constantly develop his knowledge and skills. After all, progress does not stand still, and working equipment is constantly being improved.
Instrumentation Manager Rights
The specialist in question, like any other officially working person, has a certain range of rights. What are these rights? How and when can they be implemented? The instrumentation and adjustment engineer, according to the special job description, has the right:
- constantly improve their skills and professional skills;
- require management to have the necessary documents or tools;
- draw up all necessary benefits or social guarantees;
- timely receive wages in full;
- to offer the bosses various kinds of ideas or plans for improving the organization.
Above were mentioned only the most basic rights that the specialist in question has.
Responsibility of the instrumentation manager
The fitter for instrumentation and automation has not only rights, but also a certain amount of responsibility for some of his deeds. What in this case is fixed by a special job description? Here are the main excerpts from this document:
- the employee bears disciplinary responsibility for staying at the workplace in a state of drug or alcohol intoxication;
- the employee is obliged to bear responsibility for the complete non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of his basic work functions and duties.
In addition, the employee is responsible for:
- for causing the organization material damage;
- for committing offenses or crimes at the workplace;
- for conflicts or inciting hatred in the work team.
Thus, the instrument control engineer, like any other employee, is required to bear disciplinary, administrative or criminal liability for a certain type of act, depending on their severity and scale.
Education required for work
How and where do you need to study in order to get the profession of "Instrument Adjuster"? Education for this profession is almost everywhere, and getting the education necessary for the specialty will not be difficult. So, the specialty of the same name is present in almost any technical school or college, which can be entered on the basis of 9 classes of the school. The duration of training is about 3-4 years. However, it is worth noting that there are special courses where you can get a qualification much faster. True, they are far from everywhere; but the number of disciplines and curricula in comparison with an educational institution is not very different.
Among the necessary training cycles for education are:
- educational practice;
- Physical Culture;
- professional certifications.
On the 2nd and 3rd category in the profession
A single tariff-qualification reference book characterizes the profession in question as a job having seven categories. For each skill level there is a range of responsibilities and functions. The 2nd and 3rd categories in the profession are, one might say, initial. Here, as a rule, only college graduates, workers with little experience, etc. are concentrated here. Here are examples of work characteristic of a specialist with a 2nd or 3rd category:
- work with large relays, distributors and regulators; their assembly and repair;
- assembly and calibration of copper or platinum resistance thermometers;
- assembly, repair and adjustment of compact thermocouples;
- manufacturing, repair and commissioning of various degrees of complexity of clamps;
- drilling, grinding, expanding, pins and other work with gears, bushings, locating rings, screws, etc.
About the 4th and 5th category in the profession
The unified tariff-qualification reference book contains indications of job descriptions for specialists of the 4th and 5th categories. It is in these documents that the basic examples of the work of specialists are fixed. Here are the approximate types of work that a mechanic with 4th category should carry out:
- major or current repairs of scale commodity or truck scales with a pointing device, bunker or analytical scales;
- repair or restoration of arithmometers;
- replacement of necessary parts in autoregulators;
- inspection, repair or adjustment work.
The instrumentation adjuster having the 5th category is able to carry out works of the following type:
- repair and alignment of sights;
- replacement of gear axles;
- balancing of mobile devices;
- repair of assembly tables;
- revision of polarized relays, etc.
About the 6th and 7th category in the profession
The ranks of the instrumentation and adjustment engineer indicate a lot: the level of education, work experience, professional skills, etc. The 6th and 7th levels of qualification are considered quite important and prestigious.
What types of work are typical for specialists with 6th grade?
- Adjustment on the existing equipment of autoregulators and heat measuring devices.
- Repair of electronic equipment.
- Works with automatic portion weights.
- Work with carriage model weights.
- Repair oscilloscopes.
- Works with magnetic amplifiers.
- Repair, commissioning and commissioning of various electronic select devices.
What types of work are typical for a specialist with 7th grade? Here are some examples:
- testing and verification of microprocessor devices (pressure sensors, differential pressure gauges, etc.);
- verification and testing work with gas analyzers, measuring instruments (moisture, salt, pressure, etc.).
About the 8th category in the profession
The specialist with the eighth category is considered the most important and experienced specialist in production. Naturally, this kind of employee is endowed with particularly complex functions. What does the professional standard fix in this case?
The fitter of the instrumentation and automation equipment with the latest qualifications, in addition to managerial duties, must also:
- compile and maintain programs of microprocessor controllers, regulators and other devices;
- select the necessary characteristics that would meet the effective, but at the same time economical and optimal operation of the equipment;
- check, test and put into operation level gauges, recorders, vibrometers, instruments with intelligent pressure sensors, paperless recorders, computer-based devices, etc.
A specialist may have many other functions, but here everything will depend on the orders of the authorities and the place of work.