Picarro, Inc. is a leader in actionable data using optical spectroscopy, and they are seeking a Field Engineer to support their Environmental Solutions business. The role involves installing, operating, and maintaining air quality and emissions monitoring systems, requiring a strong technical background and the ability to troubleshoot equipment and communicate with clients.
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
Requirements:
- 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
- The company reserves the right to require random drug testing for all applicable positions
- Bachelor's degree, Comparable Military Experience, or Technical Degree with job experience
- Instrumentation and Electrical Certification(s)