# Instrumentation & Controls Technician (Power Plant) - Memphis

**Company**: SpaceXSI
**Location**: Southaven, MS
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

SpaceXSI is seeking an Instrumentation & Controls Technician to keep the controls and field instruments reliable on its on-site power plant in the Memphis region. The plant supplies power for high-density AI supercomputing facilities and must stay online 24/7.

As an Instrumentation & Controls Technician, you will calibrate, troubleshoot, and repair instruments and control systems on gas turbines and generators, balance-of-plant, fuel gas and process/fluid systems, water, compressed and instrument air, HVAC, and cooling.

Responsibilities:

- Calibrate, test, troubleshoot, and repair field instruments and final elements

- Troubleshoot turbine, generator, and balance-of-plant control systems

- Find and fix trips, alarms, and bad instrument readings

- Run loop checks and functional checks during start-up, shutdown, commissioning, and outages

- Read and work from P&IDs, loop sheets, wiring diagrams, cause-and-effect charts, and control logic

- Complete calibrations and repairs to procedure, and record as-found/as-left results and work-order closeout in the CMMS

- Identify repeat instrument and controls failures and correct the cause

- Use AI tools to troubleshoot faster and simplify calibration records, procedures, and shift handoffs

- Follow SpaceXSI safety procedures

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- High school diploma or equivalency certificate

- 3+ years of hands-on instrumentation and controls maintenance in a power plant, generating station, or other high-reliability industrial facility

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Experience with gas turbine or generator controls from more than one manufacturer

- Experience with PLCs, turbine control systems, and a plant DCS or equivalent control system

- Experience calibrating and troubleshooting 4–20 mA loops, HART devices, control valves, and instrument air

- Experience with fuel-gas, water, or balance-of-plant process instruments

- Ability to read P&IDs, loop sheets, electrical schematics, and control logic

- Experience with LOTO and NFPA 70E / arc-flash practices

- Experience using a CMMS

- Experience supporting commissioning, outages, or trip investigations

- Associate’s degree or technical certificate in instrumentation, controls, or a related field

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

- Willingness to perform hands-on work in all environments

- Remain focused while working in hazardous environments

- Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted

- Valid driver’s license

## Skills

### Required
- instrumentation
- controls
- power plant
- gas turbine
- generator
- PLC
- turbine control systems
- DCS
- calibration
- troubleshooting

### Nice to have
- gas turbine or generator controls
- PLCs
- fuel-gas
- water
- balance-of-plant process instruments
- LOTO
- NFPA 70E / arc-flash practices
- CMMS

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