Instrumentation and Control Technician

Instrumentation and control technician

  • Format: Full Time
  • Offered: Multiple intakes
  • Program Duration: 21 weeks
  • Delivery Location: Kamloops, BC

As an instrumentation and control technician (formerly known as an industrial instrument mechanic) you’ll build, calibrate, commission, program and maintain industrial control systems. Positions are needed in virtually all industrial enterprises, where you’ll be responsible for installing instruments to monitor various process parameters like temperature, pressure and flow—used by a programmed controller to command final control elements, such as valves and motors, to meet process specifications.

What you'll learn

  • How to program Programmable Logic Controllers (industrial computers) using Ladder Logic and Instruction List programming languages.
  • How to develop and build industrial control circuits.
  • How to disassemble, repair and rebuild valves, regulators, actuators and other components; and calibrate various instruments.

What you'll graduate with

  • Instrumentation and Control Technician Foundation Certificate of Completion
  • The in-school technical training for apprenticeship level 1
  • 325 hours of work-based training towards apprenticeship

What makes TRU’s program unique

  • New facilities in TRU’s Industrial Training and Technology Centre including an electrical and electronics lab, calibration and valve lab, programming lab, and process control lab fitted with a full-class set of sophisticated Pignat process-control trainers.
  • Access to a unique collection of real and functional processes, including a multi-fuel power plant with DeltaV DCS, a pilot water treatment facility with SCADA and a waste water treatment facility.
  • Because facilities and equipment are new and state-of-the-art, students learn and train on equipment actually used in the field.

Admission Requirements

  • Youth Train in Trades - in grade 12 (all core grad requirements completed apart from CLC A and B, and senior electives)
  • Minimum English 12 or English First Peoples 12 – 67% plus
  • Minimum Foundations of Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11 – 67% plus
  • All Core grad requirements completed: 
    • Senior Grad requirements include: English 12 or English First Peoples 12, English 11, Senior Socials, Senior Math (Foundations or Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11), and a Senior Science 
    • All grade 10 grad requirements