Instrumentation and Control Technician, Apprenticeship, Full-time

Program Overview

This program prepares students for careers as instrumentation and control technicians, who install, maintain, and repair instruments used in industrial operations. Graduates are employed in various industries, including pulp and paper processing, hydro power generation, mining, and petrochemicals. The program covers topics such as instrument installation, calibration, and programming, as well as the principles of process monitoring and control.

Program Outline

Careers:

Instrumentation and control technicians install, repair, maintain, replace, calibrate and program all process monitoring and/or control instruments, including indicators, recording devices, control loops and computers. These instruments may be pneumatic, hydraulic, electronic, electrical, mechanical, nuclear, optical or chemical, and include signal transmission, telemetering and digital devices in industrial operations. Graduates are employed by pulp and paper processing companies, by hydro power generating companies, by mining, petrochemical and natural gas companies, by industrial instrument and other manufacturing companies, and by industrial instrument servicing establishments.