Instrument Technician II
Calcasieu Petrochemicals · Westlake, LA
Mar, 2022 · Present
Own day-to-day maintenance for 1,800+ field devices on two continuous polymer units (pressure, temperature, flow, level, and analytical).
Calibrate and document SMART transmitters and control valves to plant standards; cut chronic false trips on a reactor feed loop by 40% after a systematic orifice and impulse-line review.
Lead instrument scope during annual turnarounds: plan isolations, loop checks, and SIMOPS with operations; zero instrument-related start-up delays on last two outages.
Commission new Foundation Fieldbus segments and update P&IDs / loop sheets in the plant document control system.
Mentor two apprentices on safe live-loop work, HART communicators, and grounding practices; co-authored a toolbox talk on wet-leg freeze protection.
Instrument Technician
Sabine River Industrial Services · Lake Charles, LA
Jun, 2019 · Feb, 2022
Performed planned and emergency call-outs across refining and midstream client sites in Calcasieu Parish.
Diagnosed 4–20 mA and discrete I/O faults at the marshalling cabinet and in the field; restored critical level trips on tank farms within SLA windows.
Built as-found/as-left calibration records in Maximo and supported PSM MOC packages with red-line markups.
Assisted DCS engineers with point configuration and factory-acceptance loop checks for a tank-gauging upgrade.
Instrumentation Apprentice
Gulf Coast Process Controls / NCCER program · Sulphur, LA
Aug, 2016 · May, 2019
Completed NCCER Industrial Instrumentation Levels 1–4 while rotating through fab shop, bench calibration, and field crews.
Installed conduit, tubing, and instrument stands to isometric drawings; assisted with hydrostatic tests on impulse lines.
Bench-calibrated pressure and temperature transmitters before field install; maintained calibration gas inventory for analyzers.