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Role Description

Picarro, Inc. has an opportunity for a Field Engineer to install, operate, and maintain air quality and continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) and Workplace Monitoring Systems (WMS). This position will support Picarro’s Environmental Solutions business and may require up to 70% travel, including international.

This position requires good working knowledge of:

• Gas measurement instrumentation
• Electronics and circuitry
• Data communication protocols
• Interfacing with programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
• Industrial process automation
• Integration with analog and digital communications
• Mechanical functionality of gas analyzers

Other duties include, but are not limited to:

• Procedure writing
• Parts inventory control
• Installation and operation of stack sampling systems
• Multi-point workplace air monitoring
• Fenceline and ambient air monitoring systems

Experience with continuously monitoring air emission sources and industrial process gases is desired.

You will work closely with our Project Management team but will be expected to work alone on occasion once the training window has passed. An aptitude for troubleshooting equipment, systems, and data acquisition and handling software, as well as the ability to talk with clients and solve their technical problems, is desired. In addition to technical duties, there will be a requirement to assist with system assembly, performance testing, instrument calibration, repair, maintenance, and writing of environmental monitoring and quality assurance project plans.

Responsibilities

• Conduct installations of monitoring systems, including all sample handling equipment and PLC programming
• Complete critical objectives, such as quarterly quality assurance testing and daily calibration testing of differential pressure flowmeters, ultrasonic flowmeters, and hazardous air pollutant CEMS
• Communicate with Project Managers to define time and resource requirements for a project and coordinate these deadlines with clients and third-party firms
• Communicate with industrial site operations personnel to identify and fix issues
• Complete required customer safety training and comply with safety rules on customer sites
• Conduct calibrations and validation tests for installed systems as required by an established quality assurance plan or environmental regulation
• Maintain hardware and spare parts inventory
• Maintain a quarterly quality assurance schedule and document the completion of all items
• Log system downtime and emissions for trend analysis
• Train customers on installed systems' functionality, maintenance, and operation
• Develop system manuals, test procedures, and guidance documents as required
• Ability to work with our software team for programming DAS and PLC to meet their specific requirements
• Help develop and update SOPs for future project work

Qualifications

• Approximately 2+ years of experience installing and maintaining complex emissions monitoring systems or an equal amount of time working in an industrial setting in an instrumentation or electrical field
• Experience, or the ability to familiarize oneself in environmental monitoring, safety systems, CEM, fenceline, stack testing, or similar complex industrial monitoring systems a major plus for this position
• Experience with PLC and Modbus communication protocols
• Ability to travel approximately 70% of the time to our headquarters in Santa Clara, CA

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, Comparable Military Experience, or Technical Degree with job experience
• Instrumentation and Electrical Certification(s)

Requirements

The company reserves the right to require random drug testing for all applicable positions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) plans
• Life, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Vacation Policy and Paid Holidays
• Employee Referral Program
• 401K
• Social events (summer picnic, holiday party, team lunches, etc.)
• On-site Health & Wellness programs (fitness challenges, outdoor boot camp, flu shots, etc.)